Gentle Solutions for Painful Skin Allergies
What are allergies?
Allergies are a reaction by your immune system to normally harmless substances that it sees as harmful. The allergy-causing substances are known as allergens.
How do they occur?
Your immune system is your own natural defense against infection and other foreign material. Before you can have a reaction to a particular substance, your immune system must first be sensitized to it. This means that a bodys allergy can only be developed once it has been exposed to a substance.
Once sensitized, every time you have contact with that substance body reactions will appear. Allergic reactions can be caused by many substances. The most common are insect stings, mold, latex, medicines, animal dander, pollen, foods, dust and dust mites.
The allergens may cause different kinds of allergic skin reactions. The most common allergic conditions are hay fever, asthma, and skin allergy.
Airborne allergens cause hay fever, mold and the pollen of trees, grasses, and weeds amongst them.
Asthma attacks can be triggered by pollens, molds, and house dust.
Allergic skin reactions can have many possible causes. Examples of irritants that can cause allergy reactions when they touch your skin are dyes in leather or fabric, nickel in jewelry and belt buckles, hair or skin care products, and poison oak or poison ivy. Eczema is a dermal ailment that causes dryness, itching, fine scales or flaking, and in some cases mild redness. The cause of eczema is usually unknown.
Allergy skin symptoms can be caused by common foods like shellfish, nuts, eggs, milk, and peanuts. Food allergies often happen in children, who may outgrow them.
Sometimes an allergic reaction may be severe. This is termed anaphylaxis. In minutes, this condition can affect breathing and circulation, producing a life-threatening emergency. Some of the more common causes of severe allergic reactions are insect stings, certain foods, and drugs such as penicillin.
What are the symptoms?
The symptoms of an allergic reaction depend on the type and severity of the reaction. Common symptoms of allergies are watery eyes, itching, stomach cramps, swelling, sneezing, rash, stuffy or runny nose, and diarrhea.
How are they diagnosed?
Your healthcare provider will ask about your history of symptoms and skin reactions, and examine you.
You may have tests to find out which allergens are causing your allergies. Skin scratch or prick tests are the preferred alternatives for most patients. Tiny amounts of suspected allergens are placed under your skin to look for reactions. To help find what you are allergic to, you may require to have blood tests.
To identify a food allergy, your provider may suggest that you try to find which foods cause a reaction by not eating certain foods for a while. By eating these foods again, one by one, you will find the source of your problems.
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Published May 9th, 2008
Filed in Health