All of you must have heard about allergies. Many of you might have seen that while some may have experienced!
Well, This is something really common to heard about. Very easy to talk about. But is that easy to treat effectively???
Look, anti-histaminics and avoidance of triggering substances are but NOT the long term solutions!? It is true, we can't avoid them but at the same time we can't have unrealistic expectations either!
Wikipedia refers allergy as a number of conditions which is caused by hypersensitivity of the immune system to typically harmless substances in the environment.
Oxford dictionary refers allergy as a damaging immune response by the body to a substance, especially pollen, fur, a particular food, or dust, to which it has become hypersensitive.
While looking back into the history, as mentioned in 1st edition of the essentials of immunology by Dr. S K Gupta, term "Allergy" was coined in 1906 by Clement Von Pirquet to designate altered reactivity in same persons to the introduction of foreign substances with in the body. So ‘Hypersensitivity’ or ‘hyper responsiveness’, results from the interaction of an antigen with Humoral antibody.
Allergy has two words ‘Allos’ and ‘Eargen’, together form the term allergy. ‘Allos’ means altered and ‘eargen’ means reaction. Hence, allergy means “altered reaction”. In other words, allergy is an immune response against one or several environmental substances during which different mechanisms will provoke the interaction of the chemical mediators leading to some clinical symptoms.
Allergy has two words ‘Allos’ and ‘Eargen’, together form the term allergy. ‘Allos’ means altered and ‘eargen’ means reaction. Hence, allergy means “altered reaction”. In other words, allergy is an immune response against one or several environmental substances during which different mechanisms will provoke the interaction of the chemical mediators leading to some clinical symptoms.
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For the purpose of management, A state of balance in the immune responses (Humoral or cell – mediated) is essential for protection against endogenous and exogenous antigens.
This is the reason anti-histaminics and avoidance of triggering substances are but NOT the long term solutions!? For sure, they provide us the time to deal with the actual problem in effective manner.
what i used to do in cases of allergy is to help / let the patients find triggering substances and instead of advising them to completely avoid those substance i tell them to avoid those substances initially, followed by gradual exposure under observation, simultaneously with constitutional treatment.
It is my belief that the treatment of allergy can be said well efficient only if it allows the patient to live in harmony with nature it self (including triggering substances) at the end of the course of treatment.
What is yours?
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Let us deal with allergy in effective manner, together!
Thanks with Regards,
Dr. Karnav Thakkar (B.H.M.S.)
R.M.O. at Parul Institute of Homoeopathy & Research Hospital
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Website: https://the-ultimate-solution.business.site/
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