My cousin used to work with birds on a farm and over time developed bird allergy; although mainly pet allergy manifests itself in cases and situations with dogs and cats, this condition is common for people who work on bird farms or at the zoos where they keep birds as well. Bird allergy is the reaction of your body’s resistance system to so-called feather dust – stuff that flies around birds to put it simple.
When you are allergic to birds, feather dust turns into an allergen which is strongly undesirable to keep close to your body for it causes damage to your general health. With regard to this damage brought on by bird allergy and its symptoms, it’s important to note that when my cousin suffered from it, he didn’t pay close attention to them thinking that they are some minor health shakes connected with weather or just extra stress at work.
Signs of bird allergy are either mild or more severe. The former are sneezing, sleep disorders, sore throat, running nose, itchy and watery eyes with dark areas around them. With regard to more adverse signs of bird allergy, they are materialized in many dangerous conditions which can even sometimes prompt lethal outcomes – in extreme cases that is. When a person is continuously exposed to these allergens he/she may develop constant cough, breathing difficulties, loss of weight which is not peculiar or explainable etc.
With regard to the issue of treatment, don’t start treating anything before your doc confirms that you actually suffer from bird allergy. There are cases when allergy disappears without any attempts to cure it; in the majority of cases the best remedy is to keep yourself away from birds you are allergic to.
вторник, 17 февраля 2009 г.
воскресенье, 8 февраля 2009 г.
Allergic to Pets? Read On!
Do you think that you are allergic to cats? If your suspicions and desire to get the best remedy are strong here, I’m sure you’ll be very interested in reading my tips on the subject, find them below!
Before doing anything about your pet allergy – before working on its treatment you should make sure if you actually suffer from pet allergy or not. In order to do it you should go to a doctor and answer all his/her questions. Are you feeling much better (not suffering from adverse symptoms) when your pet is at bay? It’s vitally important to make sure here because this certainty will point out at your most rational further actions.
Of course, the bestest way to fight your pet allergy is avoid getting too close to pets – remove a pet from your home or remove yourself from your pet – depends on your priorities and choices. If you just cannot lose your pet and already treat it as a beloved member of your family, prevent it to hang out at least in the room where you spend most of your time i.e. bedroom. Make sure that your apartment is always clean – just to avoid too much pets’ stuff (hair etc.) floating in the air and resting pseudo-peacefully on the surfaces of your furniture. Mind that there are special vacuum cleaners for pet-owners, consider using them as well.
In case the pet you are most allergic to resides in the flat/house of your best friend, reconsider frequent visits to your friend’s home. Go out together instead – do shopping, play football, tennis, anything that will keep you away from the pet and i.e. prevent your allergy symptoms. Don’t hesitate to talk to your pet-owning friends for them to be aware of your allergy symptoms. As a result they will be ready to accept you in their home with a pet in another room.
Remember that all these easy tips to avoid your pet allergy are useful when combined with useful doctor’s advice and possibly even medications from a medical specialist.
Before doing anything about your pet allergy – before working on its treatment you should make sure if you actually suffer from pet allergy or not. In order to do it you should go to a doctor and answer all his/her questions. Are you feeling much better (not suffering from adverse symptoms) when your pet is at bay? It’s vitally important to make sure here because this certainty will point out at your most rational further actions.
Of course, the bestest way to fight your pet allergy is avoid getting too close to pets – remove a pet from your home or remove yourself from your pet – depends on your priorities and choices. If you just cannot lose your pet and already treat it as a beloved member of your family, prevent it to hang out at least in the room where you spend most of your time i.e. bedroom. Make sure that your apartment is always clean – just to avoid too much pets’ stuff (hair etc.) floating in the air and resting pseudo-peacefully on the surfaces of your furniture. Mind that there are special vacuum cleaners for pet-owners, consider using them as well.
In case the pet you are most allergic to resides in the flat/house of your best friend, reconsider frequent visits to your friend’s home. Go out together instead – do shopping, play football, tennis, anything that will keep you away from the pet and i.e. prevent your allergy symptoms. Don’t hesitate to talk to your pet-owning friends for them to be aware of your allergy symptoms. As a result they will be ready to accept you in their home with a pet in another room.
Remember that all these easy tips to avoid your pet allergy are useful when combined with useful doctor’s advice and possibly even medications from a medical specialist.
воскресенье, 1 февраля 2009 г.
Your Pet and Allergies
Your pet is the member of your family just like your little sis or bro. And of course it hurts you to watch your puppy or kitten suffer from certain diseases, unpleasant conditions or discomforts.
That’s why as a (potential) pet owner you must know that animals suffer from allergies just like us humans. Your pet may suffer from both seasonal and stable allergies which imply the following allergens: plants, trees, flowers; food, insects, dust – anything your pet may come across with either outside or within the boundaries of your dwelling.
What is peculiar, your pet may have several types of allergies simultaneously. Although there is no stable cure for allergies, you should still consider immunotherapy for it will help you tame the little member’s of your family allergies.
Typically diagnosing your pet’s allergies imply a proper examination by a vet, that prompts paying special attention to a pet’s skin problems. Be prepared to tell your vet what you feed your pet with, if this condition is permanent or temporary (seasonal), or if it is especially adverse outside or inside your dwelling.
In order to track down the symptoms and signs which may indicate that your pet suffers from allergies, you must be very attentive to its behavior. Most common signs are biting, scratching, rubbing, feet chewing. For instance, if your dog suffers from allergy, you will observe it scratching its belly, rubbing its face and (or) chewing on its paws till they are inflamed. As a rule, these signs lead to hair loss or infections which manifest themselves in hair loss, skin and ear diseases.
Remember that we are immensely responsible for our pets, and do your best to take a good care of their health.
That’s why as a (potential) pet owner you must know that animals suffer from allergies just like us humans. Your pet may suffer from both seasonal and stable allergies which imply the following allergens: plants, trees, flowers; food, insects, dust – anything your pet may come across with either outside or within the boundaries of your dwelling.
What is peculiar, your pet may have several types of allergies simultaneously. Although there is no stable cure for allergies, you should still consider immunotherapy for it will help you tame the little member’s of your family allergies.
Typically diagnosing your pet’s allergies imply a proper examination by a vet, that prompts paying special attention to a pet’s skin problems. Be prepared to tell your vet what you feed your pet with, if this condition is permanent or temporary (seasonal), or if it is especially adverse outside or inside your dwelling.
In order to track down the symptoms and signs which may indicate that your pet suffers from allergies, you must be very attentive to its behavior. Most common signs are biting, scratching, rubbing, feet chewing. For instance, if your dog suffers from allergy, you will observe it scratching its belly, rubbing its face and (or) chewing on its paws till they are inflamed. As a rule, these signs lead to hair loss or infections which manifest themselves in hair loss, skin and ear diseases.
Remember that we are immensely responsible for our pets, and do your best to take a good care of their health.
вторник, 27 января 2009 г.
Dust Allergy: Make it Bite the Dust!
Dust is creepy to deal with – even if you are not allergic to it. If you are a person with an average income and can’t afford another person to bite… ahem to wipe and shoot and strangle the dust in your house or apartment, then you are supposed to have a long-term and complicated relation with this regenerating parasite. You wipe it wipe it wipe it till you suddenly start sneezing once or twice at first, then you sneeze harder and juicier and then you notice the symptoms of dust allergy…
So are their main manifestations? Typically dust allergy acquires the form of asthma – one of the most well-known allergic reactions. To be more precise, it usually accompanies asthma. Symptoms of dust allergy are easy to notice. You find it really hard to breathe when ‘interacting’ with the dust, sometimes it causes skin itchiness and unusually excessive sneezing.
Often people think that dust allergy is something trivial and very insignificant – most probably due to the fact that it’s not considered a disease, just a reaction of human body to these featherlike snowflakes of dry dirt… However, everyone must realize that neglecting the issue can lead to very harmful consequences, especially if dust allergy is accompanied by such unusual symptom as fever. The latter case must be immediately discussed with your doctor who will take necessary measures to save you from dust-attack.
As for preventive measures of dust allergy, certainly, it implies avoidance – just as it happens with any kind of allergy. Say no to exposure to dust and make sure your house is clean and your personal hygiene is sophisticated enough for dust to bite the dust disarmed by the power of your inside-out cleanness.
So are their main manifestations? Typically dust allergy acquires the form of asthma – one of the most well-known allergic reactions. To be more precise, it usually accompanies asthma. Symptoms of dust allergy are easy to notice. You find it really hard to breathe when ‘interacting’ with the dust, sometimes it causes skin itchiness and unusually excessive sneezing.
Often people think that dust allergy is something trivial and very insignificant – most probably due to the fact that it’s not considered a disease, just a reaction of human body to these featherlike snowflakes of dry dirt… However, everyone must realize that neglecting the issue can lead to very harmful consequences, especially if dust allergy is accompanied by such unusual symptom as fever. The latter case must be immediately discussed with your doctor who will take necessary measures to save you from dust-attack.
As for preventive measures of dust allergy, certainly, it implies avoidance – just as it happens with any kind of allergy. Say no to exposure to dust and make sure your house is clean and your personal hygiene is sophisticated enough for dust to bite the dust disarmed by the power of your inside-out cleanness.
суббота, 17 января 2009 г.
Tracking Food Allergy Down
Food allergy symptoms are not always easily recognizable. They are very often confused with food intolerance or even cases of food poisoning due to the fact that the symptoms of these three phenomena are often very similar. Adam and eve it or not, but only one out of seventy people really suffer from non-confused-with-anything-else food allergy. That’s why it’s important to be able to learn to tell true food allergy from other disorders.
In the majority of cases food allergy ‘attacks’ kids and is connected with immune system’s inability to get satisfaction from certain products it is fed with the whole process being accompanied by negative reaction of the body to certain food. What are this reaction’s main markers? Read on and you’ll find out.
Allergic reaction may start right after you have eaten something you are allergic to, however, the symptoms will most likely knock on your condition’s ‘door’ a bit later, sometimes it even takes them a few hours to arrive.
First and foremost, initial symptoms of classic food allergy are swelling and itching in the mouth (that especially implies tongue and throat itching). Often food allergies affect skin, cause diarrhea, vomiting, running nose, sickly red and itchy eyes.
There’s such a thing as anaphylactic shock which is the severest allergic reaction. It manifests itself in loss of consciousness, breathing difficulties, blood pressure lowering. If a person is not provided with proper medical assistance, the chances of lethal outcome are very high. That’s why it’s vitally essential to react to your body’s allergic reactions immediately. In case you still doubt whether you’re having food allergy or not and need more tangible evidence, consult your doctor for further tests and analyses.
In the majority of cases food allergy ‘attacks’ kids and is connected with immune system’s inability to get satisfaction from certain products it is fed with the whole process being accompanied by negative reaction of the body to certain food. What are this reaction’s main markers? Read on and you’ll find out.
Allergic reaction may start right after you have eaten something you are allergic to, however, the symptoms will most likely knock on your condition’s ‘door’ a bit later, sometimes it even takes them a few hours to arrive.
First and foremost, initial symptoms of classic food allergy are swelling and itching in the mouth (that especially implies tongue and throat itching). Often food allergies affect skin, cause diarrhea, vomiting, running nose, sickly red and itchy eyes.
There’s such a thing as anaphylactic shock which is the severest allergic reaction. It manifests itself in loss of consciousness, breathing difficulties, blood pressure lowering. If a person is not provided with proper medical assistance, the chances of lethal outcome are very high. That’s why it’s vitally essential to react to your body’s allergic reactions immediately. In case you still doubt whether you’re having food allergy or not and need more tangible evidence, consult your doctor for further tests and analyses.
вторник, 6 января 2009 г.
Mini-Guide to Allergies
Allergy is a wide-spread disease nowadays. It deals with our immune system and its (in)ability to protect us from the infection. If our immune system doesn’t work properly, it becomes hyper-sensitive even to some things which are typically not harmful. These things are called allergens – causes of allergies.
The main forms of allergies are chronic and nasal allergies. Other types are skin, food, plant, drug allergies. The symptoms of allergies depend on their forms. They can be represented by such negative reactions of our bodies as: heavy sneezing, stuffy nose, headache, itching, fatigue etc.
Let’s investigate the issue on the example of food allergy. Food allergy is manifested by negative reaction of a person’s body to certain food. According to statistics, the most common food allergy type is a peanut allergy. Symptoms of food allergy are hives, swelling, wheezing, itching in the mouth, abdominal cramps. Once a person notices these symptoms he or she must visit a doctor immediately.
One of the best ways to prevent our allergy’s fitful and furious attacks is the so-called allergy prophylactics i.e. being careful with products and/or substances that make you feel sick by simply avoiding getting close to them. There are also chemical killers of your allergens represented by different medications.
One can also make the most of natural supplements which are often very helpful when it’s about boosting your immune system. Try the latter first and switch to the former ones in case natural supplements don’t work – just to be sure you’ve done your best to protect your body from needless chemistry. Remember that you will manage to effectively fight with your allergies only when you approach the issue seriously and sensibly.
The main forms of allergies are chronic and nasal allergies. Other types are skin, food, plant, drug allergies. The symptoms of allergies depend on their forms. They can be represented by such negative reactions of our bodies as: heavy sneezing, stuffy nose, headache, itching, fatigue etc.
Let’s investigate the issue on the example of food allergy. Food allergy is manifested by negative reaction of a person’s body to certain food. According to statistics, the most common food allergy type is a peanut allergy. Symptoms of food allergy are hives, swelling, wheezing, itching in the mouth, abdominal cramps. Once a person notices these symptoms he or she must visit a doctor immediately.
One of the best ways to prevent our allergy’s fitful and furious attacks is the so-called allergy prophylactics i.e. being careful with products and/or substances that make you feel sick by simply avoiding getting close to them. There are also chemical killers of your allergens represented by different medications.
One can also make the most of natural supplements which are often very helpful when it’s about boosting your immune system. Try the latter first and switch to the former ones in case natural supplements don’t work – just to be sure you’ve done your best to protect your body from needless chemistry. Remember that you will manage to effectively fight with your allergies only when you approach the issue seriously and sensibly.
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