By Marion Biosse Duplan
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If you are part of the big family “allergic to pollen” sneeze non-stop from May to October, tell yourself that there is always someone worse than you. At a time when all French departments are on red alert for grass pollen, To BordeauxDimitri Bellaud is allergic to almost everything and lives on permanent “red alert”.
“Hold on, because the list is long”, warns this native of Nantes mockingly. Allergic to pollen, dust mites, strawberries, kiwi, shellfish, aspirin, codeine, including cat or guinea pig hair… At 40, this bank advisor suffers from, among other things. multiple allergies since childhood and had to adapt his daily life to his numerous intolerances.
“The treatments are all the time”
“At the moment with the pollen, the treatments, it’s all the time. I have to,’ explains the bank adviser, still following along Ventolin, antihistamines and corticosteroids. Allergic since childhood, everything accelerated in puberty.
Asthmatic since he was 7 years old, he is less afraid of the series of sneezes and endless coughs than the terrible attacks that could be fatal for him.
In a crisis, I can sneeze more than 20 times in a row. So when I’m on a date at work, I’ve learned to corner them. But it is very bad.
Suffering from one Pectus Excavatum and already affected by a dozen pneumothoraxes, one of the greatest risks of his repeated allergic attacks and causing him a new detachment of the lungs. That’s not all.
“My pharmacist adores me!”
“If I eat kiwi and strawberries, my tongue swells and I swallow! “, mimes Dimitri, who never loses his sense of humor. The soap? “To be avoided because it gives me plaques. » Animal hair? He is swelling and having trouble breathing. “My pharmacist adores me anyway! »
“When I was seven years old, I kept the school mascot: a guinea pig. I played with him for an hour and it was over, I had a swelling in my eye,” says this tall bearded man. “Since then I have a real phobia of this animal. Until you avoid the “Jardiland du Bouscat” to not see them.
So, to limit his worries, he set up a real “day-to-day logistics”: ventilation, cleaning, laundry every night, the air purifier permanently connected and the Dymista nasal spray always at hand… “My friends have a very clear protocol in case of a problem,” he adds. The list of precautions is long, as are his anecdotes.
“My allergies, I learned to live with,” Dimitri downplays. There are worse than me. Still, he insists, “Anyone with allergy problems really needs to take the time to find the habits that work for them.” Today, his best medicine is definitely his humor. According to his friends, “He should write a book! »
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