During the changes of station is the so-called “allergy season”, those of us prone they usually be during these times of the year. While one of the solutions is to maintain our home clean and healthy, obsessed with cleanliness is not the solution.
When you are obsessive cleaning can contribute to the emergence of allergies. Asthma, eczema, hives and allergic reactions more common increase in developed countries because of its obsession with cleanliness.
Those parts of the world, whose sanitary conditions are stable, tend to keep the levels of allergies can also stable. It is an inverse relationship between the level of hygiene and the increase of allergies and diseases of the immune system.
The more obsessive is the cleaning in the environment in which a child, the greater the opportunities that this child develop allergies or a problem with your immune system along his life. (more…)

Allergies are disorders of the immune system, like the autoimmune diseases. Occur when the defenses of our agency exaggeratedly react to certain substances normally harmless in the environment, such as pollen, animal dander, medicines, food, smells, or particulate air carriers. Almost anything can trigger an allergic reaction, which can vary from mild and annoying to sudden and dangerous for life.
The autoimmune diseases are those in which our immune system works in a way abnormal reacting to some cells of our body as if they were “enemies”. In the case of allergies happens something like; the body reacts in a disproportionate compared with substances that do not represent any danger to our health.
The incidence of allergies as of the disorders of the immune system are increasing significantly throughout the world, it is believed that due to changes in food production, transport and others. Among some important data, we can mention:
* The number of children diagnosed with allergic dermatitis in the U.S. has increased from 3 per cent in the years 60 to 10 per cent in the 90.
* In Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark and Japan has also been recorded a marked increase in the affections allergic.
* The increase in the asthma has been thoroughly documented. In the U.S. reached around 30 per cent between 1980 and 1987. Between 1990 and 1992, the number of people in this country who declared suffers from asthma increased from 10.4 to 12.4 million. The asthma is much more prevalent among African American children than among white children (a 26 percent more frequent). From 1980 to 1987, deaths from asthma in the U.S. increased by 30 per cent.
* It also has increased in Australia, Canada, Britain and New Zealand. The same way as the asthma, in the U.S., the mortality rates are higher among minorities: in the period between 1982 and 1992, African-Americans were three times more likely to die of asthma than whites.
* French investigators noted that in France between 1984 and 1992 the severe allergies to food had been largely caused by allergens hidden in the meals very prosecuted.
The substances involved in the increase in the disorders of the immune system are environmental toxins, both the airlines such as those contained in food. Japanese scientists, investigating the alarming increase in allergies to pollen in his country since the 1950S, have shown that exposure to diesel emissions exacerbates the responses allergic to pollen.

Causes
It is believed that diets very unbalanced and filled with additives can be one of the causes, it is therefore recommends eliminating of our diet all those foods and products with chemical additives, and those that may lead some type of allergy as the cow’s milk and dairy products in general, soy or soy, coffee, orange, peppers, eggplant, etc. We must include mostly food antioxidants, like fruits and vegetables, and reduce the saturated fats.
But mainly, we need to learn to listen to our body, to determine that things can cause allergies. Then, detailed some common detonating:
Pollen
The exposure to the pollen from trees, grasses and herbs can trigger the hay fever or seasonal allergies. Symptoms include sneezing, runny nose, nasal congestion, itching and teary eyes. The treatments include medicines for free sale, medical prescriptions, and allergy shots. The symptoms can be prevented, staying at home in the days of movies when pollen is high, closing the windows, and using the air conditioning.
Animal Dander
The proteins secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin of an animal and present in their saliva can cause allergic reactions to some. The allergy can take two or more years to develop and symptoms may not disappear until months after contact with the animal. If your pet is causing allergies, make your bedroom a site free of pets, avoid carpets, and bathe the animals regularly. A HEPA filter and vacuuming often can also help. Allergy shots can be beneficial. (more…)

The hygiene is basic to our health, in addition to have a significant burden cultural and education: a person who is not neat or walk with dirty clothes we can cause some repulsion. But the excesses are not good, and the excess of hygiene, either. Although you seem unusual, can cause allergies.

Our immune system is reinforces the more works. His struggle with antibodies keeps you alert. To a force of clean, we are exposed to bacteria that before our defenses knew and eliminated and that now, for lack of custom, they attack us and cause diseases like asthma, dermatitis or rhinitis.

A baby to raise in an environment totally aseptic will have a weakened immune system that has not learned to fight with external actors, so that, instead of avoiding the diseases such as just a cold, we are leaving exposed to other that can be, in the long run, chronicles and more serious.

Moreover, the bacteria become accustomed to the cleaning products and become more and more resistant. The only thing that succeeds with this is that for disinfecting a surface or an object every time we need to use products more strong and aggressive which in turn we bother us. (more…)

An allergy represents sensitivity to a substance normally harmless, which did not bother to most of the people, the allergen or foreign substance that causes a reaction, can be a food, dust particles, a drug, poison of insects, mold spores, as well as the pollen and people with allergies often have a sensitivity to more than a substance.

The plants produce microscopic grains round or oval called pollen to reproduce and in some species, the plant uses the pollen from their own flowers to fertilize itself, but there are other types of cross-pollination, in which to produce the fertilization pollen must be transferred from the flower of a plant to another plant in the same species.

Being the insects that make this work for certain plants with flowers, while other plants are based on the transport of movies, transforming it last situation in the responsible to the allergic reactions. (more…)

The most common forms of CAM include acupuncture, homeopathic medicines, medicinal herbal and yoga, this increase in the use of the various therapies, appears to be based on various factors, but basically in the belief that the CAM is safe, natural and without side effects.

The acupuncture is a part of the Chinese medicine and is used for many chronic diseases, including the allergic rhinitis and asthma. The process involves the insertion of needles in the skin in exact spots in the body, which is supposed to redress the balance of the flows vital”, but from the point of view scientific, studies, on the timely allergies should be stepped up much more.

A study in children, with 3 months of acupuncture treatment and 3 months of follow-up after treatment, showed benefit in children who received the “true” acupuncture, although still needed the same amount of medication for their allergies.

The medicinal products based on plants, based on various supplements of herbs that have been used in the treatment of allergies and asthma, have also showing some benefits and many of the medications used to treat various medical problems are derived from plants and herbs, including the theophylline (always used to treat asthma). (more…)