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Allergies
The allergic children are cured when you stop having contact with pollen. It is not always in our power to get him away, but we can protect it with some care.
• Ventilate the house at noon and keep windows closed at all other times: the plants remove more pollen early in the morning.
• No overwhelm you, seek not remain much time outdoors when it is windy. The pollen is very high these days. If you usually walks to school, let us try to transfer car.
• Travel by car with the windows closed.
• No toys or stuffed animals accumulate in their bedroom. It put the lowest number of furniture as possible and avoid curtains, carpets and decorations.
• Try to drink plenty of fluids, as the runny nose and dry throat cause you to lose enough water. Heavy drinking is also beneficial for bronchial cilia, tiny filaments that push the pollen (and foreign elements) of the lower respiratory tract.
• Wash your eyes with saline or salt water (10 g of salt per liter of water) cold or warm. You can also apply antihistamine eye drops (no cortisone) prescribed by the physician.
• If the small support them, provide glasses pollen (specialist retailers).
How to treat allergy
Increasing incidence
In the 80′s Dr. Neffen claimed that one in six people in the world suffering from some kind of allergic disease. In 1996, the president of the European Academy of Immunology, one of the discoverers of IgE (immunoglobulin E, present and increased in all allergic process), Dr. S. Johansson, said that one in three people in Europe suffering from an allergic disease. This information brought to our country show revenues of approximately 10,000,000 allergies in all its varieties.
This worldwide growth is most pronounced in countries with Western lifestyle. It would show that the increase in allergic diseases are more related to the quality of air breathed indoors with air pollution. In fact, in practice there is a greater incidence of allergic reactions triggered by household allergens, mites, fungi, etc., that other substances.
How to treat
In childhood and adolescence, antihistamines based treatments seem to be the answer you are looking for, especially when used in a preventive manner for a long period. In adolescence, when most recurrences occur, but this is due to low effect of the drugs but the higher number of desertions. That is why we must strengthen a lot of work with young people, to avoid complications of allergy, especially involving the respiratory system.
Until recently, the use of antihistamines was a problem: they produced sleep interfered with the study or sport. Currently, work is well with the new generation antihistamines, such as the fexofena-dina with one or two meals a day is enough to stop the major symptoms. As it has no side effects, dropouts are less frequent and protective effects can be achieved with long-term use.
