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Tip: People with allergies to penicillin often love blue cheeses but are unknowingly harming themselves mildly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium_roque

Tip: People with allergies to penicillin often love blue cheeses but are unknowingly harming themselves mildly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium_roqueforti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium_roqueforti Yes, most of the penicillin breaks down... but..

hollerith 3y ago
Most of the penicillin breaks down before it has a chance to enter the bloodstream, but not before the components of the immune system resident in the gut and the gut's lining detect it, initiating a reaction that can involve the entire body.
- incomingpain 3y ago
  Totally correct!
sokoloff 3y ago
If I had such an allergy, I'm pretty sure I would continue to harm myself mildly, knowingly or not.
- incomingpain 3y ago
  Lol, guilty as charged. Blue cheese dressing with my wings is still a thing I do. I do the others as well like ranch, so it's not that common and I get away with it I think.
- manmal 3y ago
  Do you mean blue cheese in particular, or just anything stimulating opioid receptors?
nonethewiser 3y ago
> People with allergies to penicillin often love blue cheeses Are you saying penicillin allergies cause or influence this? Or simply coincidental, since many people in general like blue cheese. Also, supposedly penicillin allergies are often inaccurate. Either false diagnosis as a child or simply growing out of it. Guess maybe blue cheese could be a good test.
- incomingpain 3y ago
  \0/ I don't know is the correct most answer I can provide. In terms of am I allergic, oh ya, no question. Recently been minorly exposed and reaffirmed that one again. Though typically I must take it internally to really screw me up. Blue cheeses taste like it's an elixer of the gods to me. totally unlike all other things. I enjoy practically all other cheeses, but they are not quite the same thing.
InitialLastName 3y ago
I was hoping your link would have interesting information about allergic reactions to blue cheese (and possibly a trend where those allergic to penicillin are drawn to blue cheese), but for anyone who follows: no such luck.
OJFord 3y ago
I don't know anything about this, to be honest this comes from ChatGPT, but anyway it reckons: > The allergic reactions to penicillin are caused by the beta-lactam ring in the penicillin compound, which is not present in the Penicillium roqueforti mold. Do you know that to be incorrect? Just searching it seems correct about beta-lactam allergy, but I'm not sure about what's in P. roqueforti.

hollerith 3y ago

Most of the penicillin breaks down before it has a chance to enter the bloodstream, but not before the components of the immune system resident in the gut and the gut's lining detect it, initiating a reaction that can involve the entire body.

incomingpain 3y ago
Totally correct!

sokoloff 3y ago

If I had such an allergy, I'm pretty sure I would continue to harm myself mildly, knowingly or not.

incomingpain 3y ago
Lol, guilty as charged. Blue cheese dressing with my wings is still a thing I do. I do the others as well like ranch, so it's not that common and I get away with it I think.
manmal 3y ago
Do you mean blue cheese in particular, or just anything stimulating opioid receptors?

nonethewiser 3y ago

> People with allergies to penicillin often love blue cheeses Are you saying penicillin allergies cause or influence this? Or simply coincidental, since many people in general like blue cheese. Also, supposedly penicillin allergies are often inaccurate. Either false diagnosis as a child or simply growing out of it. Guess maybe blue cheese could be a good test.

incomingpain 3y ago
\0/ I don't know is the correct most answer I can provide. In terms of am I allergic, oh ya, no question. Recently been minorly exposed and reaffirmed that one again. Though typically I must take it internally to really screw me up. Blue cheeses taste like it's an elixer of the gods to me. totally unlike all other things. I enjoy practically all other cheeses, but they are not quite the same thing.

InitialLastName 3y ago

I was hoping your link would have interesting information about allergic reactions to blue cheese (and possibly a trend where those allergic to penicillin are drawn to blue cheese), but for anyone who follows: no such luck.

OJFord 3y ago

I don't know anything about this, to be honest this comes from ChatGPT, but anyway it reckons: > The allergic reactions to penicillin are caused by the beta-lactam ring in the penicillin compound, which is not present in the Penicillium roqueforti mold. Do you know that to be incorrect? Just searching it seems correct about beta-lactam allergy, but I'm not sure about what's in P. roqueforti.