What Can I Do to Manage Multiple Allergies and Comorbidities?
Our last two blogs dug into allergy comorbidities and how allergies can impact autoimmune diseases. The inflammation and immune response that occurs with an allergic reaction can cause a host of issues in the body – exacerbating allergy-related conditions and some autoimmune diseases.
What can you do to feel better? There are two routes of action here: treat your symptoms individually, or treat the cause itself (stop allergic reactions) with allergy immunotherapy. You can treat multiple allergies and comorbidities by the symptoms, or you treat the cause.
Treating Each Symptom Individually
With all allergy comorbidities, taking antihistamines regularly can help lower the immune response and reduce some of the related symptoms. You may also look to specific solutions dependent on what coexisting conditions you experience. For example:
- Eczema: Antihistamine creams
- Asthma: Inhalers
- Headaches: Decongestants and pain relievers
- Sinusitis: Antibiotics and decongestants
Every time your symptoms arise, you’ll have to reach for your trusted symptom-reliever. They don’t treat the allergic reactions themself, but mask the symptoms you feel because of them.
Changing the Disease
The other option is to treat the disease at its source. Immunotherapy is the only way to treat the cause of allergies, and Allergychoices advocates for allergy drop treatment following The La Crosse Method™ Protocol.
Here’s how it works. A person with allergies breathes in an allergen and the body interprets it as harmful, then it responds with inflammation and symptoms like itching and sneezing. After successful treatment, the body no longer detects the allergens as harmful, so the reaction doesn’t occur.
Allergy drops contain small amounts of the allergens that you react to – identified through allergy testing, exam, and history. Over time, the amount of allergen is safely and slowly increased so that the body gets used to being exposed. With three to five years of treatment, the body learns to not respond, and therefore symptoms of allergy, and its coexisting conditions, are reduced. Here are some of the other benefits:
- Results of treatment are long-lasting
- The need for symptom relievers is often reduced
- Less doctor visit and hospital stays
If this option sounds good to you, find a clinician near you that offers treatment to get started with allergy testing and treatment.