I often wonder why food allergies can kill us, while seasonal allergies just make us wish we were dead.
There are four ways in which you can present an allergic reaction:
Ingested Allergies, food allergies or medication
Injected Allergies, insect bites and stings and medication
Contact Allergies, contact with your skin
Inhaled Allergies, airborne allergens like pollen
Ingested Allergies are usually Food Allergies:
Medically viewed as food hypersensitivity - this is when your immune system shows an intolerance to a food. Food allergies are most often caused by cow's milk, nuts, eggs, and fruit. Children who develop Ingested Allergies are more likely to develop other allergies later in life.
Symptoms of food allergies can be mild, as is the case with hives after eating strawberries. Other symptoms can include red, itchy, and inflamed skin—a condition called hives. More severe symptoms of ingested allergies may include abdominal cramps, vomiting, or diarrhea accompanied by a rash, swelling of the lips or eyes which appears and disappears quickly, or, in very rare cases, anaphylactic shock: a sudden, extreme allergic reaction that may result in death. Anaphylaxis is the extreme reaction. This is a rapidly progressing allergic reaction than can be treated quickly and relieved but could lead to death without treatment.
Contact Allergies often mistaken for Irritants
There are many products we use everyday, often cleansers or lotions, that irritate our skin. The degree to which a substance is an allergen or an irritant is narrow. Common irritants include soaps, detergents, hair dyes, jewelry, solvents, waxes, or polishes. Natural allergens include poison oak, poison ivy, and ragweed.
Symptoms may include redness, itching, swelling, scaling, or blistering. Treatment is simple including appropriate over the counter creams and ointments. If symptoms continue past 3 days, you should seek medical attention.
Inhaled Allergies are often referred to as Seasonal
These are the allergies that change with geographic location or weather. They include allergies to cats and dogs, trees, weeds and grasses. They are literally the tiny particles you can inhale.
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