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submitted for your consideration - folk remedy for anaphylactic shock
(I have no idea how to spell 'anaphalectic,' and neither does my spell-checker. ETA: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tronella fixed me up with the proper spelling! :))
In the dream the bees were in food, but they were supposed to have been prepared for cooking by having them sting something, to pull out the stingers, but the cook was inexperienced and had forgotten to do that step. I knew that when I started eating the food, but had thought that if I was careful I could just avoid eating any stingers. I didn't want to eat any of the bees, anyway, I was just picking around them. Then my lip started swelling up to three times it's normal size.eor went into "we're taking you to the hospital NOW" mode, and found an inhaler for me as my throat started closing up, which helped a little. But I wasn't scared in the least. All the time I continued saying, "It's fine, I'm alright, I'm not allergic to bees," even though my hearing was going all tinny. As I blacked out in the dream I woke up in RL, but I never once felt scared.
When I woke up I immediately started talking about the dream toeor, musing as to whether someone who's going into anaphylactic shock would have better survival chances if they could get scared. (He's used to me talking like this when I first wake up in the morning - oftentimes posing some silly question is my method of waking up, because I figure if I can start my brain and my mouth moving I'm not likely to fall back asleep.) But it made sense to me at the time, and it still does. The first thing they do at the hospital, if I remember correctly, is give you a big shot of adrenaline. If you could seriously panic about the situation you could get your own adrenaline going, and that might start fighting off the effects of the thing you're allergic to, right? But, if you drink a lot of caffeine, adrenaline rushes are not as easy to manufacture, because caffeine stimulates the adrenal gland all the time, and it gets tired. Your adrenal gland feels as though you're crying wolf all the time.
So, my hypothesis, based on a minute of thinking first thing as I was waking up, is that if you're severely allergic to something your survival chances would be better upon encountering that thing if you normally avoided caffeine. And if you could convince yourself to really freak out - "MOTHEROFGODI'MGONNADIE!!" freak out.
How's that sound?
tronella fixed me up with the proper spelling! :))In the dream the bees were in food, but they were supposed to have been prepared for cooking by having them sting something, to pull out the stingers, but the cook was inexperienced and had forgotten to do that step. I knew that when I started eating the food, but had thought that if I was careful I could just avoid eating any stingers. I didn't want to eat any of the bees, anyway, I was just picking around them. Then my lip started swelling up to three times it's normal size.
eor went into "we're taking you to the hospital NOW" mode, and found an inhaler for me as my throat started closing up, which helped a little. But I wasn't scared in the least. All the time I continued saying, "It's fine, I'm alright, I'm not allergic to bees," even though my hearing was going all tinny. As I blacked out in the dream I woke up in RL, but I never once felt scared. When I woke up I immediately started talking about the dream to
eor, musing as to whether someone who's going into anaphylactic shock would have better survival chances if they could get scared. (He's used to me talking like this when I first wake up in the morning - oftentimes posing some silly question is my method of waking up, because I figure if I can start my brain and my mouth moving I'm not likely to fall back asleep.) But it made sense to me at the time, and it still does. The first thing they do at the hospital, if I remember correctly, is give you a big shot of adrenaline. If you could seriously panic about the situation you could get your own adrenaline going, and that might start fighting off the effects of the thing you're allergic to, right? But, if you drink a lot of caffeine, adrenaline rushes are not as easy to manufacture, because caffeine stimulates the adrenal gland all the time, and it gets tired. Your adrenal gland feels as though you're crying wolf all the time. So, my hypothesis, based on a minute of thinking first thing as I was waking up, is that if you're severely allergic to something your survival chances would be better upon encountering that thing if you normally avoided caffeine. And if you could convince yourself to really freak out - "MOTHEROFGODI'MGONNADIE!!" freak out.
How's that sound?
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An interesting theory, although I have no idea about biology, so I can't really offer any helpful opinions...
Also, I didn't know that about caffeine. Hm.
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