Carried away by the increasingly insane climate, even allergies become complicated and unpredictable.
Allergies: the more the climate changes, the more my nose runs
Sandro Iannaccone
“Allergy patients have changed in recent years,” he says Gianenrico Senna, president of the Italian Society of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology (Siaaic) and head of the Verona Allergy Operative Unit: “The lengthening of the pollen season has induced a phenomenon of polysensitization, in which the allergic effects of different pollen add up and lead to allergies that last longer”. Thus, the treatments, in the long run, risk being poorly tolerated by patients and may therefore lose their effectiveness.
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What countermeasures to adopt, then? It is first of all essential to recognize the symptoms of allergy in time and learn to distinguish them from those of other disorders: “A suggestion – says the clinician – is to be careful of comorbidities: a cold is hardly accompanied by conjunctivitis, which instead is a of the manifestations of allergies. In the same way, allergic sneezing is usually more intense and frequent than cold sneezing. Again: the old adage that says that “rhinitis wet but not dirty” applies, that is, it is characterized by a transparent nasal discharge “.
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And never do-it-yourself. It is better to ask for the advice of an expert, who will be able to prescribe the most appropriate therapy: “In addition to traditional treatments with steroids and antihistamines – he concludes – today we also have innovative drugs for immunotherapy, which allow you to” switch off “the typical immune reactions allergies rather than just mitigating the symptoms “.
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