Re:'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens
by forgotmypw17 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @09:30PM
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Most "plain old salt" available through commercial sources does contain several synthetic additives as "flow enhancers".
Re:'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens
by marcan_42 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @10:10PM
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Indeed, but then it wouldn't be a salt allergy so much as an allergy to those additives (and one that you could easily fix by cooking with proper pure NaCl).
Re:'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens
by forgotmypw17 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:04AM
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Sure, but many don't even know it's usually there, even when the ingredient list just reads "salt".
Do you mean you're allergic to some common additive in table salt, or specifically to elevated salt concentrations? The former sounds like something you could call an allergy (but not to salt itself); the latter I probably wouldn't call an allergy so much as higher sensitivity to significantly hypotonic food or drinks. An allergy is usually defined as an excessive, damaging immune reaction to a foreign substance that is itself harmless at that concentration. Salt isn't a foreign substance.
I get the feeling a lot of people are lumping tons of things into the category of "allergies" where the underlying biological processes are very different. That doesn't mean the reactions aren't real, but it makes it very difficult to reason to reason about them. When everything's an allergy, the word allergy stops having any useful meaning.