Articles About Allergies

Alrededor de dos millones de personas sufren alergia a los alimentos en Estados Unidos. Un 8% de ellos son niños. Esto sucede porque el sistema inmunológico reacciona en forma extrema frente a un alimento inofensivo para el común de la gente debido a la producción de un anticuerpo llamado IgE (Inmunoglobulina E). Este puede desarrollarse … Read More

Food allergies, like other allergies, can emerge at any age. The best control against serious reactions to food is information on how to prevent and manage the food allergy reaction. This includes knowing how and when to administer epinephrine or adrenaline.

You can make simple and easy changes in your routine to help reduce your exposure to environmental allergens that trigger your allergy symptoms.

Dust is a disgusting stew of many particles including ash, fibers, fingernail filings, food crumbs, glass bits, oil, soot, paint chips, plant parts, pollen, animal and human skin cells, dander and hair, fungal spores, soil, stone particles, wood shavings, etc. Dust exists almost everywhere both inside and outside and is carried on air currents. Dust … Read More

Approximately one out of every hundred and fifty people has a peanut allergy. The allergy can range from mild to deadly. Peanuts aren’t nuts, they’re legumes, from the bean family, like peas and green beans. Some people (1 in 20) who have peanut allergy are also allergic to peas and green beans. Mild symptoms of … Read More

Our immune system is a network of organs and cells working together to defend us against disease. This system blocks “foreign” proteins, substances not meant to be in our bodies, from entering our body. When harmful proteins are detected, the immune system sends out soldiers or “antibodies” on “search and destroy” missions. These antibodies can … Read More

If you have seasonal pollen allergies, it’s time to take charge and be in control of your allergen or allergy trigger. In Texas, January through November are heavy pollen months of one variety or another. Tree Pollens abound January through June. Grass Pollen season overlaps from April to September. Weed Pollen season is July to … Read More

What are allergies and why are some adults and children affected by them when others aren’t? Allergy occurs when our immune system mistakenly fights harmless substances including pollens, mites, mold spores and animal dander (skin flakes), all of these particles totally, absolutely harmless. Our immune system is designed to fight viruses and bacteria that can … Read More

Most people understand that anaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction to some foods and also to insect venom yet few know that severe medication allergy or allergy to latex products can also trigger this response. Latex is a natural product from the rubber tree; some people develop allergies to products containing latex after repeated contact … Read More

Mucha gente asmática y alérgica es alérgica al polvo. Polvo es un guisado repugnante de muchas partículas incluyendo ceniza, fibras, limaduras de la uña, migajas de alimento, cristal, aceite, hollín, virutas de la pintura, piezas de la planta, polen, células de la piel del animal y del ser humano, caspa y pelo, las esporas fungicidas, … Read More