Some use disposable rubber gloves to feed blood
worms to their fish due to the allergy issues. But
they only break out like you are talking about when
they do have contact. The risk is not worth the effort
if you are severely allergic in my opinion.
I have fed the freeze dried blood worms but never
the frozen or fresh. The freeze dried are less likely
to give you a reaction from what I have been told, but
do not know if it is true. I just have no need in
feeding with frozen foods when I have grindal worms,
redworms, wingless fruit flies to feed young and adult
killies. The dried blood worms were fed to my betta as
a treat before I got back into raising fish and
keeping live food cultures again.
Later, John
--- Hold The Cow! <darterman-in-cboss.com> wrote:
> > It is a common allergy. So people can actually die
> > from touching a frozen cube of them. I have no
> idea
> > what the compound is that causes this. This is one
> of
> > the reasons I do not use blood worms for feeding
> my
> > fish. But I raise several live foods so they are
> not
> > needed anyway.
> >
> > Later John
>
>
> John, are you saying that you also get this
> reaction? It says above that
> this allergy can cause death? Or was that a typo?
>
> Rob
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