Pollinosis: symptoms of disease in adults and children

Pollinosis, or hay fever, is called seasonal 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, first of all, 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 in varying degrees of severity, up to the attacks of bronchial asthma (in 20% of cases of the disease).

There are more than one thousand varieties of plants. But only about fifty of them can trigger a spring hay fever. The most malicious allergen is pollens ragweed, as well as swans, alder, dandelion, birch, poplar, sunflower.

Despite the fact that outside the city of plants there are much more than in them, hostages of allergy are the inhabitants of megacities. Often, it is the polluted air of large cities, and not flowering plants, which causes hay fever. Symptoms of the disease are manifested with the constant inhalation of automobile exhausts, dust, chemical compounds released 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 plants.

Based on complaints of the patient, which coincide with the flowering period of representatives of the flora, an allergist can diagnose pollinosis. Symptoms in this case provide a basis for conducting a study of skin tests (during remission). This is done this way - 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 clinical case. Symptoms are manifested in the form of increased body temperature and redness of the skin. In addition to the signs of disease inherent in an adult person, the child can have: headache, inflammation and swelling of the intestines and stomach. Therefore, when In children in the period of flowering plants runny nose, tearing, reducing appetite, irritability should not exclude the development of pollinosis. Disease, diathesis, chronic respiratory disease, food poisoning or allergy can contribute to the onset of the disease.

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

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