Hay fever , or hay fever, is called a seasonal allergic disease that tends to occur during the flowering of plants whose pollen is carried by wind. Often the disease worsens in the warm period - in spring and summer. Distributed over fairly long distances by the wind, pollen settles on the mucous membranes of the human body. Healthy people like that
they may not feel contact, but prone to allergic manifestations - they will experience hay fever.
Symptoms of the disease are observed, first of all, in the form of a severe cold. Swelling of the mucous membrane in the nose, swelling near the eyes, lacrimation and frequent sneezing also occur. Even a single plant can cause hay fever. Symptoms can manifest themselves in varying degrees of severity, up to attacks of bronchial asthma (in 20% of cases).
There are more than one thousand plant varieties. But only about fifty of them can provoke spring hay fever. The most malicious allergen is pollen of ragweed, as well as quinoa, alder, dandelion, birch, poplar, and sunflower.
Despite the fact that outside the city there are much more plants than in them, it is precisely the inhabitants of megacities that become hostages of allergies.
Often it is the polluted air of large cities, and not flowering plants, that causes hay fever. Symptoms of the disease are manifested by the constant inhalation of car exhaust, dust, chemical compounds released by enterprises into the atmosphere. Such an explosive mixture causes irritation of the mucous membranes, as a result of which they become thinner and also become exposed to the pollen of plants.
Based on the patient's complaints, which coincide with the flowering period of representatives of the flora, an allergist can diagnose hay fever. Symptoms provide a basis for conducting a study of skin samples (during remission). This is carried out as follows - a microscopic dose of the allergen in the form of pollen is applied to a small scratch and a reaction to it is observed.
Hay fever in children is a special clinical case. Symptoms are manifested in the form of an increase in body temperature and redness of the skin. In addition to the signs of the disease inherent in an adult, a child may experience: headache, inflammation and swelling of the intestines and stomach. Therefore, when
in children during flowering plants runny nose, lacrimation, decreased appetite, irritability should not exclude the development of hay fever. The onset of the disease can contribute to dermatitis, diathesis, chronic
respiratory disease, food poisoning or allergies.
Pollinosis therapy should be carried out under the strict supervision of a doctor. Usually , antihistamines - syrups and tablets are prescribed to get rid of the disease. You should definitely exclude allergen products from the diet, wet the room as often as possible, rinse your throat, rinse your eyes and nose after each return from the street.
The lack of treatment for hay fever can lead to bronchial asthma.