Allergies-Hypersensitivity Type 1
Immuno extra creit video on allergies
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Combating Spring Allergies – Alvarado Hospital
Fighting Spring Allergies- Alvarado Hospital
Dr. Brian Weeks
Duration : 0:6:0
Allergy Survival Guide
Online information is available to help you prepare for allergy season says Dr. Clifford Bassett. He talked to Harry Smith about why people mistakenly believe they have a cold instead of allergies.
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How do food addictions and allergies work?
I read that food allergies can become addictions because our bodies craves the food we are allergic to (some, not all obviously) and can lead to the addiction of that food. This is counter intuitive on so many levels lol So maybe I understood incorrectly.
Can someone explain the link between food allergy and addiction? Is this pseudoscience or real? How does it work?
Serious answers only.
I’m allergic to eggs, nuts, peanuts, and tree nuts and I’ve never heard of this. I’d say it isn’t true because once you eat a food your allergic to it makes you feel so uncomfortable and bad that you’d never want to feel that way again. For example once I ate once of those really big Laffy Taffy and who knew those have eggs in them and the little ones don’t. Anyway my throat swelled up and it was difficult to breathe. I don’t think I’d become addicted to something that makes me feel that awful.
How Anithistamines Work For Allergies
Animation of how anithistamines help folks with allergies.
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What is the differences between allergies and recurring sinus infections?
I just had sinus surgery but I still continue to get recurring sinus infections
I rarely get any allergy symptoms. I don’t get ichy eyes, running nose, or sneezing.
I dont know if the doctor just didn’t do the operation right or what.
Cause I doubt I have allergies.
infections usually have color to them whereas allergies run clear.
Anaphylactic allergic reaction
What happens in anaphylactic reaction
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The best ways to treat allergies when you are a singer and actor?
Any information will do. The best medications (ones that don’t cause drowsiness or dry throat but clear up mucus), food tips, products, exercises, anything. I am a lead in a theater production but have pollen/dust allergies that constantly affect both my nose and throat. I just want to find the best ways possible to deal with allergies so that I can do my best for performances. Thnx for any help!
Get a neti pot. They sell them at most herbal/alternative medicine stores. It’s just this little thing that looks like a teapot. You put a warm saline solution in it and put it in one nostril and tip your head. The solution goes through and clears out your nose and sinuses.
I know- it sounds kind of nasty to think about, but it doesn’t hurt at all and if you do it once or twice a day it will do wonders for your allergies. Obviously it can’t cure them or anything, but it will moisturize your sinuses- good to prevent an infection- and clear irritants out of your nose.
For your throat I would recommend sucking on a throat drop, like Halls or something. It will help your sore throat. If that’s the problem. If it’s postnasal drainage, that’s what the neti pot is for.
Allergy’s Favorite Symptoms
February 3, 2010 by admin
Filed under Allergies, Highlights
Allergy’s Favorite Symptoms
If allergies had a top ten list of their favorite
symptoms what would be on it? Would they prefer life
threatening or just really annoying?
The most common symptoms, that may or may not be on
their favorites list:
Breathing problems.
This one should be fun for an allergy. It really gets
the persons attention. Nothing like the lack of oxygen
to center a person’s attention on the allergy.
Burning, watery or itchy eyes.
This symptom falls into the really annoying category.
It could cause additional problems if you can’t see
where you’re going.
Red, swollen eyes, also called Conjunctivitis.
Certainly annoying, but most people can deal with this
one.
Coughing.
This one gets old real quick. And a constant cough
quickly becomes painful.
Diarrhea.
This one might start out in the annoying category, but
left unchecked could switch to the life threatening
section very quickly.
Headache.
Depending on the severity of the headache, this one
might be tolerable.
Hives.
This symptom is not only annoying and uncomfortable
(possibly painful) it draws the attention of strangers
on the street.
Itchy nose, mouth, throat or skin.
Another in the category of really annoying. An itch
that can’t be soothed is one of the most annoying
things there is.
Runny nose.
Yeah, this one could cause problems with other people.
No one likes to hear someone constantly sniffing or
blowing their nose. Makes people wonder what germs
you’re spreading around.
Skin rashes.
Possibly ugly to look at, but tolerable
Does Food Make You Sick?
February 3, 2010 by admin
Filed under Allergies, Highlights
Does Food Make You Sick?
Do you often suffer from strange symptoms after eating
certain types of foods? Do you get itchy, break out in
hives, swell up or actually vomit? You could be
suffering from a common food allergy.
It’s estimated that over 12 million Americans suffer
from food allergies. Most allergic reactions are mild,
but around 30,000 visits to the emergency room are
reported each year because of the reactions. As many
as 200 deaths each year are attributed to food
allergies.
Studies report up to 8 percent of children have an
allergy to some type of food. The numbers are slightly
smaller for adults, only around 4 percent.
Many children will outgrow their food allergies. But
some will carry these allergies into adulthood and
suffer from them their entire lives.
Eating prepackaged foods, out in restaurants or even
friends homes can cause problems. It’s often hard to
tell what’s added to the foods we eat.
You hate to ask the cook “what’s in this?”, but
sometimes you just have to. Especially when asking can
mean the difference between an enjoyable meal and a
trip to the emergency room.
With the increased cases of peanut allergies, most
packaged foods have started including on the label the
use of peanut oils and even if the processing of nuts
is handled in the same factory.
There’s no cure for food allergies. So the only thing
you can do is avoid the foods that cause the reactions
you can’t deal with.
