Allergy to smoke? - Allergies Message Board

bugmaster · 05-06-2004, 07:21 PM

Whenever I smoke a ciggarette or weed my lungs get inflamed for a week or two. I think they're inflamed because I drank Red Clover tea and I could breathe fine, and I looked it up and found it helps for inflamation of the lungs. But it comes back and I have to drink more. Ive smoked both for about four years and when I started having trouble breathing I quit for a year. But after a year I tried smoking again and its back. Could this be an allergy? Can a person develop an allergy to something that they were'nt alergic to before? And have you ever heard of an allergy lasting a week or two from one exposure? Im so scared I have emphesyma. I made an appointment to go see a pulmonary specalist but I thought I would ask you guys before. Im 18 years old. Any response is greatly appreciated.

cheryl2w · 05-06-2004, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by bugmaster

Whenever I smoke a ciggarette or weed my lungs get inflamed for a week or two. I think they're inflamed because I drank Red Clover tea and I could breathe fine, and I looked it up and found it helps for inflamation of the lungs. But it comes back and I have to drink more. Ive smoked both for about four years and when I started having trouble breathing I quit for a year. But after a year I tried smoking again and its back. Could this be an allergy? Can a person develop an allergy to something that they were'nt alergic to before? And have you ever heard of an allergy lasting a week or two from one exposure? Im so scared I have emphesyma. I made an appointment to go see a pulmonary specalist but I thought I would ask you guys before. Im 18 years old. Any response is greatly appreciated.

Yes, you can develope an allergy to something that you weren't allergic to before. I had no allergies except hayfever. Then in my senior year I developed an allergy to all dairy products. Then a year later I started having anaphalactic reactions to cigeratte smoke, perfumes, any aerosols,peanuts, walnuts, etc. My dad smoked for thirteen years when I was growing up. My mom and I where never allergic to the smoke then, but after dad quit we both developed allergies to it. So yes, you can develope them if you don't have them previously.

lslydov · 08-19-2004, 08:10 AM

Just quit smoking then, even if you aren't allergic to it it's really stupid to smoke, and deadly! I can't believe you would waste a drs time with this when you could just quit smoking! The dr will just tell you to quit and you don't need a dr to tell you that. Do what your own body is telling you and quit. Also avoid where other ppl are smoking as this will probably affect you too from the second-hand smoke.

I'm highly smoke-sensitive much more than you and just a little second-hand smoke in the street has me coughing and wheezing and suffering severe headaches so you should think yourself lucky! Your only problem is self-inflicted and you choose to do what makes you suffer! I can't go out anywhere where smoking is allowed and smoking would not even be within the realms of possibility for me (even if I was a complete idiot and wanted to do it!).

My mum smoked around me as a child and I think this is why I am like this. I was always allergic to it anyway with chest infections and headaches as a child and she still did not care enough to quit or go outside, so I hate selfish smokers, especially my mother.

You smoked for FOUR years and quit and started again and you are only 18???!!!! Good grief! Weed is illegal anyway and selling cigarettes to under 16s is illegal in the UK, I would think you had a law in the US on that too, why did you ever start smoking as a child anyway?

Emphysema is unlikely from only 4 years of smoking but possible I suppose.