| Summer is at the height. Everything is green and | | | | cases, signs of pollen disease can appear not only |
| blossoming. We should be glad to sun and warmth, | | | | during plants blossoming, but also in winter. This is |
| but, looking at our own offspring, who sneezes and | | | | connected with provoking factors' influence on |
| coughs, we think desperately: "It would be better if | | | | organism: smell of tobacco, paints, cold etc. And |
| spring would come later!" | | | | another fact, a baby, whose parent suffers from |
| What does spring bring? Everything starts blossoming | | | | allergy, runs 30% risk of allergic reactions' |
| with its coming. To be more exact, not blossoming, | | | | development. If both parents have allergy, the risk is |
| but filling the air with dust. Air pollen accumulates on | | | | increased up to 60%. This way allergy jumps from |
| pituitary membrane, conjunctiva and mucous | | | | generation to generation. |
| membrane, comes to bronchus, contact with skin and | | | | How to survive spring and summer |
| causes allergy symptoms. Such people immune | | | | Don't open windows and doors in dry and windy |
| system treats harmless substance (pollen) as an | | | | weather. |
| enemy by mistake and switches on protective | | | | Ventilate room only after rain. You can hang wet |
| mechanisms at once, which suppress the enemy. | | | | bed-sheets or gauze in several layers on open |
| Reddening, edema, fever - these are typical signs of | | | | windows and doors. |
| struggle, taking place between protective forces of | | | | Don't go out early in the morning. |
| immune system and alien substances. | | | | Take shower twice a day. When you come back |
| There're lots of names, but the essence is still the | | | | home, wash your hair for sure. |
| same. Pollen disease or hay fever, spring catarrh, | | | | Cleanse nose and eyes every day and gargle with |
| pollen allergy - these are names of the disease in | | | | salt solution - 1/3 tea-spoon of salt on a glass of |
| different times. When you face pollen disease for the | | | | warm boiled water. |
| first time, you can easily treat it as ARD by mistake | | | | Don't dry cloth outside after washing, as pollen |
| - these diseases start almost the same way: coryza, | | | | accumulates in them. Do wet cleaning every day. |
| stuffiness in nose, watering, fits of sneezing, | | | | Be careful with herbal treatment, avoid any |
| sometimes cough. But coryza under pollen disease | | | | substances that contain herbs, for example, |
| (nasal allergy) - is a continuous flow. A day and night | | | | shampoo. |
| of such nasal allergy, and more than 1 liter of liquid will | | | | Don't grow following room plants: geranium, begonia, |
| pour out your nose. Eyelids get inflamed, tears are | | | | primrose, roses, lilac, ivy. Nine of ten patients, |
| streaming down, purulent discharges appear. Quite | | | | suffering from pollen disease, have allergic reactions |
| often shortness of breath, crepitations in chest and | | | | on some food. Prescribe a diet for your baby! |
| cutaneous eruptions also appear. A distinguishing | | | | Calendar of allergenic plants' blossoming |
| feature of such allergy is its seasonality. All sings of | | | | March - snowdrop, alder-tree |
| this disease disappear, as soon as plants finish | | | | April - hazel, birch, poplar, elm, maple, willow |
| blossoming. | | | | May - oak, lilac, apple-tree, dandelion, conifers |
| Attention - diet! | | | | June - timothy-grass, fescue |
| If your child suffers from pollen disease, don't give | | | | July-August - wormwood, buckwheats, nettle, |
| him honey. If the reaction is caused by birch, alder, | | | | plantain, sorrel |
| apple-tree, don't give him apples, cherries, plums, | | | | P.S. During pollen disease exacerbation, sensibility to |
| nuts, carrot and potato. Don't use medical | | | | any negative influences increases, risk of allergic |
| preparations, based on birch buds and leaves, alder | | | | reaction on dust, animals' hair and medicines increases. |
| cones. Allergy on wormwood, geranium, dandelion, | | | | The earlier you visit a doctor, the higher will be your |
| sunflower won't allow to eat oranges, sunflower-seed | | | | chances to recover or stop the disease. |
| oil, halva. Even if your child eats apples and bananas | | | | Remedies against pollen disease |
| during year, avoid them in spring all the same. | | | | Kestine: Children's syrup with a comfortable dosage |
| Is this disease in-born? | | | | arrangement. Is used for seasonal or |
| From birth, your child may only have predisposition to | | | | all-the-year-round nasal allergy, nettle-rash, allergic |
| allergic reaction. On the first year of life, such babies | | | | dermatosis itch, skin manifestations of food, |
| usually have food allergy. Pollen one is usually formed | | | | medicine, contact allergy, nasal allergy under bronchial |
| not earlier than on 4th year of life. It can be seldom | | | | asthma treatment. |
| met in earlier age. If a baby suffers from allergy on | | | | Analergin: Tablets in capsules. Are used during |
| some food, his cheeks turn red, and his mother | | | | seasonal and chronic nasal allergy, allergic |
| starts bathing him in herbs - chamomile, bur-marigold. | | | | conjunctivitis, itch, chronic nettle-rash, giant urticaria, |
| This way, mother forms her baby's allergy on pollen | | | | allergic dermatosises, accompanied by itch and |
| too, not knowing it. So, when you notice the first | | | | eruptions. |
| sings of the disease, carry out allergy tests at once | | | | Claritin: Tablets for adults, syrup for children. Prevents |
| and start treatment. | | | | symptoms of allergy: sneezing, itch, nasal discharge, |
| Remember: allergy tests should be done only since | | | | watering, itch and eye reddening. |
| November till March. Tests, made in May, for | | | | Telfast: Tablets. Removes skin itch, skin |
| example, can provoke exacerbation. In this case, wait | | | | intumescences and reddening. |
| till the season of risk is over with the help of | | | | Erius: Tablets and syrup for children. Struggles with |
| preparations, relieving a baby's condition. In some | | | | sneezing, nose and eye itch successfully. |