What is an allergy?

Filed under: Allergy - 09 Jun 2010
An allergy refers to an exaggerated reaction by our immune system in response to bodily contact with certain foreign substances. It is exaggerated because these foreign substances are usually seen by the body as harmless and no response occurs in non- allergic people. Allergic people's bodies recognize the foreign substance ...

Allergy Asthma Convulsions | Treating Asthma

Filed under: Asthma - 29 May 2010
Allergy and asthma are often related to one another. A common misconception about allergy is that it only manifests on the skin with rashes and itchiness. What many of us do not know, that beside the usual lip bulging, is that asthma can also be an allergic reaction. There are many ...

Drugs for the Suppression of Pain (Analgesics)

Filed under: Convulsions - 28 May 2008
Pain is a designation for a spectrum sensations of highly divergent charact and intensity ranging from unpleasa to intolerable. Pain stimuli are detecte by physiological receptors (sensor nociceptors) least differentiated mo phologically, viz., free nerve ending. The body of the bipolar afferent first-order neuron lies in a dorsal root ganglio Nociceptive ...

What are Hysterical Convulsions?

Filed under: Convulsions - 19 May 2008
These convulsions are of a psychogenic origin, also called psychogenic seizures or psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. These should be differentiated from true epileptic convulsions; hence the value of an eyewitness for the precise diagnosis of epilepsy. Simple information, that the patient had an attack of convulsions, is not enough to attach ...

Know About Asthma Food Allergy

Filed under: Allergy, Asthma - 05 May 2008
There are findings that many asthmatics don't consider food an asthma trigger, particularly in adults. Most of the studies connecting food and asthma are done with children, who it is understood may be food allergic. So recently, food allergy is yet another factor that asthma patients should not miss from their ...

Do You Have Asthma?

Filed under: Asthma - 05 May 2008
The number of newly diagnosed asthma cases in the United States has risen dramatically over the past ten to fifteen years. Part of the reason may be due to the availability of better medical care and early diagnostic methods used by many doctors today. More people may be willing to ...

How To Diagnose Allergy?

Filed under: Allergy - 10 Feb 2008
Before a diagnosis of allergic disease can be confirmed, the other possible causes of the presenting symptoms should be carefully considered. Vasomotor rhinitis, for example, is one of many maladies that shares symptoms with allergic rhinitis, underscoring the need for professional differential diagnosis. Once a diagnosis of asthma, rhinitis, anaphylaxis, ...

Allergy Pathophysiology

Filed under: Allergy - 10 Feb 2008
The pathophysiology of allergic responses can be divided into two phases. The first is an acute response that occurs immediately after exposure to an allergen. This phase can either subside or progress into a "late phase reaction" which can substantially prolong the symptoms of a response, and result in tissue ...

Allergy Causes

Filed under: Allergy - 10 Feb 2008
Risk factors for allergy can be placed in two general categories, namely host and environmental factors. Host factors include heredity, sex, race and age, with heredity being by far the most important. There are recent increases in the incidence of allergic disorders, however, that cannot be explained by genetic factors ...

Allergy Signs and symptoms

Filed under: Allergy - 10 Feb 2008
Many allergens are airborne particles, such as dust or pollen. In these cases, symptoms arise in areas in contact with air, such as eyes, nose and lungs. For instance, allergic rhinitis, also known as hay fever, causes irritation of the nose, sneezing, and itching and redness of the eyes. Inhaled ...
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