Seasonal allergies
In all industrialized countries, food allergies are increasing. The new generations are more susceptible and sensitive, or are we facing a real change in environmental conditions that are becoming increasingly hostile to humans? The answers of science are still unclear, but we know that there are factors “modern” that seem to contribute more to the growth of other allergies in the population, especially those known as “seasonal”, which explode in the spring.
Seasonal allergies
Since allergies can greatly affect the quality of life and traditional medicine is not always able to propose solutions, we will consider the following possible causes and some natural therapeutic remedies.
Because it triggers allergies
Allergy is defined as “an extremely violent reaction and exaggerated, and completely inappropriate, that the body has in relation to certain specific substances, which for most of the others are completely harmless.”
Our organization has an active defense system, immune system combate the task of protecting our body from the entrance and by the aggression of external agents (antigens), which could pose a threat to health. The immune system for help, produces antibodies capable of recognizing foreign substances, they bind to and neutralize them.
The reaction between antigen and antibody was therefore intended to defend the body in a positive way. But sometimes the immune system goes into action even when the business would not be required, and it can happen that a substance is completely harmless mistaken for a harmful antigen. The false signal triggers a reaction with the conjugated antigen recognition that in this case is called the “allergic reaction”.
Pollen allergies
In the spring the wind-borne pollen in the air flying around the countryside and cities. But because they can disturb so much?
People can sensitize the pollen of certain plants producing specific antibodies against their pollen, the “Ig immunoglobulin E”. These, after being produced, to be fixed on the outer surface of certain specific cells, called “mast cells”, located in large quantities in many body structures such as skin, eyes, nose and bronchi. When these people come into contact later with that type of pollen, the event triggered the allergic reaction in their body. The Ig immunoglobulin E specific, recognized the pollen allergen, will bind to mast cells, triggering a signal that causes the release of the chemicals contained in these cells. The release of histamine, the largest of these chemicals is the basis of most of the classic allergy symptoms like itching, redness, and burning sensation of heat.
Are tiny particles, not visible, which are released into the air by plants and transported by the wind. The wild grasses are plants that release pollen, allergy-inducing more frequently. Grasses such as wheat and rye, rarely cause respiratory allergies. Instead the trees as the olive tree, beech, alder, birch, hazel tree and the cypress are able to release pollen allergens.