Or maybe it's because milk comes from farms, and farms have chickens
and cows?
Yeah, I've never really understood that one, either.
My DD's had problems with nosebleeds for a lot of her life. No connection to allergies. We've asked her allergist about that. His explanation is that
if she's having a lot of trouble with environmental allergies, then
maybe that can cause enough irritation to maybe make them more probable (especially if she's blowing/picking frequently with a stuffy/runny nose), but other than that, there's no connection whatsoever.
I've heard nosebleeds listed
quite frequently by AltMed practitioners as a "sign" of food allergies. But that's probably just as much horse hooey as anything else that they're saying, honestly. It's like "brain fog" being a sign of food allergies... while that
may occasionally be a sign of a general allergic reaction in a person with food allergies, it's not for the direct reason that naturopaths seem to think. It's because of generalized allergy symptoms, which can elicit that kind of poor cognitive function, either because of generally making a person feel like garbage (stuffy nose, wheezing, itching, puffy eyes, etc.) or because of sedating medications taken to combat them-- but not as an isolated and specific
symptom. KWIM? That's what our allergist's explanation meant-- that is, yes, in a kid with known FA, some of these things can be subtle symptoms of low-level exposure, or just a sign of a quite-full allergy cup... but a person with "nosebleeds" doesn't really equal a reason to check them for food allergies. It's really pretty nonspecific as symptoms go.