LisaLiel Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Would a person live long if the mast cells somehow trained to fire upon exposure to H2O molecules? This woman says she cannot even drink a sip of water without needing an Epi-pen injected into her yet in her pictures she is not hooked up to a bed being IV'd adrenaline and looks quite alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cuthber Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 They wouldn't live long enough to say anything. They are mainly water (all people are) so those cells would never stop firing, The charitable explanation is that she is suffering from hypochondria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewcellini Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 aquagenic urticaria comes to mind but i'm really not sure that she wouldn't be able to drink water due to it as it is an epidermal reaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaLiel Posted March 14, 2015 Author Share Posted March 14, 2015 Exactly. She has the skin reaction too, but true cases of AU (which is actually a reaction to water-soluble antigens on the skin, and not H2O) do not effect drinking. All the cases of 'water allergy' in the news contradict the symptoms of AU in that they cannot drink water also without their throat closing up and a single drop of rain can send them to the hospital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaLiel Posted March 15, 2015 Author Share Posted March 15, 2015 For some reason this pops up on DailyMail every couple months or so. And it's different people, but it's always exactly the same, they cannot touch or even take a sip of even distilled water but are fine with drinking cola etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cuthber Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Why read the Daily Mail? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaLiel Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 *Used to. Sick of articles like that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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