Although the first symptoms begin to manifest between January and March, the month in which the allergy attacks stronger is May, and its effects are extended until June, according to the allergist of Vithas Health Hospital of Granada, Dr. Julián López Caballero, who says that in recent weeks there has been an increase in the number of patients who go to the clinic, ask for an appointment, or go to an emergency room to see an allergist.
Symptoms begin with more frequent sneezing than usual, itchy eyes and dampness in the nose. The concentration of pollen can lead to the allergy to develop bronchial asthma, causing people who suffer from shortness of breath, cough a lot and feel beeps in the chest.
Before the first symptoms, it is advisable to go to the specialist, and, while it is advisable to avoid as far as possible the walks in the open air or in landscaped areas especially in the early morning and late afternoon.
In addition, the expert advises to go with the windows of the car closed and to wear sunglasses; Be careful when shaking clothes that have been lying outdoors indoors if there are allergic patients; Combating rhinitis and allergy rhinoconjunctivitis you will need an oral antihistamine with an inhaled corticosteroid; And if asthma symptoms appear they can be controlled with a bronchodilator inhaler associated with a corticoid at the bronchial level.
"Being allergic is a chronic disease, but if we modify the immune response to an allergenic treatment we alter the natural history of the disease," explains Dr. Lopez Caballero.
This means that, if we treat and vaccinate properly, the patient's symptoms will improve. Thus, after treatment symptoms will be minimal in spring if in autumn the patient has been vaccinated; And repeating the process for several years in a row will come a time when the patient will hardly notice discomfort in the time of allergies.
But the most common is that people with allergies begin to manifest from childhood, developing intolerance to foods such as milk or egg, atopic dermatitis, rhinitis, and conjunctivitis. Although it is also seeing more and more people of more advanced age who develop an allergic process.
On the other hand, explains that being allergic also has an important genetic component, so it is observed that if parents have a history it is very likely that children are allergic. However, he warns that what is inherited is the possibility of developing an allergy, but not the allergy itself.
Although, "it will depend on the genetic load, on the environment in which the patient lives, and on other factors that cause the immune system to be triggered at any given moment and allergies appear. Worked with two twin brothers in which one is tremendously allergic and the other has no allergy, although curiously when doing the tests comes out positive, but does not develop symptoms.
With regard to the increase in cases in recent years, he recalls that this is due to the excess of hygiene in modern society and constant exposure to particulate matter from diesel engines, especially in large cities; The use of broad spectrum antibiotics or being highly vaccinated against many diseases also promotes the development of allergy in the population.
"It is because of being overprotected, not having contact with contamination: the immune system can not be stopped.If there is no epidemic, there are no infections, there is no dirt to fight, the body is looking for other enemies: the peach, Mites, olive, etc., "he concludes.
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