Respiratory allergy is a dangerous disease

Cough, runny nose, sneezing, choking in the throat - already familiar to us signs of inflammation of the respiratory tract, because it is - a respiratory allergy - a dangerous disease. In most cases, the culprits of these troubles are microbes and bacteria.

Allergy is a condition in which the organism of a particular person is unconventional, reacts too actively to seemingly quite ordinary external factors that do not cause similar reactions in other people.

The mechanism of respiratory allergy - a dangerous disease is complicated, but in a simplified form it looks like this. A certain substance that is part of the food, or is in contact with the skin, or present in the inspired air, is considered by the body for some unknown reason as a source of danger, encroaching on the genetic constancy of its internal environment.


The system of immunity , whose main task is precisely to protect the body from everything foreign, regards this substance as an antigen and reacts quite specifically - it generates antibodies. Antibodies remain in the blood.

After a while, the contact repeats. And in the blood there are antibodies. The repeated meeting results in the antigen and antibody being in contact with each other, and this contact is the cause of the allergic reaction. The anonymous "certain substance" mentioned by us, capable of provoking the development of respiratory allergy is a dangerous disease.

Allergen can be contained in the inspired air and provoke the occurrence of allergic reactions from the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract. It will be a respiratory allergen and, accordingly, a respiratory allergy.

The basic feature of respiratory allergy - a dangerous disease is that the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract interact with virtually all types of allergens, i.e., food allergens are directly in contact with the mucous membrane of the oropharynx, and contact allergens are easily found in the child's mouth.

What's the result? As a result, an obvious disease: allergic rhinitis, allergic sinusitis, etc.


Is it allergic?

Differences in respiratory allergy from banal ARD are there and they can not be confused with anything. With a respiratory allergosis, a runny nose and / or cough are detected, but:

- the general condition is not violated;

- the activity was saved;

- the appetite is saved;

normal temperature.

It is clear that all of the above may well occur and with mild ARVI. So what do you do? Run to the doctors at the slightest sniffing? Of course not! But think, analyze, bear in mind - it is necessary. And to facilitate the thinking-analysis, we draw attention to some points that are fundamentally significant in situations related to respiratory allergies.


When exposed to an allergen, the symptoms of respiratory tract damage appear very quickly. That is, literally a minute ago was healthy, and suddenly snot with a stream ... And the temperature is normal and the child asks for food ... And if contact with the allergen has stopped - and the recovery is almost instantaneous. Let's go to your neighbor's birthday party. Just entered - began to cough, his nose was pawned ... They returned home, in five minutes everything passed.

Once again I pay attention: the respiratory allergosis develops quickly. If there are any suspicious symptoms, it means that contact with a possible allergen happened quite recently - minutes, hours ago. Therefore, you should always analyze, think, remember: what happened before? Before sneezing, before a cough, before a cold? And what could be?

- visited the premises where you rarely visit: went to visit, to a store, a circus, a theater, a cafe, etc .;

- hygienic procedures and guidance of beauty: soap, shampoo, cream, deodorants, perfumes;

- cleaning the premises, repair, construction, etc .: dust pillar, detergents, new wallpaper, linoleum;

- next to something smelled and not necessarily at the same time, to stink: any aerosols, smoke, spices;

- "bird cherry blossoms behind my window": contacts with plants, especially during flowering periods, a bouquet in the house, a trip to the dacha, into the forest, in the field;

- Something fundamentally new has appeared in the house: new toys, new furniture, a new carpet, new clothes;

- communication with animals - domestic, wild, shaggy, feathered: dogs, cats, birds, hamsters, mice, horses, rabbits, guinea pigs; contact with animal food, especially with fishes for aquarium fish;

- a new washing powder and everything that is used for washing: bleach, conditioners, rinsers;

- eating unusual food;

- took medicine.

Almost the most common respiratory allergen is plant pollen.

Potentially harmful plants - a lot. They are divided into three groups: weeds (ambrosia, dandelion, quinoa, wormwood, etc.), cereals (rye, wheat, buckwheat, etc.), trees and shrubs (oak, birch, willow, alder, ash).

Respiratory allergies

Allergic inflammatory process in the respiratory tract is not designated by the term ARD. Does not mean when the allergic nature of the disease is known.

Once again in other words. The centuries-old experience of people's self-treatment here does not help in any way! There are no healers and healers of methods against allergies! One hundred years ago no one knew what it was!

The main, strategic and in most cases self-sufficient method of treatment of any acute allergic respiratory disease is the termination of contact with a source of allergy.

As everyone just at first glance, there were only two "little things": first, the source of the allergy to find and, secondly, to be able to get rid of it.

In the case of the girl Sveta, no medicine was needed: went out into the yard, and the rhinitis immediately stopped.


Treatment

But there is also a real reason to start treatment.

So, we begin.

All methods of drug treatment of allergies can be divided into two areas:

- taking antiallergic drugs inside;

- local effects on mucous membranes of the respiratory tract.

The main antiallergic agents for oral administration are antihistamines. Pharmacologists constantly improve these medicines and come up with new ones - more active and with fewer side effects.

Not surprisingly, there are numerous classifications of antihistamines in which they are divided into generations that differ in their pharmacological properties.

Antihistamines of the first generation are well known to the overwhelming majority of the adult population of our country, but their international names are even terrible to pronounce - diphenhydramine, chloropyramine! But these are the famous Diphenhydramine and Suprastinum!


Principal features of first generation antihistamines:

- an incidental sedative (hypnotic, calming) effect on the nervous system;

- ability to cause dryness of mucous membranes;

- antiemetic action;

- the ability to enhance the properties of soothing, antiemetic, analgesic and antipyretic agents;

- the effect of the application is very fast, but short-lived;

- Decreased activity with long-term admission;

- good solubility, therefore, most of these preparations are not only in forms for oral administration, but also in solutions for injections.

Antihistamines of the second generation are characterized by the fact that practically no two main side effects of first-generation drugs - sedation and the ability to cause dry mucous membranes.

Features of second generation antihistamines:

- a large, in comparison with the drugs of the first generation, antihistamine activity;

- The curative effect is fast and long, so it can be taken rarely (one, sometimes twice a day);

- with prolonged use, the effectiveness of treatment is not reduced;

- the main negative point - a side effect on the rhythm of the heart.

It happens infrequently, but still happens. The risk of this effect is significantly increased if antihistamines of the second generation are combined with antifungal antibiotics, with antibiotics of the macrolide group, with some food products, for example, with grapefruit juice.


Antihistamines of the third generation retain all the advantages of second-generation drugs, but lack the main drawback - the influence on the rhythm of the heart.

Concluding the topic of antiallergic drugs for oral administration, we should pay attention to two more important circumstances.

First, in addition to antihistamines, there are also preparations of preventive action. A typical representative of such drugs is Ketotifen.