Spring and summer – the heaviest time when children have an allergy. Than to facilitate a life of sneezing children?
Often we hear: “Earlier my daughter ran on fields and meadows, picked flowers, walked in wood, with pleasure inhaling a smell of spring, is proud carried wreaths from dandelions …
The trouble has come somehow suddenly, in one day: the child has woken up with a stuffy nose, with hoarse cough, with the swelled up red eyes. What happens? – The Allergy?”…
It appears, the birch has blossomed… Also has woken up an allergy. Now all pleasures of summer for my three-year daughter – sufferings, and beautiful flowers and grasses – dangerous enemies.
What is it?
The allergy, as a rule arises at flowering of some plants is an immune reaction, a hypersensibility to fibers of pollen of some plants. It is necessary to someone to smell pollen as the nose starts to be scratched, eyes swell up …
Rescues a strong rain which washes off pollen. And here from a small rain can become worse only – rain drops break grains of pollen and do their even more sated, and the raised humidity at a slight rain increases permeability of pollen in mucous membranes. Worst of all to the people suffering from an allergy, in dry windy weather when pollen flies everywhere.
As a rule, the allergy appears at children after 3 years. At the majority it disappears later.
Who suffers from an allergy more often?
- - Children, whose parents suffered or suffer an allergy.
- - Children, sisters and which brothers suffer from an allergy.
- - If mum and the daddy are subject to an allergy, such factors as difficult pregnancy and problems at the time of delivery, can increase probability of development of an allergy at the kid.
- - If your kid in risk group it is very important as it is possible to feed longer with its chest milk, and at a lack of milk at mum to finish feeding only hypoallergenic mixes, instead of usual.
How the allergy is shown?
The most widespread reactions is:
- - A cold and an itch in a nose,
- - Are scratched, redden and слезятся eyes,
- - There is a desire to scratch a throat and ears,
- - Swell up eyelids,
- - Cough sometimes begins.
At the heavy form of a pollen intoxication of the kid can disturb headaches, infringement of a dream, a chair, a belly-ache and the general feeling sick.
How to treat an allergy?
The allergist can appoint necessary treatment only, having studied all your family «allergic stories» and having looked the child. The doctor can choose for your kid time cover – drops in a nose and in eyes, other preparations. And can appoint tests to allergens (in the winter during the quiet not sharp period) and system treatment.
IMPORTANT: before a campaign to the allergist do not give to the child of medicines, the doctor should see allergy displays in all beauty correctly to estimate disease.
Than to help the child?
- - When go in the car, do not open a window.
- - Veil windows the gauze combined twice at home and constantly moisten with its water.
- - After walk along the street wash out a nose and eyes of the child salty water or special solutions.
- - Withdraw the child from a new-mown grass.
- - For the period of flowering if there is such possibility, leave in other place, there, where flowering or there where it has already ended yet has not begun.
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Hi, good post. I have been wondering about this issue,so thanks for posting.