What Happens If You Ignore Allergy Symptoms Year After Year?

Ignoring your allergy symptoms doesn’t make them disappear – it just lets the problems build. Beyond the same frustrating symptoms on repeat, untreated allergies can lead to related health
conditions, missed days at work or school, and a lower quality of life overall. Here’s what really happens when allergies go untreated and why treating the cause matters.

Allergies Will Continue

First things first: if you’re not treating the cause of your allergies, they will come back each season. Using symptom relievers like antihistamines, nasal sprays, eye drops, inhalers, and creams can help you feel better temporarily, but they don’t get to the root of the disease. The only treatment that alters the allergic disease is immunotherapy. Through allergy drops or allergy shots, the body learns to tolerate the allergens that make you sick, where antihistamines just block symptoms for 12-24 hours.

Influx in Related Conditions

Not only do your allergies stay the same, but so do allergy-related conditions. There is a long list of conditions that can be brought on, or worsened, by allergies, including:

• Asthma
• Eczema
• Sinusitis
• Headaches
• Digestive issues
• EoE
• And more.

Allergies cause inflammation in the sinuses, airways, skin barrier, and even the digestive system, and this consistent inflammation can wreak havoc in so many ways.

Work and School Changes

With symptoms from allergic rhinitis, as well as the impact of related conditions, your attendance and productivity at work and school can really be impacted. Lack of sleep, consistent symptoms,
appointments with your provider, can all make showing up at your best difficult. This blog explains how absenteeism and presenteeism can ramp up in the workplace during allergy season.

Treating the Cause

There are long-term consequences to ignoring allergies, or simply masking the symptoms year after year. But there is another option – immunotherapy. Allergychoices recommends custom allergy drop treatment for patients with environmental and food allergies. Treatment is custom to each patient and contains tiny amounts of the allergens determined to be harmful through testing, exam, and history. The dose is enough to help build tolerance, but not too much to cause unnecessary symptoms. Over time, the body learns to tolerate allergens and not react when exposed. Related conditions are often improved, too. If you’re sick of struggling through your allergy seasons, find a provider near you that offers testing and treatment today.