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    Frozen Blood Worm Allergies

    Discussion in 'General Aquaria Discussion' started by CANAMONSTER, Aug 25, 2015.

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    1. Barleysoda

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      WOW!...I never heard of this until now. looks like I better start wearing latex gloves when handling my blood worms. I would get all kinds of goo from the frozen blood worms melting in my hands and I would just wipe my hands off on my pants.:D
       
      #21 Barleysoda, Nov 2, 2015
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      Yeah, I'm mildly allergic to them myself, although not near as bad as the OP. For me, it's if I touch them for more than about half a second, about five minutes later my fingers where I touched them will get hot/burny and really itchy for about half an hour then it goes away. Sucks that my fish love them so much, so I just pop them right in to a feeding bowl out of the package now and feed them with a plastic pharmacy syringe.

      I thought I was just sensitive to some chemical or preservative (which looking back doesn't make sense because I can touch frozen mysis and daphnia without a problem), but I guess it's more common than I thought.
       
      #22 divemaster99, Nov 26, 2015
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      Wow iv had red spots over my arms for a few days at a time for years. Iv changed so much soap/ washing powder changed foods and stoped eating stuff, been doctors a few times about them and never found out the cause. Maybe I just did thanks
       
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      I cant feed them at all, which sucks because fish love them and they offer great nutritional value. Even if I wear gloves and only use utensils to feed my face swells, airway constricts, and I get a wonderful red itchy rash which lasts for a couple of days. I fed them for years without issues until one day I found myself in a rather unattractive mess requiring an Epipen and some heavy doses of Benadryl for a few days. I have tried it a few time since and even in their frozen state with gloves I get a reaction.
       
      #24 MC4RKiller, Jun 4, 2016
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      Ive never actually touched the freeze dried bloodworms when i have fed...i just shake as much as i need into the lid then toss in
       
      #25 SandNukka15, Jun 6, 2016
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      I'm not sure if I'm allergic to freeze dried. I'm going to buy some blood worms again to feed some baby gars. Let's see if this happens to me again
       
      #26 CANAMONSTER, Jul 12, 2016
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      Ohk, umm try using gloves and glasses while feeding. That might work. Or the other option is to change the food, something else that your pet would love to accept. Thx
       
      #28 Manas, Jul 3, 2017
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      Damn!....this is interesting although bw does not seem to affect me after I work with it to feed my fish.
       
      #29 krichardson, Jul 8, 2017
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      I've handled bloodworms for decades with zero issues. It wasn't until sometime in my 4th decade of fishkeeping that I began to experience reactions to them.
       
      #30 Oddball, Jul 8, 2017
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