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It's hard to wrap my head around the "allergic to yeast" thing. Yeast is present everywhere and in the very air we breath. And as the article described, once something is baked the yeast is essentially dead and inert.

Perhaps it's a quantity thing, or maybe the specific strain used in mass-market yeasts?

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My man, there are people allergic to the sun. --- Forget about that. There are people allergic to themselves.

Don't trust your brain to not fuck you up any chance it'll get. Because it will do.

Well, yeah. Allergic to self == "autoimmunity". Happens when body systems (including brain) aren't playing nice with each other. Though the brain is a major immune system organ, whatever we're thinking about at a given moment is highly unlikely to have measurable impact on immune system status.

Probably commercial baker's yeast.

Otherwise, pizza sour dough does not contain yeast other than what's naturally present in the flour. It's grown and multiplied during the process though.

There are people that are allergic to water. That one blows my mind. You are allergic to the very thing that makes up the majority of your body.

They're not allergic to water, they're allergic to chemicals on their own skin that don't get absorbed unless their skin is wet.

Common in people on a lot of medications.

Are they allergic to water, or what's in the water?

Actually, scratch that. Before that --- are they allergic or psychosomatically allergic to it?

It’s called aquagenic pruritus.

It’s not an actual allergy, more like a water-induced itching, and yeah everyone you talk to assumes it’s psychosomatic, which kinda sucks.

Lol. Most humans assume everything that doesn't have a common, socially-accepted explanation is psychosomatic.

If you have any chronic condition that affects your ability to function(surprise, most of them do), 80% of people out there will just cheerfully gaslight and abuse you without batting an eye.

It's "immune mediated", meaning that there is indeed a response by the immune system. Unsurprisingly, histamines and other inflammatory markers are detected. Sometimes anti-inflammatories can help.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquagenic_pruritus

You’re absolutely correct, my friend.

I very rarely get itchy after taking a shower. It seems to be related to the level of humidity in the air wherever I am, and also time of day. It's very weird, and I can't imagine how annoying it would be to have that happen every single time you encounter water.

Yep, that's aquagenic pruritis.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160915-the-woman-who-is...

It's not psychosomatic. But they aren't really sure what causes it.

Just think about the fact that yeast is, technically, a fungus… and that there are so many kind of fungi.

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