Showing posts with label Overview. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Overview. Show all posts

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Allergic Rhinitis Overview


Allergic rhinitis is a collection of symptoms, especially in the nose and eyes, that occur when you breathe in something you are allergic to such as dust, dander or pollen.

This article focuses on allergic rhinitis due to external triggers such as pollen from plants. This type of allergic rhinitis is commonly known as hay fever.

Cat Allergy Overview


Big cat allergen, called Fel d 1, can be found in cat saliva, hair, sebaceous glands of the skin, fur, and anal sebaceous glands. Cat allergens, such as albumin, found in urine, saliva and blood.

Allergy to cats is very common, occurring in more than 25 percent of allergy sufferers. Allergy to cats is more common than allergy to dog hair, which may be associated with hair and cat dander power, allergens as well as the fact that cats do not usually wet.

Tree Pollen Allergy Overview

TREE POLLEN ALLERGY
Trees are the largest producers of pollen, its pollen release in January in the southern states until May or June in the northern states.

Trees can aggravate your allergy symptoms, even if they are not on your property, since trees release large amounts of pollen that can be distributed miles away from the original source.

Allergies Overview

Allergies occur when the immune system reacts to a foreign substance such as pollen, bee venom, or pet dander.

The immune system produces substances known as antibodies. Some of these antibodies will protect against unwanted invaders that can make you sick or cause infection. When you have allergies, the immune system produces antibodies that specifically recognize nothing harmful allergen, even if it is not. When you come into contact with the allergen, the reaction of the immune system to inflame the skin, sinuses, respiratory tract or gastrointestinal tract.

The severity of allergies varies from person to person and can range from mild irritation to anaphylaxis - a life-threatening emergency. Although allergies can not be cured, treatments can help alleviate allergy symptoms.

Indoor Allergies Overview


Most people with asthma or hay fever or other allergies, think outside your home as a refuge where they can escape their allergies. Unfortunately, houses and buildings in the port of its own allergens (agents that cause allergy symptoms). The interior of your home made traps allergens, making it impossible to avoid.

While many of the allergens in the environment can cause allergy, house dust is the main cause of indoor allergies. What is house dust?

It depends on the type and age of your home, the temperature and humidity in the house, you keep at home (everything from food to clothing or furniture) and living at home (human animals and plants).

Some of the dust in every home, no matter how often or how thoroughly the house is clean.

House dust and air, which may contain small particles of soil and plants, indoors or outdoors, particles of human and animal skin (hair) and hair, fabric fibers, mold spores, dust mites, fragments of insects that have died and their waste, food scraps and other debris.

Although many substances in dust can trigger allergy symptoms, the most important allergens from dust mites inside, animal dander, cockroaches and molds.

While seasonal allergies like hay fever, allergies can last from within the year. Indoor allergens can cause or exacerbate asthma symptoms, according to the unique sensitivity of a person.

Indoor allergies tend to be worse in late summer, when the mites are at their peak.

Symptoms of allergy may actually be worse in winter, when windows are closed and people are in communion with the allergens.

Keep windows open at night during seasons of high levels of pollen and outdoor mold can aggravate your allergies or asthma symptoms, such as the high concentration of outdoor allergens are allowed to settle in your home.

If you are sensitive to indoor allergens, you are still signs all the time you are exposed to allergens.

Sensitivity to indoor allergens is very common and occurs in all ages. It is less common in children under 5 years. Those most likely to have allergic rhinitis are at the beginning of the school and early adult years.

Friday, August 12, 2011

House Dust Mite Allergy Overview


House dust is a part of who you are. House dust is not just dirt but a mixture of potentially allergenic materials, such as:

Fibre

Food waste

Mold spores

Pollini

Mites

Parts of plants and insects

Hair, animal hair and feathers

Saliva and urine of pets dry

Flakes of skin and feed.

The more time you spend inside, especially in autumn and winter, the greater your exposure to allergens in house dust.

Sun Allergy Overview

SUN ALLERGY
Sun allergy is a condition in which sunlight causes a reaction in the skin. For most people, allergy symptoms include itchy red rash Sun in areas that were exposed to the sun. Allergy to the sun can cause severe rash, blisters or other symptoms. There are several types of sun allergy - including Polymorphic Light Eruption (PLE), actinic prurigo, chronic actinic dermatitis (CAD) and solar urticaria.

Cockroach Allergy Overview

Cockroaches are insects that have been used for hundreds of millions of years, and are well known parasites that pollute human habitations. Also, carry a variety of bacteria that can infect humans, the cockroaches are known to cause or aggravate a variety of allergic diseases such as allergic rhinitis and asthma. While there are thousands of species of beetles, cockroaches American (Periplaneta americana and the scientific name) and the German cockroach (the scientific name Blatella Germanic) are more likely to cause allergies.

Nickel Allergy Overview

NICKEL ALLERGY
Allergy to nickel is one of the most common causes of allergic contact dermatitis - itchy skin that appears when you touch the substances normally harmless.

Nickel allergy is usually associated with earrings and other jewelry for piercings. However, nickel can be found in many everyday items - from coins collar closure, bracelets, spectacle frames.

Nickel allergy can affect people of all ages. Nickel allergy generally develops after repeated or prolonged exposure to items containing nickel. Treatments can reduce the symptoms of allergy to nickel. When you develop a nickel allergy, but you will always be sensitive to metal and should avoid contact.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Celiac Disease Overview


Celiac disease (SEE-lee-AK) The disease is a digestive condition triggered by consumption of gluten proteins, found primarily in breads, pasta, biscuits, pizza dough and many other foods containing wheat, barley or rye. People with celiac disease who eat foods containing gluten are having an immune response in the small intestine, causing damage to the inner surface of the small intestine and an inability to absorb certain nutrients.

Celiac disease can cause abdominal pain and diarrhea. Finally, the decreased absorption of nutrients (malabsorption) that occurs with celiac disease can cause vitamin deficiencies that deprive the brain, peripheral nervous system, bones, liver and other vital organs of nutrition.

The treatment can cure celiac disease. However, you can effectively manage celiac disease, modifying the diet.

Oral Allergy Syndrome Overview

ORAL ALLERGY
Oral allergy syndrome (OAS) is caused by cross-reactivity between proteins in fruits and vegetables and pollen. This syndrome occurs in large quantities (up to 70 percent) of people with pollen allergy. The proteins in fruits and vegetables because of the OAS is readily broken down during cooking or processing. Therefore, the OAS does not usually occur with cooked fruit or vegetables and baked, or fruits such as apples.

Insect Bites Allergy Overview

INSECT BITES ALLERGY
Stings and insect bites are common. Often resulting in redness and swelling in the injured area. Sometimes an injection can suffer life-threatening allergic reaction.

Arthropods are insects that live mainly on land and have 6 legs. They dominate the modern soil fauna. They represent about three-quarters of the known fauna. In fact, could the actual number of living species range from 5-10 million.

Subscriptions, which include the largest number of species are beetles (SYKE), farfalle (butterflies), Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps) and Diptera (flies true).

Bee Stings Allergy


Bee stings are a nuisance outdoors. In most cases, bee stings are simply boring and home treatment is all that is needed to relieve the pain of bee stings. But if you are allergic to bee or bitten many times, you can have a more severe reaction that requires emergency treatment. It can take several steps to avoid bee stings - and wasps and wasp stings - and how to deal with if they are bitten.

Corn Allergy Overview

CORN
Corn is a cereal protein similar to those of other cereals such as wheat. Unlike wheat, which is a common food allergen, there are relatively few reports of allergic reactions to wheat. Reactions, however, the reports show can be severe. These reports include anaphylaxis due to eating corn and corn related foods, and adverse reactions after exposure to cornstarch surgical gloves.

People with allergies to grains often show positive allergy tests to other cereals. But these tests are often false positive tests, which means no allergic reaction to eating a lot of other grains. It is important to realize however, that a positive allergy test puts a person at high risk of an allergic reaction to food and food should be eaten only if they are directed by a physician.

Latex Allergy Overview

LATEX ALLERGY
Latex allergy is a reaction to certain proteins found in natural rubber latex, a product consisting of a milky liquid that flows the rubber tree. If you have an allergy to latex, latex body mistakes for harmful substances.

Allergy to latex can cause allergic reactions ranging from sneezing or a runny nose to anaphylaxis, a potentially fatal condition. Your doctor can determine if you have a latex allergy or are at risk of developing latex allergy.

Understanding latex allergy and to become familiar with common sources of latex to help prevent allergic reactions, or as someone else.

Alcohol Allergy Overview

ALCOHOL
Intolerance to alcohol can cause immediate and unpleasant reactions after drinking alcohol. The most common symptoms caused by intolerance to alcohol include nasal congestion and redness of the skin. This condition is sometimes incorrectly called an alcohol allergy. Alcohol intolerance is caused by a genetic disease where the body is unable to remove the alcohol. The only way to prevent alcohol intolerance is to avoid alcohol completely.

In some cases, it may seem that alcohol intolerance is caused by a reaction to more than one alcoholic drink - such as chemicals, grains or preservatives. In other cases, the reactions are caused by alcohol combined with certain medications. Rarely, reactions to alcohol may be a sign of a serious underlying health problem that requires diagnosis and treatment.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Grass Allergy Overview


Grass allergy is one of the most common and widespread allergy that affects people with a history that during certain times of the year.

Grass allergy normally occurs during the spring season beginning or end of the summer season. Allergy to something directly related to the grass hay fever, because of their symptoms and causes are somehow similar.

Grass allergy can occur in inhalant allergy similar to asthma.

Grass allergy is caused by an allergen that invokes discomforting reaction upon body contact.

Scorpion Allergy Overview

As with other biting insects such as bees and yellow jackets, scorpion stings is also known to sometimes cause allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis. In many cases, allergic reactions to scorpion stings are wrongly attributed to neurotoxins is a poison.

Allergy Scorpion is a negative immune system of a scorpion sting. Several stings increase the risk of a severe reaction or death.

Mosquito Bites Allergy Overview


Mosquitoes - and mosquito bites - are annoying. Worse, sometimes biting mosquitoes that transmit diseases like West Nile virus, malaria and dengue.

It is very likely to get mosquito bites at dawn or dusk, when mosquitoes are most active. But it is not always possible or desirable to stay indoors during those times. Fortunately, you can take steps to ward off mosquitoes.

However, no method is foolproof. If you are bitten, the signs and symptoms of mosquito bites - redness, itching and swelling - may not appear until two days after being bitten.

A number of treatments such as oral antihistamines and topical lotions may relieve itching from mosquito bites.

Pet Allergy Overview

Pet allergy is an allergic reaction to proteins in the cells of the animal skin, saliva or urine. PET signs of allergy are as common as hay fever, sneezing and runny nose. Some people may also experience the signs of asthma such as wheezing and difficulty breathing.

Pet allergy is the most common caused by exposure to dead skin flakes (dander) an animal shelter. Any animal hair can be a source of pet allergies, but allergies to animals are most commonly associated with cats, dogs, rodents and horses.

If you have a pet allergy, the best strategy is to avoid or reduce exposure to the animal as much as possible. Or other drug treatments may be needed to relieve symptoms and manage asthma.