Do you know the difference between adverse reaction,side effect and an allergy?

Answer 1

Adverse reaction- Unexpected reaction to a substance, can often be life threatening. Examples: Respiratory failure after taking narcotics, muscle damage(Rhabdomyolysis) from statin drugs(Lipitor, Crestor, Zocor...)
Side effect- A known reaction, good or bad to a substance.
Examples: Drowsiness after taking an antihistamine, both good and bad. Diphenhydramine is a common sleep aid.
Allergic reaction- This occurs after repeated exposures to a substance, the body becomes sensitized. Doesn't happen to everyone. The most serious form of allergic reaction is anaphylaxis, this requires immediate attention or person will die.
Examples: Child takes amoxicillin on 3 different occasions, all is fine. Takes it a 4th time and develops hives, itching and a beautiful red rash. My own experience, I took Sulfa many times growing up, took again a few years ago and my tongue swelled up and I developed mouth ulcers. Another, a person gets a couple bee stings, no big deal. They get stung again and immediately the airway swells, they can't breathe, their whole body is failing. They need medical attention immediately and will need to carry an Epi-Pen for the rest of their life.

Answer 2

A true allergy, which you can find out with allergy tests, means that the worse case scenario is anaphalactic shock- your lungs closing up.

HOWEVER, those tests do not tell you whether or not you are sensitive. You can break out in hives from something and have a negative reaction on a skin test.

Many people show negative reactions to animals, but are in fact very sensitive to their hair and dander.

An adverse reaction could be an allergy or it could just be sensitivity. A side effect is a possible reaction to a drug; it may or may not be an allergy.

Adverse reactions are usually pretty serious. A side effect could be very mild or serious.

Answer 3

It makes no difference if the warming is in the range that Lindzen suggests. He has stated that you can attribute no more than 1/3 of the warming to humans from the last century since the climate models don't show any increase warming in the mid troposphere. That means that the warming is at the surface and it would be much less than models suggest. So far that amounts to no more than about 1/5 of a degree and as Lindzen has stated, the vast majority of the warming that you would get has already occurred. It isn't supporting an alarmist position at all. It isn't saying that it causes any warming either. He doesn't seem to discount the possibility of negative feedback canceling any warming.

Answer 4

it all sounds the same to me