I have a friend who was born allergic to shoes. Finding out about his disease explained me a lot of things: first, it was clear why is is semi-deaf: I know that there may be a connection between allergies and hearing, and it seems that he really had big troubles in his early childhood. That prevented him from learning to speak in the correct way, and he is now confronted with a low degree of dislexia for the rest of his life.
One of the allergies he’s got is to shoes. Not exactly to all kind shoes, but the ones made of artificial materials. the trouble is that some shoes manufacturers didn’t use to mention what materials they used, so he ended up by buying leather shoes with plastic interior, which gave him terrible itches.
This is so strange that he got diagnosed with very big difficulty, as all doctors were suspecting eczema, or micosis, and gave him wrong tratments for years.
This was the strangest disease ever I’ve heard about.