Amish farm kids remarkably immune to allergies, study finds

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2. I was raised in a filthy unairconditioned house (hotter than hell) with a large hairy dog.

The dust and pollen swept through and it was awful. The temp at night was 90 in the summer because of the humidity. we had a couple of cats and an 80 pound collie who was a house dog who slept on her own sofa.
We also had severe pollution from oil refineries about five miles away.

No air filters at all and only an attic fan, which just makes it hotter, like a convection oven with a fan. There was no evaporative cooling b/c of the high humidity.

I finally got a small room air conditioner in high school, so I could at least sleep through the night.

So what happened? I had a runny nose all the way through school, but nobody seemed to take it seriously.

I'm still highly allergic to cats, dogs and dust and mold and pollen and all sorts of things. So the theory that exposure to lots of allergens when you are young will strengthen your immune system doesn't work, at least not in my case.

I also have an auto-immune disease, and I constantly have red eyes and a runny nose and break out when I am gardening from touching plants.