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Anyone allergic to bloodworms?
Here's my story. I just figured it out last night...duh.
Most of the fish in the tanks in my office eat frozen bloodworms. Gobies, SA Puffers, Pea Puffers, Discus, and Angels. So I buy the big 16 oz. flat packs. I smash it with a hammer and then feed the chunks. A few months ago, I started getting what I thought were mosquito bites after I fed *sometimes*. I'm right-handed, so that's my feeding hand, and sometimes after I finished feeding bloodworms, my arm and wrist would burn and itch and I'd have little welts all over. I thought it was a mosquito because that's exactly what it looked like.
What I realized last night was that I only got the "mosquito bites" when I had to reach down into the bottom of the bloodworm pack and the melting bits would get on my arm. The weird thing is, it doesn't bother my hands at all. I took an antihistamine last night after I started having a reaction and the welts were gone in about an hour.
Disclaimer: I realize that it shouldn't have taken me months to figure this out, but it looked like mosquito bites, itched, and wasn't an every day occurrence. I definitely wasn't thinking outside the box.
Anybody else allergic to bloodworms? What is it about them that causes the reaction??
Here's my story. I just figured it out last night...duh.
Most of the fish in the tanks in my office eat frozen bloodworms. Gobies, SA Puffers, Pea Puffers, Discus, and Angels. So I buy the big 16 oz. flat packs. I smash it with a hammer and then feed the chunks. A few months ago, I started getting what I thought were mosquito bites after I fed *sometimes*. I'm right-handed, so that's my feeding hand, and sometimes after I finished feeding bloodworms, my arm and wrist would burn and itch and I'd have little welts all over. I thought it was a mosquito because that's exactly what it looked like.
What I realized last night was that I only got the "mosquito bites" when I had to reach down into the bottom of the bloodworm pack and the melting bits would get on my arm. The weird thing is, it doesn't bother my hands at all. I took an antihistamine last night after I started having a reaction and the welts were gone in about an hour.
Disclaimer: I realize that it shouldn't have taken me months to figure this out, but it looked like mosquito bites, itched, and wasn't an every day occurrence. I definitely wasn't thinking outside the box.
Anybody else allergic to bloodworms? What is it about them that causes the reaction??
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