How the terms Allergic and Allergy seem to be misunderstood.. re. causation..

[Guest guest]

I was recently talking with a doctor about the terms allergic and

allergy and it came to me that the terms mean very different things o

doctors and laypeople, and that the defense in mold cases is

exploiting that difference to prevent people from getting healthy

homes or justice..

It seems like to me that to a doctor, 'allergic' describes the

physiological reaction of the immune system to a substance, and its

entirely possible that a particular substance can and does provoke a

violent 'allergic' reaction in 100% of the subjects exposed (or really

poisoned) at a particular level, which makes them all dangerously sick

permanently, which means that when they are exposed to that substance

again, even at lower levels they get a recurrence of the reaction.

This is the way it is in that eosinophilic esophagitis paper.. The

nine doses of intranasal aspergillus fumigatus induced eosinophilic

esophagitis in all of the mice so treated.

100%

Most LAYpeople would not associate that PERCENTAGE with an 'allergic'

reaction.. But doctors, in particular ALLERGISTS can and DO. Because

they are talking about physiological things like antibodies, etc. NOT

the causative factors..

Basically, the allergen would be more likely to be seen as a poison by

laypeople in the context of 100% of the people being exposed at that

high level getting sick...

To laypeople, when they hear the word 'allergic' they tend to think

'low percentage of people', and often that means 'NOT ME' and then

take the bait and blame the victim and not the causer.. Even if the

poisoning was avoidable..

Even though in some situations the situation can be so intense as to

be life-threatening...

If we are going to change the situation with toxic but also 'allergic'

molds like aspergillus fumigatus and others.. we need to make people

realize that to these folks in the AAAAI, 'allergic' means very

different things than it does to us.. And that is a VERY dangerous

disconnect to allow to go uncorrected because to them, allergies can

and do effect 100% of the exposed.. and that doesn't matter..they

still use that word..