Pollinosis: symptoms of disease in adults and children

Pollinosis, or hay fever, is calledseasonal disease of an allergic nature, which has the property to manifest itself during the flowering of plants, the pollen of which is carried by the wind. Often, the illness worsens in a warm period - in spring and summer. Propagated for quite a long distance by the wind, the pollen settles on the mucous membranes of the human body. Healthy people like this

contact may not feel, but inclined to allergic manifestations - will experience a hay fever.

Symptoms of the disease can be traced, firstlyturn, in the form of a strong cold. Also there is swelling of the mucosa in the nose, swelling near the eyes, lacrimation and frequent sneezing. Even one plant can cause hay fever. Symptoms can manifest themselves in varying degrees of severity, up to attacks of bronchial asthma (in 20% of cases of the disease).

There are not one thousand varieties of plants. But only about fifty of them can trigger a spring hay fever. The most malicious allergen is pollen ragweed, as well as swans, alders, dandelions, birch, poplar, sunflower.

Despite the fact that outside the city of plants there are much more than in them, the inhabitants of megacities become hostages of the allergy.

It is often the polluted air of largecities, and not flowering plants, causes hay fever. Symptoms of the disease are manifested with the constant inhalation of automobile exhausts, dust, chemical compounds emitted by the enterprises into the atmosphere. Such a rattling mixture causes irritation of the mucous membranes, as a result of which they become thinner and become susceptible also to the action of pollen of the plants.

Based on the patient's complaints, whichcoincide with the period of flowering representatives of the flora, an allergist doctor can diagnose pollinosis. Symptoms in this case provide a basis for conducting a study of skin tests (during remission). This is done so - a microscopic dose of an allergen in the form of pollen is applied to a small scratch and there is a reaction to it.

Pollinosis in children is a special clinicalthe case. Symptoms are manifested in the form of increased body temperature and redness of the skin. In addition to the signs of the disease inherent in an adult person, the child can have: headache, inflammation and swelling of the intestines and stomach. Therefore, if

in children during the flowering of plants, a cold,lachrymation, decreased appetite, irritability should not exclude the development of pollinosis. Dermatitis, diathesis, chronic respiratory disease, food poisoning or allergies can contribute to the onset of the disease.

Therapy of pollinosis should be carried out under sensitiveby the doctor's supervision. Usually, to get rid of the disease, antihistamine medicines are prescribed - syrups and tablets. Undoubtedly, it is necessary to exclude food-allergens from the diet, conduct wet cleaning in the room as often as possible, rinse your throat, flush your eyes and nose after every return from the street.

The absence of treatment of pollinosis can lead to the occurrence of bronchial asthma.

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