Peanuts vs. Perfume

I am a sufferer of allergies. I am allergic to many different things, one of these many things that I am allergic to is Perfume (Fragrance). As I have aged (quite well I might add) my allergy to this substance has gotten substantially worse. The other night, when I was suffering from one of my perfume headaches, I was having a discussion with a peer of mine regarding peanut allergies and how horrible they are. I will agree that I do not wish severe allergies on any one and I'm sure that it really is not fun to have an allergy to peanuts, and the many wonderful things that peanuts are in. Personally i would take a peanut allergy over a perfume allergy any day!

Why you ask? Well let me draw a picture for you. Lets say that you are driving in a car and you have an allergy to peanuts and your passenger opens a peanut butter cracker. Instantly you heart starts to race and you wonder if you are going to go in to anaphylactic shock. Horrible thoughts of your death are running through your mind when you remember that you have windows and if you ask really nicely your passenger will probably through the crackers out the window and use the hand sanitizer that you have. Disaster avoided.

Now if you were in the car with a passenger who had release large amounts of death in a can onto themselves and you can feel that horrible headache and the tightening of your throat happening what do you do? I mean you can't ask them to throw the stuff out the window, you can't even ask them to get out of the car. You just have to suffer.

This is why I would take a peanut allergy over a perfume allergy. Peanuts are avoidable, fragrance is not.

People have decided that they are not appealing to the opposite sex without the death spray coating every aspect of their lives. Fragrance is in everything from hairspray to dish soap. Fragrance is another item that people seem to think that if a little is good then a lot is great. THIS IS NOT THE CASE!

So in an effort to save those around you suffering with this de-habilitating disorder remember that we were all blessed with our own personal scent and we should not hide those things that we were blessed with under a bush.