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Your guide to seasonal allergies
Ah, December! The month when the temperatures finally dip below 100 degrees and many of us prepare for the season by rushing out to stores, cash and credit cards in hand, looking for those perfect items for the tree.
Unfortunately, the season is allergy season, the items are antihistamines and decongestants, and the tree is the mountain cedar — a (sadly) drought-resistant evergreen that produces the pollen that makes many of us miserable from mid-month to late February.
The first time a particular type of pollen travels across your nasal membrane or through your lungs, your body kicks into gear and develops allergic antibodies to that pollen trigger, says Dr. Jackee Kayser, pediatric allergist at 'Specially for Children and Dell Children's Medical Center. When your body encounters the pollen trigger again, your immune system is waiting with the pre-formed antibodies. Histamine and other mediators head into a battle of overreaction, causing the classic allergic and even asthmatic symptoms.
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Allergy Symptoms Worse at Start of Season Letty de Weger, MD, and colleagues from Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands compared daily pollen counts with daily reported symptom severity from patients aged 18 to 60 years who had a positive result on a skin test for grass pollen ... |
Your guide to seasonal allergies
That's why she recommends that patients consult an allergist. Hypersensitivity skin testing is one way to find out which environmental triggers or pollens, if any, are the cause of allergic symptoms. Kayser usually starts with the skin prick device, ...
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Use of Acetazolamide in Sulfonamide-Allergic Patients With Neurologic ... Conclusions These 3 cases confirm that the carbonic anhydrase inhibitor acetazolamide can be given to patients with a history of allergic skin rash with antibiotic sulfonamide. Nonantibiotic sulfonamides are used for treatment of diseases such as type ... |
Could my blood pressure pills be making me itch?
Itching can be a symptom of a number of skin diseases, such as scabies (an infestation with a mite), urticaria (hives, often an allergy) or eczema. If there is no obvious skin complaint, itching could be a sign of an adverse reaction to medication or a ...
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