In our time it is difficult to find a person who has never encountered manifestations of allergic diseases and human reactions. Some people are concerned about the onset of spring - the pollen of flowering plants causes rhinitis and conjunctivitis and even asthmatic attacks. Others have a skin rash after a piece of a harmless orange cake or an antipyretic tablet. Medical statistics warns us that in 30-40 years absolutely everyone can suffer from this or that kind of allergy! Such a deplorable picture is caused by the ecological situation and our way of life. We eat semi-finished products and genetically modified food, breathe gassed air from megacities, suffer from hypodynamia, at the slightest indisposition we take "chemistry", our dwellings are built of synthetic materials. All these factors lead to the fact that over time our body loses its ability to respond to these or other stimuli properly - in a natural way. As a result, an allergy develops. After all, an allergy is not a disease as such: it is the body's reaction to "hostile" substances.
We can not globally influence the state of the environment. But in our power to get out on weekends outside the city, walk in the park every day, away from busy trails.
What happens in the body?
An allergy occurs when the authorities responsible for cleaning do not cope with their work. The first to hit hit the liver and kidneys, which are forced to process various food "garbage". If the purifying function is stalled, then global poisoning, discord in the work of all vital systems occurs. Without the ability to remove waste products with the excretory system, the body tries to remove them by any other possible means, for example, through the skin or the respiratory tract. Thus, and there is an allergic reaction.
The nature of allergic diseases and human reactions determines the increased sensitivity to some allergens (antigens). Faced with them, the body begins to urgently sound the alarm, perceiving even a completely harmless substance as a stranger. In contact with the antigen, the cells of our immune system (mainly T- and B-lymphocytes, macrophages) actively produce a mediator of histamine allergy. And in the body begins allergic inflammation, which externally manifests itself as a runny nose, conjunctivitis, throat swelling, bronchospasm, skin rashes. The insidiousness of allergens is that they are able to accumulate, "endowing" their host with new kinds of allergic diseases and human reactions. Therefore, for a successful fight against the disease, it is important to start complex treatment in time.
From rhinitis to asthma
If you do not treat allergic rhinitis, it can lead to bronchial asthma: the nose, designed to perform the role of a natural filter, does not cope with its task and "unfiltered" stimuli (allergens) immediately enter the lungs.
If you have an acute attack of allergic rhinitis, you need to quickly and without much interference into the body to ease the condition. To do this, twist out of cotton wool two small turundochki, moisten them in infusions of herbs and put them into nasal passages for 15-20 minutes. You can use a tartar, a dyke dye, a cottonwood. With special sensitivity, add chamomile and calendula. You can wash your nose with herbal tea. Then it is necessary to moisten the mucous membrane and strengthen its regeneration. To do this, use oil extracts. Help the funds from an oil-based cold that softly affects the respiratory tract and does not irritate them.
A sense of proportion is a guarantee of health
The best means of preventing allergic reactions - separate food. The main principle is not to eat proteins and carbohydrates in one go.
Recent discoveries in the field of immunology prove that in addition to true allergy, there is also pseudo-allergy.
A simple example: a man who has always tolerated chocolate, carried away by watching a movie, imperceptibly ate a whole box of chocolates. And next morning, having found out on a skin rashes, has hastened to the doctor and has informed, that at it or him an allergy on chocolate. In fact, the patient simply overloaded his enzyme system. And so with many products, which primarily include smoked products, hard cheeses, spicy, fried, dishes with vinegar and mayonnaise, chocolate, exotic fruits.
False allergy in clinical practice is much more common. It can arise as a result of weakening of immunity against the background of untreated diseases, as well as in conditions of intoxication caused by abnormalities in the digestive tract (especially with dysbiosis), chronic infections or infection with protozoa (lamblia) and helminths. Therefore it is very important to understand that, despite similar symptoms, the approaches to treatment and prevention of these diseases are significantly different.
Proper treatment strategy
For successful treatment of allergies, first of all, it is necessary to find out with which type of disease (atopy or false allergy) we are dealing with - this will determine the choice of methods of treatment.
In the case of a false allergy (namely, it occurs most often), the beer task is to cleanse the body, strengthen immunity, detect infections that provoke allergic manifestations. Such an allergy is effectively treatable with the methods of alternative medicine, for example, homeopathy, Ayurvedic medicine. Properly selected therapy restores one after another all the systems of the body, starting with the most slagged. If this is a true allergy (atopy), you need to identify the allergen as early as possible. To ensure that the results of allergic tests are as accurate as possible, it should be remembered: three days before the test is done, it is undesirable to take antihistamines and vasodilators. The reliability of the indicators is adversely affected by coffee and alcohol. After determining the allergen (or group of allergens) that causes an inadequate reaction, tactics of treatment is chosen. Classical medicine uses for specific allergic diseases specific systemic immunotherapy. The essence of the method is that the allergist prepares special serums, which include microdoses of various allergens. Serums are administered according to a special scheme, as a result of which the body develops resistance to specific allergens.
React quickly
If you notice an unusual reaction of the body to a particular product or substance, consult a doctor as soon as possible. Timely treatment started will successfully cope with the disease.
With an unexpected allergic disease and a bad reaction to food, start by taking sorbents. The simplest of them is activated charcoal (in proportion one tablet per 10 kg of weight). Be sure to take hepatoprotectors or choleretics, for example, hofitol. In the home medicine cabinet, allergy sufferers are advised to always have an analgesic, semrex, cetrine or zodak, as well as antihomotoxic drugs (lymphomyositis, enthistol) - with the correct treatment they give a stable result. However, remember that any medication should be administered under strict doctor's supervision!
Allergy most often occurs on penicillin antibiotics, analgesics, anesthetics, anti-inflammatory drugs.
When to drink tablets?
If the allergic reaction has come, you can not delay with the help, because in some cases it is fraught with serious complications, up to a lethal outcome. If a person is really allergic, then antihistamines should always be with him: an allergic reaction can be sudden, dangerous and unpredictable (for example, laryngeal edema that causes suffocation). But take into account that, having stopped only on urgent measures, you are almost guaranteed to get a relapse of the disease. Suppressing the reaction with drugs alone, allergic does not solve the problem, but only aggravates it. It should be remembered that antihistamines are just a means of emergency help, helping to cope with acute and sometimes dangerous attacks. In addition, systemic abuse of tablets distorts the picture of the disease, further damaging immunity. By blocking the action of histamine, the drug "for company" also depresses the body's natural defenses, as well as processes that can not occur without histamine (for example, digestion). Remember that antihistamines are able to completely disrupt the work of the immune system. It must also be remembered that many of the medications our immune system can take with hostility. If you find intolerance to the drug, you should completely abandon its further use. Modern medicine has such a vast arsenal of medicines that a competent specialist will almost always be able to find a safe analogue of the drug-allergen. Remember that synthetic drugs provoke allergic reactions much more often than drugs created on a natural basis. Be especially careful if you are faced with the need for anesthesia (for example, a dentist). Beforehand, make sure that the sample is sensitive to the active component of the pain medication.
You can not treat dermatitis as a simple rash. This is a complex chronic disease requiring prolonged treatment. First of all, it is necessary to eliminate all factors that provoke skin reactions.
Atopic dermatitis is not a cause for despair. Proper treatment allows you to monitor the course of this disease.
With a rash , hives, an excellent blood cleanser is an infusion of 1 tbsp. l. flowers of nettle (clear-eyed), boiled with a glass of boiling water. After enduring 20 minutes, warm infusion is drunk in half a cup 4 times a day before meals (so you can treat and teenage rashes). When dermatitis fresh crushed celery leaves or ointment from them (leaves, grated with unsalted butter) are applied externally. For lotions and washings, you can use the infusion of celery roots. Useful lotions and compresses from the infusion of chamomile (better than the pharmacy) - 15-20 flowers per glass of boiling water. Well operate and dvadtsatiminutnye baths (temperature of water 38) with a train tripartite (take 50-100 g of raw materials on a bucket of water, boil for half an hour). Corticosteroid creams and ointments quickly relieve redness and relieve itching with inflamed skin (atopic dermatitis), especially in severe exacerbations. But they must appoint a doctor. It should be borne in mind that these drugs can significantly reduce the external manifestations of the disease, but they are not intended for long-term use. Typically, the recommended period of use of ointments is 2 weeks.