What Is Allergies?
Posted by Admin | Posted in Allergies | Posted on 08-11-2009
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Allergies are no doubt, annoying but these can’t be considered as diseases for sure. These could be best described as the exaggeration of body’s immune system. If the allergies are taken lightly and left untreated these could take a very deadly form – affecting the body very severely.
There are various kinds of allergies and these would have different symptoms depending upon the cause, where the allergies is appearing on the body surface, how long it stays, etc. It is almost next to impossible to treat an allergy unless you know what triggered it and what the symptoms are. As discussed that looking at the symptoms one would know which allergy is bothering the person, some times it is more difficult than the sound of it. Hence, there are three general rules around allergies, the same are –
1) Whenever we are thinking that allergy might be the possible reason of the problem that the patient is confronting, we should see if the immune system is involved, for the problem to be related to allergies.
2) Look for the reactions. The body would reciprocate if not immediately, a day or two after.
3) Try to prevent yourself from the know allergies that you have.
Symptoms Of Allergies
Symptoms of allergies would be dependent upon the kind of allergy that one has. In fact, the symptoms would indicate the cause of the allergy. The most common allergies would be Food Allergies; Anaphylaxis; Respiratory Allergies; Contact Allergies and Insect Sting Allergies. The symptoms of allergies caused by the once mentioned above would be different from one another. We cannot really list some common symptoms of allergies for that matter. The symptoms of allergies are quite a relative issue, which can only be elaborated when a specific allergy is in question.
The allergies are basically the immune system of the body reacting over sensitively to some substance. The over reaction could be understood as allergic reaction and the substance causing it is called the allergens. As there are different kinds of allergies the allergens causing the same would be different as well. Let’s say for example the Insect Sting allergies would have the insect as the allergens.
Causes Of Allergies
The cause of allergies is when we fall prey to the outside invaders – the allergens. Our immune system is like a defense mechanism, which is always working to ensure that the organs and all the cells in our body function perfectly well. No doubt that the immune mechanism works at its best but then it definitely is not the perfect one against all the allergens waiting to invade your body and hence we get allergies.
On the other hand at times out body immune system overreacts to an out side substance and treats it as allergens when it actually is harmful like the pollen. The result of which is our body start to show the symptoms of allergies.
Clearly the best way to ensure that the symptoms of allergies don’t bother you is by being away from the things that you know you are allergenic too. That is why it is said, “Prevention is better than Cure”.