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Hay fever: From Symptom to Diagnosis

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Typical symptoms of hayfever

The pollen reached by air in the nose, lungs and eyes. Therefore, the airway in hay fever sufferers particularly hard hit. Typical hay fever symptoms are:
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* Runny nose and sobbing.
* Nasal congestion (swollen mucous membranes due to)
* Sneeze
* Itching (more…)

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Timoteeallergie (Phleum pratense)

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

People with a rye grass pollen allergy or allergic reaction to certain proteins in the pollen particles. This hypersensitivity of the immune system can be easily treated with extracts of grass pollen. Because the cross-allergic effect of many grasses, is a timothy extract also an allergy to rye and other grasses.

Since a few years there is a imuuntherapie available in the form of tablets. These tablets are a preparation from pollen extract of timothy (Phleum pratense). If the tablet over a period of three years daily placed under the tongue (sublingual use), where the tablet dissolves and the release from allergens. In this variation of specific immunotherapy develops an immune resistance to the allergen, and reigns less sensitive to contact with pollen. (more…)

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Hay fever, what is that?

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Everyone knows it: Hay fever. As widespread as the word is so unclear it. Hay fever, the disease has neither hay nor fever to do. Doctors also use different words pollinose, seasonal allergic rhinitis or pollenrhinopathie example.

Hay fever, such as, asthma or neurodermatitis, a group of diseases that cause all the same in the body can be traced to. The cause is allergic to substances in the environment such as flower or grass pollen. These work as allergens and cause an immunological reaction. (more…)

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Hayfever Medicine: An Overview

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Treatment of allergies such as hay fever are different medications and drugs available:

* Antihistamines. Also called histamine receptor blockers. These are histamine fighters. The histamine is released from allergies, and leads to the typical hay fever symptoms. Antihistamines block the action of the body, and thus may suppress the symptoms. (more…)

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