Forty allergies and a spreadsheet: How one woman manages it all

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Chloe Ramsay, 19, from Havant, has more than 40 allergies - including water - and has to use a colour-coded spreadsheet to keep track of them all.  SWNS

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00:00Hi I'm Chloe, I'm allergic to over 40 different kind of foods and substances.

00:08My rarest one is I'm allergic to water. Well I can drink water but

00:15it's when it touches my body so if I wash my hands or if I go for a shower or if it rains

00:23unless I'm covered in some sort of thing that is able to barrier it

00:30I will get an allergic reaction. It's like a tachycardia so it's a load of rashes on my skin

00:36and it feels like ants are crawling inside. I first discovered my first allergic reaction when

00:42I was six months old so my mum fed me potato and I completely collapsed in the high chair

00:48and went blue and then I got into Southampton Hospital and I've just been with them and then

00:56on and off pretty much since. I was in there every year every half year ish up until I was about 12

01:05I think and then I was finished with that and then I came back with the water allergy. Things like

01:10fruit that I'm allergic to there's a lot of it found in desserts so sometimes you can get an

01:17ordinary chocolate cake but then they would add strawberries or raspberries on top. Things like

01:22water with the rain happening it's I get a bit scared going outside. How do you keep

01:27track of all the allergens? I have a spreadsheet on Google Sheets to keep track of like sectioned

01:34it into different colours and different sections like food, environmental, animals and so forth

01:40and I wrote down like what I'm allergic to in these sections. My biggest one is food so I have

01:46I think about 43 at the moment that are food so and then the rest are different things.

01:55I started my first dose of it's called Zola it's like an injection it was an injection for asthma

02:03but they then found it actually can help with allergic reactions so they give two to me

02:11every four weeks for six months and then I'm now self-injecting myself as of January.

02:18Well hopefully these injections sort of help everything and that this is my last course

02:25but if not then I might potentially be on these injections for life which is a bit

02:31inconvenient but at least I don't have to go to a hospital now I can do it from home

02:35and I guess allergies are just going to be an aspect of my life forever since birth.

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