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Wednesday, November, 25, 2009
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Severe Wool Allergy

I had never had a reaction to wool (my brother had a hat and blanket made of wool) until I went into the Navy.  The first day when we were given our bed linens, including a wool blanket, and the 80 of us recruits started to make our beds, I just about stopped breathing and had to be rushed to the medics (at that point we were not sure what... Read moreChevron

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An allergy is the immune system's over-reaction to a normally harmless substance called an allergen.

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