Allergy treatment
Keep your home or office clean, do not allow dust or animal hair to accumulate on your carpet or bedspread. During the treatment course do not consume too much meat, refuse spicy dishes. If the allergy recurs regularly- consult an allergist so that he could help you to define the allergen that causes allergy in you. With identified allergen it would be easier for you to avoid it further on. If you suffer from seasonal allergic rhinitis (the most common type of allergy also called pollinosis or pollen disease) the symptoms of which are the following: severe itching in the nose, redness in the eye region and lacrimation, you can resort to medical treatment to eliminate them. In severe cases using medicines is indispensible despite their side effects, which may include heart impact, sedative effect and mucous membranes desiccation. A good solution for treating pollinosis exacerbations is homeopathic medicines. For successful treatment of allergy it is first necessary to ascertain its origin. Defining the causative agent is crucial both for the treatment and prophylaxis of the disease. However, it is not that easy to do and very often, even when defined, it is just impossible to get rid of it. Therewith, any manifestation of an allergy is a signal of your body that something is wrong with your immune system. It means that even if you fully neutralize the action of “your” allergen, you cannot be sure something else would not cause allergy in you. That is why the best way of treating allergy is a complex therapy including such methods as elimination therapy (simply speaking creation of hypo-allergic condition at home and workplace), specific immunotherapy and pharmacotherapy. It is also important to keep to special hypo-allergic diet during the treatment.
Allergy
Allergy is an excessively sensitive response of a body to certain substances (allergens). The mechanism of allergy consists in release of antibodies in human body which may lead to its decreased or increased sensitivity. Allergy symptoms manifest themselves in the form of skin rash, severe irritation of mucous membranes and total exhaustion.
Allergic reaction is a condition developed on the basis of immunological conflict. In diagnosing allergy it is important to define the allergen, its causative relation with clinical manifestations and the type of the immunological reaction. Pathogenetic principle of defining 4 types of allergic reactions is the generally accepted method of diagnosing allergy.
Presently allergic diseases are very common among children and the number of affected children and severity of the disease in children grows every day. Supposedly it is associated with environmental pollution: exhaust, industry waste, etc; and appearing in household use multitudes of synthetic materials and dyes which are potential allergens and may promote spreading allergic diseases. The uncontrolled use of medicines may also lead to the growth of the number of allergic patients. The increased sensitivity to medicines often occurs in the result of unjustified use of several medicines simultaneously, uncontrolled use of antibiotics or your doctor`s insufficient knowledge of pharmacokinetics who prescribed incompatible medicines or wrong dosage for you. Other factors which may play a significant role in the development of an allergy are climate, food habits, heredity, somatic pathologies, etc.
Thus allergy is a pathologically increased response of a human body to specific substances of antigenic nature which usually do not cause any symptoms of disease in people with normal body reaction. Allergy may also be caused by gastrointestinal pathologies, nervous or endocrine system dysfunctions, etc. Any agent which causes antibody response in case of getting into human body can become an incentive for an allergy.