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15 Comments
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May 03, 2018
Hello,
is it possible to share this article ?
I am thinking of some fish keeping groups on FaceBook , as this is important .Thanks ,
Des.
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May 04, 2018
Bloodworms make the skin on my hand itch. I have to wash my hands thoroughly after handling them to make sure I don’t get it in my eyes.
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September 15, 2018
Just discovered today that I am allergic to these buggers. I also have adverse reactions to midge bites, so I’m guessing therein lies the connection. My eyes went red, swelled up and became intensely itchy, and my nose started running. I’ve never had a skin reaction, but I must have touched my face shortly after feeding bloodworms to my fish today – I know I touched one of the worms with my hand so I must have made accidental contact. Oops. Won’t be doing that again.
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April 02, 2019
My allergic responses have become more severe with handling blood worms. It started with sneezing, coughing, itchy throat and eyes, and now I get welps and bumps where the blood worm have had contact. I held some under the water to soak, and some floated to my upper arm, and I have welps now where they touched. They look like multiple mosquito bites, and are itchy, and white. I hold my breath with handling them, as to not breathe in the dust, and I wash my hands immediately after. But, it looks like I will need to transition to black worm. Or get my significant other to feed the bloodworms.
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April 18, 2019
I’ve discovered I’m allergic. I have a Mystus leucophasis that we semi-voluntarily adopted. The only food we’ve found he readily eats is dried bloodworms (and tankmates, but my wife says there won’t be any more of that).
I’m allergic to his tank water. If I wash it off in under 15 minutes, it’s just a hint itchy. If I wait too long, it looks like poison ivy. The only cure is to wash with vinegar and let it dry. This is very effective, by the way, so I’m posting here to share that information.
If I forget and touch my eye, it’s swollen conjunctivitis and pretty horrible. We’re still experimenting with alternate foods.
Thank you for this article.
Regards,
Michael O’ -
May 17, 2019
I am so pleased to be reading this article as I believe this is a issue I’ve been dealing with this for a year now. I’m at a breaking point as my doctor will not hear me out on this one (or anyone else). I at first thought it was a cactus dermatitis but more recently after some more research I found out about the midge fly. I’ve started to pay more close attention to my surroundings and just noticed this week little red worms coming from my bathtub (I live in a rv in an industrial area) and more on the cover of the pool I swim in. I’m located in San Carlos Ca. Please contact me as I need to know what test should be run to find out if this is indeed what I’m suffering from. I have pictures throughout the last year of the damage this has done to my skin. I can’t imagine what my insides must look like. We can go into further details hopefully over the phone with somebody as it’s a lot to type but I have experienced a whole range of symptoms over the last year and I do believe it has a incubation period. Some answers would more than be appreciated!
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July 31, 2019
I finally figured out im severely allergic to blood worms. I have had 2 swollen red eyes in which I was unrecognizable. My eyes were so puffy it looked like I got into a fight or something. My hands itch and are swelling up & it creeps up my arm. I’m so miserable right now. I’ve washed it for 20 minutes wth Dawn but it still is red tingling & spreads. I’m trying corizon & calling the dr to see if there is anything more I can do besides benadryl I’m sure. I didn’t know this was a thing til I googled to see if it was only me but I’m not alone. I feed these to my discus fish & I try very hard not to touch them but a drop of that blood makes my skin go itch like crazy!
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December 15, 2019
I am very allergic to blood worms and brine shrimp IAM not allergic to shellfish I have had to phone emergency services who confirmed that anaphylaxsis was taking place
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March 19, 2020
OK, based on your own experience, can you be so kind to tell me how long does this allergic reaction last maybe? I m currently on steroid drops for the eyes going on my second day and still no relief from the itch, redness and swollen eye lid and also below the eye. Initially, I tried both an eye wash and Benedryl This is unbelievable
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July 20, 2020
I have had little worms in my nose and under my skin, in my eyelids, throughout my face, to the point that I tore my nose apart inside with tweezers as I had no idea what was causing this. I notice there always seem to be really tiny flies around me all the time, I kept thinking they were just annoying little fruitflies. But it’s not going away, in fact getting much much worse. I need advice/ help please as no doctor or nurse has believed me that I have felt these with my own fingers in my nose.
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August 17, 2020
For the last 4 months my 8 year old has had crazy bad allergies every single night once he went to bed. It never happened at any other time or any other place. We did everything, washed bedding everyday, dusted everyday and even changed his flooring to wood. Nothing worked. Then today my husband thought could it be his fish food? (Which he feeds his fish right when he goes to bed). So we had him stick his finger in the food and bam, instant allergies. So I looked this up since it is bloodworm fish food. I had no idea. So happy we finally figured this out.
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September 03, 2020
Glad I had it confirmed I’m not the only one. I was feeding my spotted puffer and the tiger barbs frozen brine shrimp and frozen blood worms- no issues for about two weeks. However- I wanted to get some dried options that I could mash up and make into a paste and put in some silicone trays to freeze as a cheaper alternative.
It took approximately 2 minutes or less of crushing up the dried brine shrimp, blood worms, and krill into a paste before I couldn’t breathe, was coughing, gagging, and snotting.
Two Benadryl’s and 15 minutes later- the symptoms just kept getting worse so I had to resort to the epipen I keep around in case I’m stung by a bee.
It took another hour or two after that before the symptoms calmed enough to not be miserable, but at least I could breathe.
Thought I’d be fine with still handling the frozen chunks I’d bought previously from the store. Nope. I thought I washed my eyes this morning after feeding the fishies- and splashed some water in my face shortly after feeding them.
Not 1 minute later it looked like I had pink eye.Now back to the Benadryl and a cold pack after a good eye flush. Unbelievable how bad these suckers are.
I’m going to have to resort to gloves, mask, and goggles from now on when I feed the fish.
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October 06, 2020
I have been feeding bloodworms for years, but all the sudden it started with itchy hands, then sneezing now my eyes are itchy and swollen. I attributed to our red wine. But each time I fed the bloodworms my reaction became worse. I am now in day 2 my eyes still swollen and watery. Guess my better half will take over feeding our fish. Just not worth the misery. Now can go back having my wine!
Greg T