For millions of Canadians, trees in bud and lawns turning green is one of those good/bad news things. The long, cold slog and all the sniffling and sneezing brought on by a never-ending string of colds going through the office or a kid's school is past - but is being replaced by all that miserable sniffling and sneezing triggered by trees and grasses coaxed back to life bye ever-milder weather.
More than one in six Canadians suffer from hay fever, or seasonal allergic rhinitis. Depending on what a person is allergic to, allergy season can start in the early spring and last right through the first killing frost of Autumn. In some parts of the county, you can suffer from March to November.
Why do I start sneezing as soon as the weather warms up?
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Blame your parents and your immune system. If both your parents suffered from allergies, there's a 66% chance you will, too. If one parent only had allergies, then your risk drops - only to 60 percent.
Your immune system identifies and reacts to different allergens, such as pollen that is blown around by the wind. When an allergen enters the body of someone who is predisposed to allergies, it triggers an immune reaction and the production of allergen-specific antibodies. These antibodies migrate to mast cells lining the nose, eyes and lungs.
The next time a pollen particle drifts into the nose, mast cells release a slew of chemicals (histamines) that irritate and inflame the moist membranes lining the nose and produce the classic symptoms of an allergic reaction - scratchy throat, sneezing, itching and watery eyes.
Basically, your body is objecting to the activity of trees (early to mid-spring), grasses (late spring and early summer), and ragweed (late summer until the first frost).
Or you might be sensitive to spores, which are the reproductive particles or seeds of fungi or molds. Spores can cause even more problems than pollen in some people, because they are smaller and can get deep into the lungs and possibly trigger asthma.
In some cases, people who are allergic to birch and alder pollen can develop oral allergy syndrome. You may have this if you have noticed allergy symptoms after you've eaten an apple, plum, nuts, celery, or carrots.
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This cross-reactivity is believed to be due to the antigen (allergy causing protein) structure pf the pollen grains and the carbohydrates protein covering foods. Cooking or peeling the skin will usually help. That's why some people have trouble eating an apple but have no trouble eating apple pie.
How Does NIS Approach Allergies?
Allergies essentially, are a symptom of intolerance of the body either internally or externally. Internally would relate to what has been ingested, and externally relates to airborne antigens that are either inhaled or come in contact with the skin and eyes. The cause of allergies relate to the inability of the immune system to counter antigen disruption by responding with a normal antibody response. Today it is common for these disruptions to be given a label that the public can relate to. Common examples will be hay fever, gluten intolerance, asthma, and in a general sense eczema and dermatitis to name a few.
MOUTH:
- Looking at the function of cranial nerve 7 and 12
- Any pathology present in the mouth, e.g. viral, bacterial, fungal
- Explain the relevance of spending more time to chew our food
STOMACH:
- Nerve supply to the stomach
- All enteric functions and the control of emotional anxiety and its effect on the stomach.
- The neurological control of of the valves of digestion; cardiac, pyloric, ileocecal, and houstonian valves
- This function allows appropriate time sequencing of the digestive processes that are essential to completing the digestive process. Reflux, constipation and irritable bowel syndrome are synonomous with gut dysfunction
- Any pathology that might be present in the stomach
DUODENUM AND SMALL INTESTINE:
- Function of the liver, gallbladder, duodenum and iluem
- Any pathology affecting any of the glands mentioned
- The nerve supply relating to these glands
- The various emotional triggers that can influence and inhibit the function of these glands
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