What is an allergen ?
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1. The substances that trigger allergy are called allergen.
2. Examples include pollens, dust mite, molds, danders, and certain foods.
3. People prone to allergies are said to be allergic or atopic.
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The treatment for a food allergy attack begins with cooling the skin down and preventing the itching by applying cooling lotion containing cortisone. The doctors also suggest antihistamine to calm your skin and prevent the itchiness. Sedative are offered to calm down the nerves so that the food allergy attack does not become severe. Exposure therapy where you are tested with little of the allergic food at regular periods so that you can become used to it is often carried out by the doctors. Other medicines for helping you to breathe and bringing down the swelling in your internal organs are prescribed by the doctors when required. Treating children is difficult because the best way to avoid a food allergy attack is to avoid the food which cannot always be done for kids thus the parents need to be careful about what the kid is having.
Risks Factors for Food Allergy
There are many risk factors for food allergy. The symptoms of food allergy is often ignored if mild and self-treated. This can lead to risking the patient’s life. Secondly food allergy can develop at any point of time in your life thus diagnosing what is causing him uneasiness and the illness in you often takes time. Sometime allergy attacks which have gone bad in your past days make you phobic about that item and you start falling sick or get a panic attack even at the glimpse of it. The allergy medicines take time to cure you and thus you might prevent yourself from taking in something which in another way would be healthy for you. For example if a person has wheat allergy then he or she has prevent themselves from eating a lot of food items and therefore can lose in the nutrition to a level. Extreme cases of food allergy attack can cause serious breathing troubles and even lead to a heart attack.
Complications in Food Allergy
The complications of food allergy need to be kept in mind always and the patient has to be very careful about his food habit. He or she might take in something that contains a kind of food to which he or she is allergic. It is difficult to know which dish contains the ingredients that can trigger a food allergy attack, because even the smallest amount of that ingredient could make him or her sick. He or she has to avoid social gatherings and cannot eat outside mostly if he or she is allergic to more than one kind of food item which is the usual case. The food allergy attacks also create a phobia which is harmful for the patient’s social life. One can turn allergic to any food product and any point in his or her life thus being always cautious is difficult.
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Prevention of Food Allergy
Knowing what you are allergic to is most important in case of food allergy. You can prevent yourself from getting triggered by the substance that you are allergic to if you stop taking any kind of dish that might contain the allergic substance. You must get treated for your allergy and try to get better so that it does not pass on to your children. Never take any pills for reducing the allergy without the doctor’s prescription as the medicine might have server side effects or have a reverse reaction on you.
Always follow the ingredients mentioned behind a food packet before you buy it to be aware of the substances that you are about to take in.
Prognosis/Outlook for Food Allergy
If your food allergy is not hereditary it is usually treatable and the prognosis is good. You can get well and be back on your normal life. If you are working in a field where you have to deal with the substance that you are allergic to, your work might get disturbed in the beginning but sometimes exposure or sometimes over a period of time the allergic nature in