Allergic Quotes

“Early allergy textbooks described anaphylaxis as “usually acquired” and allergy as “frequently inherited.” When it was inherited, anaphylaxis was thought to be passed down only from the mother and caused only by the same substance as the mother’s allergy.[11] And while children seemed to outgrow anaphylaxis (something that we now know is more likely to happen with some allergies such as egg allergy, but less likely to happen with others like peanut or tree nut allergy), allergy was a lifelong problem.”
― Theresa MacPhail, Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World

“And it will take all of us working together to effectively to treat our condition.”
― Theresa MacPhail, Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World

“The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the stark need for us to better understand how human actions affect the microscopic world, and how our immune systems interact with it.”
― Theresa MacPhail, Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World

“You’re like a walking collection of bacteria and viruses with a smartphone and shoes.”
― Theresa MacPhail, Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World

“But the stark truth is that our immune systems aren’t faring well in the twenty-first century.”
― Theresa MacPhail, Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World

“The choices we make will determine how healthy our world is for all of our immune systems for centuries to come.”
― Theresa MacPhail, Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World

“Treatments are also difficult because each patient is different.”
― Theresa MacPhail, Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World

“Right now, as your eyes scan across this page, you are harboring more microbes than human cells. The entity that is “you” is a collection of microorganisms and cells cooperating to look like and function as a “human being.”
― Theresa MacPhail, Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World