Allergies
By Coyalita Linville
Allergies – Everyone has heard of them and studies show up to 20% of Americans has some type of allergy. The most common reactions are with the skin or air, animals, food or similar.
You probably have heard of them before and talk with other people about them, what they are, how you get them and how to treat them.
Allergies are also called Type I Hypersentivity. They are malfunctions of the human immune system and they are causing the state of the body, known as hypersensitization.
The body reacts immunologically to non-immunogenic substances, which are also the cause of the body state which is known as allergens.
The first term come in 1906, from Clemens von Pirguet, Viennese pediatrician.
Symptoms and First Signs of Allergies
The presence of the allergens may cause systemic or local inflammatory response. Usually, when you feel swelling in the parts of your body, you know that it’s starting up with allergies.
This first symptom is also known as systemic inflammatory response or also, local inflammatory response. For example, if you are allergic to animal hearts you will have allergies in the nose, which will include swelling of the nasal mucosa.
This is also known as allergic rhinitis. Because of the itch in your nose, you will very often wipe your nose, more than is necessary.
When your eyes are irritated as reaction of the allergies, symptoms such as itching of conjunctiva and redness are the most often. There are other signs of allergies such as bronchoconstriction or even sometimes outright attacts of asthma, dyspnoea and others. It is also important to mention that allergies may also cause and bronchoconstriction, edema, coma, hypotension, cutaneous or in the worst cases death.
One of the most usual allergies that caused with the airborne pollen is allergies to pollen with the symptoms of hay fever. This type of allergy usually starts up in the early spring or also in the early autumn. Finally, depending on factors, allergies may also be caused by medications.
Reasons Why People Are Getting Allergies
The most important thing for the health of all people is the immune system. The immune system is actually your bio-weapon which protects your body from all diseases that are attacking your body.
This mechanism may identify foreign invaders and at the same time also destroy them. Still, sometimes it could happen that this mechanism, the immune system, makes some mistakes which cause allergies. These allergies are results of hypersensitive immune system.
The main problem is that hypersensitive immune system makes mistakes, so it identifies innocuous substances as bad and dangerous for the body and as results of that, immune system starts with attack to the substances with high level of ferocity.
Finally, the result of all this is problems that may range from mildly inconvenient to uncomfortable feelings. Finally, the worst result is total failure of the organs in your body.
Hypersensitized State And How Does Your Immune System Comes Into It
There are more doctrines about how the immune system goes into a hypersensitized state. The most logical explanation is that allergies are connected with genetic codes and that they are always caused by protein.
So, white blood cells usually are not able to make differences between proteins which are threatening and those which are non-threatening.
