Unsolved Medical Mysteries: Explaining the Unexplainable

The Strangest Allergy on Earth (1x1)

Air date: Jan 01, 2025

This course opens with one of the most frightening—but thankfully also one of the rarest—medical mysteries: aquagenic urticaria, a.k.a., a water allergy. After surveying the properties of solvents in general and water in particular, Dr. Schillace walks through what happens when the autoimmune system goes haywire.