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olyjohnyesterday at 6:43 PM1 replyview on HN

I was noticing the other day how my pollen allergies would subside when I took some Adderall, and would come back when it wore off. I looked it up and there are actually correlations between allergies and ADHD. I'm not sure if Celiac is the same kind of allergy or not, but I thought it was interesting.


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Aurornisyesterday at 8:37 PM

> I was noticing the other day how my pollen allergies would subside when I took some Adderall, and would come back when it wore off.

The explanation is much more simple: Adderall is amphetamine, which has functional overlap with how pseudoephedrine (aka Sudafed) works. They are both norepinephrine releasing agents.

Pseudoephedrine is considered a substituted amphetamine in chemistry lingo.