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Allergy, hay fever - if the defense is turned upside down

What is an allergy?

An allergy is an overreaction of immune cells to usually harmless substances that are often ubiquitous in the environment and healthy affect in any way. The allergy can have an impact on all interfaces between the environment and inner world. Such interfaces are the skin, the mucous in the airways and the gastrointestinal tract and the conjunctiva. Allergic reactions can also occur in the body after ingestion of allergy-timer into the blood or the tissue. They range from the harmless but annoying itch of a severe impairment of well-being or even life-threatening forms of shock.

The specialty of allergy is the immune system to an intruder actually harmless stimulus or "crazy" plays. It does so beyond his real goal is to eliminate disease-causing pathogens or only poisons. This can in extreme cases, even against the body's own tissues depend.

The most common causes and symptoms of allergy

An allergy is not usually cover all the pollen, but more or less limited categories, such as on one or more grasses to flower, herb or tree pollen. The allergenic substance in each case a protein that can also put in food. An allergy to pollen, hazel, which leads to hay fever may be accompanied by an allergy to nuts, which is expressed in a furry feeling on the tongue, stomach cramps or diarrhea (so-called cross-allergy).

When allergies are triggered?

The pollen on the wind in the heyday spread over vast areas, so that one can hardly escape them.
A similar widespread allergy is a hypersensitivity reaction to house dust. Here it is the droppings of house dust mite allergy triggers and maintains. The mites are tiny arachnids that live virtually everywhere in the house dust, particularly residing in carpets, bedding, mattresses and upholstered furniture.
Dander from pets to cause animal dander, for example to guinea pigs, cats, but also cattle, horses, dogs and other pets.
Flour and wood dust are mostly allergens that are noticeable, especially at high occupational exposure to these dusts. Both at home and at work are allergens that trigger allergies, as well as immediate-type contact allergy on the skin (delayed type), especially in chemicals such as solvents, dyes, wood preservatives and coatings, question. The immune system does not distinguish between "natural" and "synthetically" includes both natural products and "chemistry" can affect allergen.
In the food allergy proteins are made of cow's milk, egg, fish, yeast, grains, legumes (soy) and nuts at the top, are less common such as allergies to molds (also known as white mold and the refining of juices used!), Meat, fruit, spices and herbs, dyes, or preservatives.
Cause contact dermatitis, the itchy areas on the skin, are often of nickel, rubber (latex), caused dyes, ingredients in personal care products and cosmetics or pharmaceuticals.

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