An
allergy is a basic hypersensitiveness. Some individuals
respond in an exaggerated manner to certain substances,
which do not produce any reaction in other people. For
example if a group of people are sitting in a room with
dust near by, only those who are sensitive to dust will
start sneezing vigorously and have difficulty in breathing.
This is because of hypersensitivity to dust as compared
to others who react normally. An inherent weakness, sometimes
hereditary, is why some people are hypersensitive and
others are not. A person may also be hypersensitive after
his resistance goes down, e.g. at the end of an acute
attack of some infection.
CAUSE
It is difficult to pin point a single cause. Common causative
substances may vary from simple substance like dust
to mental tension. It seems that virtually anything
in one's environment can lead to allergy. The various
methods by which these causing substances enter the
body and cause allergies are: inhalation, ingestion,
direct contact, bite, physical agents (like sun rays,
dry or moist cold air) and emotional disturbance.
MANIFESTATION
Allergies manifest themselves on various planes. On Skin,
allergies manifest themselves as urticaria, eczema
and allergic dermatitis, on Respiratory track, as allergic
rhinitis (sneezing/cold), bronchitis (cough) and allergic
asthma. On Gastro-intestinal track as wheat allergy,
diarrhea and vomiting, on Eyes as irritation, redness
and Lachrymation (watering of eyes).
HOMOEOPATHIC APPROACH
Some systems of medicine advocate Anti-histamines to
cure the all forms of allergies. Homoeopathy believes
that such drugs merely suppress or palliate the allergy
and rarely cure it.
Homoeopathy is a science that does not depend only on
the diagnosis of the diseases. For most of the other
therapeutic sciences treatment depends only on diagnosis.
In Homeopathy equal importance is given to the patient
as well as his suffering. This means when other sciences
aim at treating Disease in Man, Homoeopathic science
at the very inception, has been devised to treat the
Man in disease. In simple terms Homeopathy aims to treat
the inner man that is his immune system thereby treating
the root cause of his disease which is a weak immune
system. The system of homoeopathy works on the principle
of taking every patient as a different entity with different
medicine based on the symptoms therefore, a doctor should
be consulted before taking medicines.
ALLERGIC RHINITIS
There is irritation
of the nose, sneezing, running and blocking of the nose
and in some
cases, watering of the eyes and Sinus headaches. Attacks
come in spasms and may last for a few minutes or for
a few hours. In some cases the sneezing may be seasonal
and occur only at a certain time of the year.
URTICARIA
This is a kind of skin allergy,
which comes up in the form of small-circumscribed areas.
These
have
a pink border and may be pale in the center. Also associated
with this may be certain amount of swelling. There may
be intense burning sensation and the patient may throw
off his clothes or sit under the fan or have a cold water
shower.
So
intense is the itching at times that it drives the patient
to despair. The itching last for two minutes or few days.
A case of Urticaria
with Allergic rhinitis
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