What
is Allergy
An
Allergy is a hypersensitive response of the body to certain substances,
called allergens. These allergens can be of plant origin such as pollens,
animal origin such as dander (scales shed from the skin, hair, or fur of
animals), and insect origin such as the stings of bees and wasps, or the
dust mites themselves. House dust, smog, smoke, and some strong odors may
trigger allergies. Drugs like penicillins and cephalosporins evoke allergic
reactions in sensitive patients. Food allergies are also extremely common
and vary individualistically from animal sources like eggs, milk, and sea
food to plant sources such as eggplant, drumstick, and wheat. Allergens can
be inhaled, eaten, injected, or contacted by the skin.
Signs and symptoms of Allergies
The
body's defense mechanism is considering simple and otherwise harmless
substances to be potentially dangerous and is preparing for battle by
producing a particular type of antibody called IgE in large amounts but in a
way that on exposure to an allergen for the first time, only its memory
remains. However, on subsequent exposure, an allergic response is manifested
in the form of signs and symptoms depending on the tissue, organ, or system
involved. All these are due to the release of a chemical substance called
Histamine by some body cells under the influence of IgE, thus inducing
congestion, excessive secretion, and muscle spasms. The most common examples
are those of Asthma (a respiratory allergy with wheezing and breathlessness)
and Eczema(a skin allergy with eruptions, itching, oozing, etc.)
Causes of Allergies
Although modern medicine claims that allergies and most of the other chronic
diseases have a hereditary predisposition to blame, homeopaths and
naturopaths all over the world believe that every disease is multi-factorial
in origin. Health according to them is a dynamic state of physical, mental,
and spiritual equilibrium where a homeostasis is maintained in spite of a
continuous influx and interaction of the opposing or negative energies with
the life perpetuating ones through harmoniously orchestrated processes that
are so subtle that they can hardly be perceived. In simple words, other than
one's genes, the lifestyle, diet and regimen, psychological state of a
person, and degree of exposure to toxins or irritants, together contribute
to giving rise to an allergic personality. Thus logically speaking, it is
the immunity at fault and not the allergen. In fact, observations show that
in most cases, once an allergic disposition is acquired, the body gradually
begins to react hypersensitivity to more and more substances so as to only
add to the medical list of allergens. Hence, it can be easily surmised that
the remedial measures must be capable of bringing the deranged immunity back
to normal rather than expecting and advising the allergic patients to give
up or stay away from all the probable allergens.
Auxiliary treatment of Allergies
It
has been known for long that natural foods and natural living always pays
off good dividends probably because Mother Nature completely shoulders our
responsibility, but if it's the artificial that you cherish, then Mother
Nature will see that you perish. One doesn't really need to browse through
research documents to fathom the truth in this statement. All that one needs
to do is to go into retrospect and compare his or her life with that of his
or her grand parents. It's not that there were no illnesses then; however,
those illnesses were genuinely caused by miasma such as viruses, bacteria,
fungi, and parasites. These days, the number of allergic and auto-immune
disorders has gone up to such an extent that they beat all the natural
causes.
Following is a list of probable underlying causes that set the background
for the development of an allergy.
*
Regular exposure to pollutants in air, food, water, etc.
* Sedentary lifestyle which leads to impaired blood circulation and poor
oxygenation of the tissues.
* Lack of sleep.
* Injudicious administration of vaccines and allopathic medicines which are
after all foreign proteins and chemicals which have the capacity to alter
the immunity.
* Frequent negative or overpowering mental states such as depression,
anxiety, grief, fear, anger, irritability, despair, jealousy, etc.
* Improper external as well as internal hygiene inclusive of proper
bowel/bladder/sexual habits and avoidance of substance abuse in the form of
tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.
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