Sneezing, runny nose, cough, red eyes and tears constantly ongoing ... If all this every spring leans on you and prevents to live, then you - a victim of hay fever.
Someone heartily rejoices spring warmth, and for someone to start a season of suffering. Warm spring breeze carries everywhere dust and plant pollen that trigger pollen disease - And from it to hide or escape.
Manifested pollen disease usually in the form of irritation of the mucous membranes. That is its most common symptoms are:
- Runny nose ( nasal allergy )
- Stuffy nose (a consequence of inflammation of the sinuses)
- Pain in the eyes, redness and swelling of the eyelids, watery eyes (the result of the inflamed conjunctiva of the eye)
- Sore throat, sneezing (from the irritation of the nasal mucosa).
Do not Mess with hay fever
Despite the discomfort, many believe pollen disease something "frivolous." And its treatment include respectively. But experts warn: pollen disease - This is a sign that an allergic disease is formed and it just will not do.
He ran in for apetke antihistamine medicine Many allergies are not aware what the consequences may cause self. The fact that medications , Relieving the symptoms of allergies, have a different spectrum of activity. Without the advice of a doctor is very easy to miss, even in dosage. And the consequences of an innocent ingestion independently assigned to itself, may be unexpected. For example, hay fever due to improper treatment is able to go into an acute condition and cause swelling of the mucous membranes, choking, chair disorder, memory impairment. Among the less common effects are observed:
- Loss of visual and auditory nerves, which provokes blurred vision, partial deafness
- Vulvity women as a result of the defeat of the mucous membranes, especially suffer from hay fever
- Small epilepsy cause allergic defeat meninges.
The vagaries of the disease
Spring allergies causing pollen, appearing in the second half of April, many trees (birch, alder, hazel, oak, maple, ash) and also in some bushes. The smaller plants produce pollen, and what it is smaller - the its action more allergens.
In many cases spring allergies It does not end with the period of flowering, and turns into a food allergy. And if, for example, a person suffering from an allergy to birch pollen, it is contraindicated apricots, peaches, red apples and raw carrots. And if it "gets" hazel pollen, that provoke allergies and hazelnuts, and other nuts.
Special deceit spring allergy in its similarity to the symptoms of the common cold, and it often happens that people are treated with antibiotics and only later realize that this treatment is ineffective.
As such no cure for hay fever: all the drugs only help sufferers of the illness easier to bear. It is also known that allergies is inherited. In children, it usually manifests itself in seven to eight years.
How to curb allergies
In addition to receiving special medications, physicians are advised to take precautions to help avoid critical peak hay fever:
1. Try not to leave the house during the allergy until 11 o'clock in the morning. Explain at work that being allergic to it getting worse so that the result may need a hospital.
2. Try not to go on outings and trips to the countryside during the flowering plants.
3. Always wear sunglasses in the street.
4. Place a fine mesh on the windows.
5. Coming home, rinse nose and eyes water. It will wash away the pollen from skin and respiratory tract.
6. Regularly arrange home wet cleaning.
7. Be sure to change clothes, coming home (as well as possible - and in the office). On clothes settles a lot of pollen. So in the spring and wash the things you need most.
8. Do not take drugs As vitamins. So long addictive, which means that drugs will not have the desired effect. Drink the tablets only in moments of acute allergies. Moreover, only those that recommend a doctor.
Treatment and prevention
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