Cause of overreactions?

Usage examples of allergy.

There was always the fear of allergy to the local anesthetic, although developing allergy in the two hours since the first dose seemed a rather farfetched notion.

She had an allergy attack while I was gone that I knew nothing about until today.

So I spent the better part of Tuesday calling each on the phone, dropping by in person in the case of the nurse-practitioner, the allergy doctor, and our minister, to explain the situation and ask if I might give the GAL their names.

Though Kikit had gone since December without an allergy attack, the last one had left her skittish about eating anything other than what we had checked and she had checked, and even then she searched for things as she ate.

She was so proud of her good health, poor dear, never had an illness in her long life but the once and that was more an allergy than an illness.

She had cried so much in the weeks after Dusty died that she had feared that the allergy story would wear thin.

Wyrazik had not, until that time, known about his allergy to penicillin.

Since, with most patients, it was normal to use penicillin to treat pneumonia, it appeared that Townsend had either read the allergy warning in his file, or had remembered it-perhaps both.

One was a notation 130 about a penicillin allergy, which did not seem significant.

Damien would say, is closer to allergy, a morbid and sometimes violent reactivity to the semiotics of the marketplace.

Cayce, with her marketable allergy, has been brought over to do in person the thing that she does best.

An allergy to flags or eagles would have reduced her to shut-in status: a species of semiotic agoraphobia.

I contemplated food phobias, the more I became convinced that people who habitually avoid certifiably delicious foods are at least as troubled as people who avoid sex, or take no pleasure from it, except that the latter will probably seek psychiatric help, while food phobics rationalize their problem in the name of genetic inheritance, allergy, vegetarianism, matters of taste, nutrition, food safety, obesity, or a sensitive nature.

Planting new male mulberry trees is prohibited by law because their pollen is a powerful allergen, and Tucson gains profit and riches as a refuge for allergy sufferers and hypochondriacs.

She went back into the bathroom, took her allergy medicine, then grabbed her keys, stuffed them into her pocket, and opened the door.