Allergy | Causes, diagnosis, treatment

Allergy is that condition is which the immune system responds with violence at harmless agents, due to a misinterpretation which triggers the release of a chemical called histamine in the body, and which attacks the body cells, the mastocytes and blastocytes, causing severe symptoms, leading even to life threatening ones, and even to death.

One of the symptoms is asthma, a condition which prevents air to circulate freely in the airways, thus provoking suffocation, if the patient does not take medication such as inhalants or Omazulimab products. This kind of asthma which is caused by allergies has been called allergic asthma, and it is very hard to diagnose if the person in cause does not know she is an allergic. The asthma allergies are causing can start to manifest in late childhood, but this is not the rule. Many patients are diagnosed with allergic asthma when they are at an adult age. This is an excerpt from a prestigious online medical publication, regarding the allergy asthma topic:

Allergic asthma is the most common type of asthma. About 90% of kids with childhood asthma have allergies, compared with about 50% of adults. Inhaling specific substances called allergens (allergy triggers, such as pollen, mites, or molds) brings on the asthma symptoms associated with allergic asthma. Nearly everyone with asthma (allergic or nonallergic) gets worse after exercising in cold air or after inhaling any type of smoke, dust, fumes, and sometimes strong smells.

(Source: WebMD.com)

It is very important that the diagnosis is set correctly from an early stage, when doctors can still do something to alleviate the symptoms, because as time passes, the patient gets more and more sensitized to the respective allergens which trigger that allergic reaction of chocking and suffocation, being possible to leave sequels that can never be cured.

Childhood disease or not, allergic asthma is easier to prevent that to treat.

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