Can an Allergy Be Cured? Understanding Allergy Symptoms and Treatment

An allergy is a hypersensitive reaction to a certain substance which causes various disturbance in parts of our body such as head (fever, headache, migraine), airway (coughing, sneezing, shortness of breath/asthma to extreme case of anaphylactic shock), and digesting systems. The most common symptom in allergic reaction is rash and itchy skin. Any allergy whether it is milk, gluten, dog, cat, or even alcohol allergy, symptoms are a combination of the symptoms above.

These symptoms occurred because our body released certain chemical substances called histamine. Histamine is actually a defense mechanism, designed to protect our body from potentially dangerous chemical substance (in most cases, foods). Its excessive release is the main problem because it has direct negative affects to our mucous glands.

If the allergic reaction occurred, we usually take the allergic pills to 'cure' it. The pills are actually an antihistamine, made to reduce histamine release and/or negate histamine effects on our body. Knowing the nature of our body, anti histamines will lose their effect after continual usages. Over the counter antihistamine is also not recommended as allergy medicine for kids.

Nevertheless, no matter how many pills you took, you will never 'cure' your allergies if you do not understand your allergy to begin with. Starting point to cure allergy is to understand its nature. You see allergy is closely related to individual immune system. These immune systems divided to two main forms, complex cellular and humoral element. Each of these interacts directly or indirectly with various molecule structures (antigen) which our body considers as aliens.

To find exactly what made us allergic, we need bio-marker examination to cellular immune system (consisted of lymphocytes, phagocytes, T-cells, neutrophil, etc) and our humoral element (immunoglobin, antibody systems, etc). After we know which cells have caused the allergy, our physician can help us to get rid of it without drugs dependency.

Asides from looking its main cause, we also need the right meal controls to avoid immune systems' disturbance. Generally, these are the things we could do to start to cure our allergies:

• If allergic reaction appeared, drink water as much as you can to dilute excessive mucus inside your body.


• Avoid foods based from milk, wheat, eggs, chocolates, nuts, seafood, and citrus including oranges. Getting food allergy recipes are also good ideas to reduce allergy reaction.


• Avoid deep fried foods or fatty foods because fat reduce our digestive systems capability to digest foods. This half digested foods could be deformed to 'poisons' which will provokes allergic reaction.


• Avoid high carbohydrate consumption because carbohydrates will force our cells, especially its mitochondria (cell metabolism' core), to work heavier. This could cause antibodies and immune cells deteriorating, reduce their effectiveness.