ALLERGY AND COMMON ALLERGY TRIGGERS
ALLERGY Allergy is your body's reaction to a normally harmless substance(s) called allergens. Yes, these substances are harmless to your body but your body has become hypersensitive to them. This means that when you come in contact with them, your body evokes serious immune responses to them so as to eliminate them. This developes over time as exposures are frequent and because of the severity of the immune response on these substances, your systems can be implicated. Allergic reactions can as well be hereditary. This means that it can be inherited and can run in families. In a normal allergy condition, you react by itching, swelling on the area of contact, runny nose, sneezing, peeling of skin and flaking COMMON ALLERGENS IN OUR ENVIRONMENT ARE: 1- POLLEN 2- DANDER 3- MOLD 4- DUST MITES 5- DRUGS 6- FOOD 5- INSECT STINGS 6- LATEX 7- HOUSEHOLD ITEMS AND COSMETICS LIKE SOAPS, DETERGENT, PERFUMES, BODY SPRAYS AND CREAMS. POLLEN Pollen is a powdery substance produced by plants,