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.
00:10Well, I can drink water, but it's when it touches my body.
00:18So 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.
00:32It's like a urticaria, so it's a load of rashes on my skin
00:36and it feels like ants are crawling inside.
00:39I first discovered my first allergic reaction when I was six months old.
00:43So my mum fed me potato and I completely collapsed in the high chair and went blue.
00:50And then I got into Southampton Hospital and I've just been with them
00:55and then on and off pretty much since.
00:58I was in there every year, every half year-ish, up until I was about 12, I think.
01:06And then I was finished with that and then I came back with the water allergy.
01:10Things like fruit that I'm allergic to, there's a lot of it found in desserts.
01:16So sometimes you can get an ordinary chocolate cake,
01:19but then they would add strawberries or raspberries on top.
01:21Things like water, with the rain happening, I get a bit scared going outside.
01:27How do you keep track of all these allergies?
01:28I have a spreadsheet on Google Sheets to keep track of, like sectioned it into different colours
01:35and different sections like food, environmental, animals and so forth.
01:40And I broke down what I've learned to do in these sections.
01:43My biggest one is food.
01:45So I have, I think, about 43 at the moment that are food.
01:50So, and then the rest are different things.
01:54I started my first dose of, it's called Zola.
01:58It's like an injection.
02:01It was an injection for asthma, but they then found it actually can help with allergic reactions.
02:08So, they give two to me every four weeks for six months.
02:14And then I'm now self-injecting myself as of January.
02:18Well, hopefully these injections sort of help everything.
02:23Um, and that this is my last course.
02:25But if not, then I might potentially be on these injections for life.
02:29Um, which is a bit inconvenient, but at least I don't have to go to a hospital now.
02:34I can do it from home.
02:36Um, and I guess allergies are just going to be an aspect of my life forever since birth.
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