“Chronic nasal congestion, sneezing, rashes, swollen lips, swollen face as well as asthma or urticaria considered as allergic symptoms. However, even they are harmfulless to the body but they can interrupt your daily routine such as working or studying. Some of patients may have severe asthma that can lead them to oxygen deficiency.
How to Cure The Symptoms and Maintain Right Treatment?
The allergic symptoms happen when the body exposed or touched by allergens through different channels such as exhaling which contribute stimulation of the symptoms the body then will release histamine that cause symptoms like breathing difficulty, breathing discomfort, itching or urticaria etc.
Dust; One of Triggers
Those who have allergic symptoms can react to the allergens differently for instance, feeling itchy around the eyes, runny nose, sneezing, nasal congestion, sore throat or asthma and chest pain.
Mentioned reactions can simply shown the cause that it could not be anything but the dust. Doctors often find that after patients done from sleep their breathing have already taken the dust into the respiratory organs so that when they wake up the symptoms start to appear. Moreover, when they arrived at a hospital they will receive more oxygen which promote and cure the symptoms.
Dust Allergy; Signs of Asthma and Respiratory Tract Infection
The reason that most of Thais have this disease is due to they may overlook about the causes like dust mite in beddings or from furs of their pets which this animal loves eating dead skin of human, scurf and dandruff.
When we breath or our skin touched by dead mite, it contains many proteins our body then have to produce antibodies, which release a substance called histamine that causes swelling and irritation to the upper respiratory tract. This is the symptoms of respiratory inflammation and asthma. The allergy can be transferred to next generation which include asthma, nasal inflammation. Cause symptoms, severe skin allergic reaction with red rash and thick skin.
Other Reasons for Allergic Reaction:
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- Cockroaches and their feces in the home are associated with severity of asthma. The protein in their saliva is a key allergen.
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- Dogs or cats: Generally, we think their hair cause us allergy but that is incorrect as what actually cause the symptoms is protein in scurf, saliva and urine. Such symptoms include sneezing, nasal congestion, breathing discomfort, itching, tearing or runny nose. Reactions happens within 30 minutes right after touching the animals, mostly found in those bringing their pets in bed or those working with animals like vet or those cutting dog hair.
- Fungi: Overreaction happens through respiratory tract and show signs of respiratory disease, such as nasal congestion ,runny nose, or asthma. Some have severe symptoms like swollen face.
How can we know what we are allergic to?
This can be known by allergy testing divided into two methods as follows:
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- Skin Prick Test: It is a drop of substance that later the skin will be pricked by needle which is fast and painless and it does cause allergy to the body.
- Intradermal Test: It is small injection into the skin which is more difficult and time consuming more hurtful and requires more equipments. At the same time, there is more risk of allergies throughout the body than the first method.
Allergen substances used by doctors include American Cockroach, German Cockroach, Dog Epithelium, Standarded Cat Pelt, House Dust Concentrate, Cotton Linters, Kapok, Standardized mite (D.Farinae), Standardized mite (D.Pleronnyssinus), Standardized Timothy, Standardized bermude Grass, Careless weed test, Acacia gum, Candida albicans, Mix Aspergillus, Clad Cladosporiodes, Mixed Skin Test (Chick Duck goose), Mixed Shellfish, Shrimp Shrimp, Lobster Crab, Peanut,Nuts, Wheat Grain, Wheat Flour, Johns Grass, Histamine and NSS / Negative Control
If anyone has symptoms above and stay in environment that contribute to allergic reaction recommended to see a doctor to receive a proper treatment provided by a doctor.
Allergy Center Phyathai Sriracha Hospital opens for counseling right prevention to reduce the symptoms along with advices and treatment plan for the best resulting.
