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Sometimes not enough to avoid triggers (allergens) of the allergic reaction and you have to use drugs, whether OTC or prescription.

- Avoid rubbing your eyes, it irritates them even more. To relieve itching, swelling and burning, use cool compresses.

- Salt water rinses and lubricating eye drops that can be bought without prescription, can help relieve irritated eyes and remove particles from the eyes.

- You’ll also find at the drugstore decongestant eye drops that remove redness. Some burn a bit when applied and does not relieve all symptoms. In fact, it is possible that if you use them for a long time, have an effect of “bouncing” and further increase in redness. Read the rest of this entry »

The most important thing is that the person try to limit exposure to the allergen that stimulates the reaction. To do this:

- If pollen affects you, avoid going outside when the pollen count is higher (usually mid-morning or at dusk). Keep home windows closed and use air conditioning. Fans tend to worsen the crisis by spreading pollen, spores and dust in the air. If you have to go outside, wear glasses big sun, to prevent the pollen from your eyes. If you drive a car, car windows closed.

- If you affect dust mite covers on mattresses and pillows with allergy. Frequently wash bedding in hot water. And if the mattress is several years of use (10 or more), consider buying a new one. Most old mattresses are a true colony of allergens. Read the rest of this entry »

Why do they happen?

The function of the immune system or immune (the defense) is to protect the body from harmful substances such as viruses and bacteria. It also reacts and acts to foreign substances called allergens (to which the person is allergic) reaction that usually are harmless and cause no problems in most people. But in an allergic person, the immune system is hypersensitive and reacts in extreme ways.

In the case of ocular allergy (eye), the problem begins when the conjunctiva (the membrane that lines the inner eyelid and the white of the eye) contact with an allergen. In its attempt to combat what it perceives as an attack, the immune system creates antibodies that cause the eye to release histamine and other chemicals to fight the allergen. That is what causes the redness, itching and tearing, discomfort may occur independently or in combination with nasal allergy symptoms. Read the rest of this entry »

In a matter of allergies, your nose is not alone. If you thought the only allergy symptoms are congestion, runny nose and sneezing, you’re wrong. If one day wakes up with red eyes sting you, you’ll burn and tear, and/or swollen eyelids, you have all the signs of ocular allergy or allergic conjunctivitis. For now, a cold pack may relieve symptoms, but long-term need to identify what you produce it and learn to combat symptoms.

The eyes are very sensitive and delicate organs. Anything that irritates is extremely annoying, imagine the feeling of having a foreign body in the eye, a kind of grit that is added to the scrubbing makes you itch all the time, not to mention the redness and inflammation. How to go out with such respect? Well, one in five people (in America) they have allergies affect the eyes and is known as ocular allergy or allergic conjunctivitis. Read the rest of this entry »

Allergy symptoms such as irritated eyes and shortness of breath can be caused by an animal, especially a pet. According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, approximately 60 million people suffer from allergies. Up to 30% of these people have reactions to dogs and cats.

An allergic reaction is caused by particles of protein normally found in pollen, food and dandruff. These particles are ingested, injected or absorbed through the skin. Although many of the allergies are inherited, some may develop through repeated exposure to a substance.

Allergic reactions are usually a stuffy nose, red eyes, itching, coughing, sneezing, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing and rashes and swelling. A severe reaction is anaphylactic shock causing dizziness and loss of consciousness that can lead to heart failure and death. Read the rest of this entry »

It is well known that pollen can be responsible for the classic hay fever, rhinitis and causing eye discomfort.

Also, pollen is responsible for asthma, urticaria, or atopic dermatitis. A mild fever may be normal in people with a high degree of allergy.

The pollen moves

Pollination is the transport of pollen grains to the stigmas of female flowers, thus creating fertilization. Allow air currents to certain pollens reach great heights and travel very long distances.

Some pollen, transported in this way may make more than 100 kilometers. The maximum density of pollen in the air is during the day. Fortunately, not all pollens cause allergic reaction.

Pollen and allergy

In principle, those that cause respiratory symptoms are anemophile, ie they are transported by wind.

The entomophilous plant pollen carried by insects, is less allergenic. Another type of pollen, larger and more visible as the pines, which do not cause any allergy.

Cross Allergies

There are cross-reactions between different plants. A person allergic to a plant at risk of reacting to the plants of the same family.

There are also cross-reactions between pollen and foods. For example, a person is allergic to betuláceos, 50% of cases, cross allergies with certain foods such as apple, pear, peach, etc..

Normal as he bites into one of these fruits is that the allergic person feels a swelling of the lips, and a strange sensation in the mouth.

Continued exposure to allergens in milk does ‘manipulate’ the immune system to tolerate the food. Between 2% and 5% of infants born with milk allergy, while 80% will not have this problem when he turns six.

For the remaining 20%, the best ‘recipe’ seems to have it a group of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Hospital (USA) who has decided to follow up several children with milk allergy in 2008 participated in a study who were consuming increasing doses of this food.

In Spain, in the Gregorio Maranon hospital in Madrid have successfully conducted similar tests in children with allergy to milk and egg. The procedure is to artificially induce tolerance through a desensitization that lies in giving small amounts of cow’s milk or egg, as appropriate, mixed with juice.

In new research, a total of 18 boys and girls aged between six and 16 years were followed for between three and 17 months, depending on how long it took the parents to go by increasing the amount of milk consumed by their children.

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Today allergies, doctors begin to be interested in a new theory on food allergies, intolerances or more accurately called hypersensitivity.

According to this theory, the reaction to a food that is bad for the sensitive person may be subtle and harder to detect. You may not appear before a few hours or a day or two, or perhaps take a longer time to appear.
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Food Allergies – why are they made?

Food allergies This blog is intended to provide advice on diet, which can make our lives much more healthy, as our daily diet should be as balanced as possible, day by day we will give advice on all diets both for children youth, adults, seniors, people with some terrible disease like diabetes.
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Sensitive Body
Food allergies are a common cause, these reactions occur because of excessive body’s sensitivity to certain food proteins, and these are an essential part of human nutrition. This reaction is repeated every time we eat the food in question.

Children are much more prone to allergies because their immune system is not fully developed yet, so food is being introduced gradually, until the food is readily assimilated.
There is a different concept called food intolerance, such as milk, gluten etc … which is not caused by an allergic reaction but is caused by a deficiency in certain enzymes involved in digestion of that food.

The most common allergens are:

* Serious Allergens: Peanuts
* Strong Allergens: Cereals containing gluten (oats, wheat, barley, rye), shellfish, eggs, fish, soy, milk proteins, nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, pistachios, walnuts, pine nuts etc …)
* Mild Allergens: Celery, stone fruits (apricots, cherries, peaches and plums).

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