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are you stop crying from a cold or is it allergies
just ahead on being well doctor bernie branch carol friend sarah bush league in
health system
will be here to talk about allergies and the best way to deal with the side
effects that this sometimes has detailed med
that's coming up so don't go away
well today we've got doctor bernie red charity talk to us about allergies
outlets for star trek what actually is an allergy what's happening in your body
when u when you're allergic to something share
analogy is
i'd is substance
usually it's a heartless substance
that your body just has meant alive normal reaction to hypersensitivity
reaction
are likely to if in your
you're in your house and say you see an insect their mosquito or something like
that
you could let it be it's gonna be harmless won't do anything
but in someone who's very allergic to things
has hypersensitivity reaction
instead of just whining that mosquito relating that flyby
they take a shotgun
and they'd kill that mosquito robotic
but in doing that to causing more damage more harm to the house okay so i know
you get this question a lot
you know do i have a call to i have an infection do i have allergies how do you
know the difference between those
they are symptoms between colds and allergies can be very very similar
a sore throat
it she highs
runny nose
uh... sometimes people high uh...
don't read as well
maybe they think ally get davies hides in these rashes
on one of the things that i was that
for instance if you have a fever usually you don't have a fever with allergies
uh... something
also that's important is
what elicited
that uh... reaction
if you know that you were around someone sick
or
that com
you know you ate a certain food
and that cause you to you
have been and h_e_ throat or if it's a time of year
uh... that causes you to have the issue swelled or
uh... scratchy ice with the most likely scenario g verses
you know i i have uh... just out of the blue i was around someone sick
on my mean system was down
and i have a fever
on that most likely as could be a cold and viral infection
do you have patience a third
i need to have uh... and then about it for what i have sheer and all the time
they come in
and they say have
sinusitis i have strep throat
uh... i have uh...
bacterial conjunctivitis infection in the eyes
how can you tell the difference sometimes
interestingly enough sometimes
people need to realize allergies can leak com you can be more com predisposed
to
abacha infection or viral infection
so sometimes when a person comes in with allergy symptoms
it can cross over into a bacterial infection of our own faction
and then sir property of medicine at that time
otherwise when it comes to allergies
and viral infection she just need to let
let it play out and you need to do what we call supportive care
plenty of hydration
tylenol or ibuprofen is needed movement
so uh... you've talked a little bit about
that taking some over-the-counter medications before the sentencing really
bad is actually really helpful can explain assured us to do i think
sometimes people think that one if i get allergy symptoms
uh... i've skipped a pop-up helen everything will be better we do know
that the over karen allergy medications
uh... already deemed city raising
that those region a require tunes allegra search engines like that uh...
if you take those those working really well in preventing the symptoms ok their
over the counter
announced the intermediate
antihistamines
so you're blocking histamine reaction
it's the histamine in your body in those immune cells
that when the ex post when our jim
uh... that they really set histamine
that causes all those symptoms the each she missed the swelling
the redness
uh... the secretions so by taking it beforehand
humana prevent those cells from leasing histamine
where if you take it when you have the symptoms then you're gonna have the
symptoms here just preventing future
com at that time from from heat from the getting worse sophie you knowing about
ac
you know maybe early spring when other pollack comes at me and you know that
time years coming take it what l
week or so before how i would say at least at ten to fourteen days before
uh... and the reason is is that you want a bill that those levels in your system
and sometimes i know piano
it we're not always the best of taking something every day
and so getting those levels built up in the system if you know that
in the spring time
uh... or that it's uh... in the fall
uh... or maybe it's the path what the whole here even the summer
some people have indoor some people are part of allergies
sold realizing that if i can prevent these things
and skinny much easier than when i when i have the symptoms are there any
adverse effects side effects from taking too much of an over-the-counter allergy
medication that we should be aware of church even though most of these
medications are marketed as
none sedating into hit pista means
uh... they're sometimes they can be very sedating somewhere than others
uh... dessert etc uh... is usually a litte more sedating than his nato upset
accommodations
ticket at night then
uh... so that you can sleep we all know that if we take some benadryl sometimes
uh... that can be very sad a_d_m_
and some people actually use that to sleep so tylenol p m at actually has
acetaminophen which is tylenol
and benadryl deaf and hard to mean uh... as asleep agent
well let's talk about what are some of the most common things that people are
allergic to well this simple common things
um... first while we think about is that we think of foods
and that's very important out food allergies 'cause those can be deadly
i myself when i was growing up suffered from peanut allergies
and it was interesting because since i was uh... young skin tested knows which
peanuts
we never had peanuts in the house
and i went to the university of illinois
uh... and when i was a freshman i went to a chinese restaurant that had peanut
butter
uh... in the end well and analyst fighting peanuts of sell out to the bite
of that enroll
and my throat started closing up and started wheezing
and and being a smart college freshman got on my scooter if it went to the
clinic
antics and said i'm having a bad allergic reaction in they gave me
epinephrine
and give me some antihistamines and and obviously i did well with that
but as you know some people can die from heating
uh... foods are getting stung by an insect to things like that
but uh... twenty percent of americans
uh... suffer from
for many types of allergies most common was a pollen
animal hair
uh... dust mites insect bites mold
uh...
latex
medicines perfumes and another one is cockroaches
so there's no if yes never heard of it out the cheetah dot correct out and
that's why i say uh... you know sometimes
uh... home centre
have a higher cockroach burden
com sometimes it's the droppings that the cockroaches leave behind the people
are very allergic cat
so it seems to me you know that we had a peanut allergy i can remember growing up
in and thinking in school there was one kid that was allergic to milk
now it seems like a lot of cancer and rejected severe allergic reactions to
peanut so why do you think we have more food allergies today that we did make me
twenty three years shira
to be honest with you there isn't no one really knows
there there's some theories out there
in the theory
uh... goes that
maybe we've become our society has become
to hygienic
to clean
when we were younger or when uh... society was more world or especially
uh... why do we see read self
kids with yahoo who grew up in the city
i have a higher rates of asthma allergies and bridges that uh... kids
that grew up in the farm
can sell it carry those that
uh... we want to as infants and young children were not exposed too are a lot
of the common allergies that are out there and and because of that
uh... are immune system
winning encounters uh... are unique allergy inertia irritant
or something that we should be harmless and says
well what is this
maybe this is something bad
maybe this is heidi parasite maybe this is something up a bacteria virus
so we need to mount
heyn immune response to the substance and get out of our system have been
immune allergic reaction
can you develop well i actually had no yes yes question even develop allergies
later in life correct as i didn't
used to have seasonal allergies and now they've no white why don't we develop
them later in life
any any comes back to
anything we can develop analogy to
uh... oftentimes and this is why we need to be careful
without cosmetics
is if you go apply something to the skin
what happens is in our immune system
cells will uh...
look at that substance and say is this foreign
is this harmful isis a harmless
and if it decides it's something is harmful then it'll develop in com on
memory
towards that substance so maybe the first time you don't react
maybe the second time you don't react
but that their time
your body will say hey this is an invader this is a bad substances in our
and how urgent
irritant uh... and then in a way tactic
and act like it's a uh...
uh... something that does not need to be there
and we could have
rashes hides
swelling
uh... wheezing
uh... diarrhea
things like that
do you find that can people outgrow allergies or if you like for you you are
allergic to cats as a kid i'm assuming you're still alert attn
can you outgrow some of those allergy you actually can how gross some of those
allergens
uh... answer you know some people can
how cruel princess milk allergies
uh... what as you get colder uh... later in life
you wonder teenager
but it's not uncommon also not to pro-growth those allergies
and that actually it's it has to do with uh... desensitization
that sometimes the more you exposed to something
uh... your sensitization can go down
however the opposite is also holds true the more you exposed to something
here sensitization can go out
that's how allergy shots work perhaps saudi shots work on the premise that
can we
i'm slowly desensitize your immune system to this substance will give you a
small
portion of it
that in a shot
and then eventually over time would you be larger larger portions
um... of that compound
of that allergen
to hopes that eventually a body will just
get used to and tolerate it
tell parents who bring maybe they're infants anything culture my child has a
has an allergy to this what are some of the steps that um... positions go
through to help determine what children may be allergic to what one of the best
things you can do
in really preventing our geez
is breast feeding a child uh... because your ip
giving that uh... that infant
out your own helping them with you on anybody's tony munity and that way
if uh... if they come across something there that they will have their own
advisor in their own immunity
i'm from from uh... and uh... mother as well
uh... so breastfeeding is a good one
uh... and nothing is watching out if if
for instance
knowing your medical history
height we do know that allergies has a
there's a larger medical content to it
so if you know
if you'll have a child and you know you were disturbed substances
really make sure
maybe not meant for sure you would don't expose that that baby that had been to
those substances are and that when you do introduce it
uh... mu very careful when you do in a small amounts
uh... and you make sure that uh... i mean if you have a severe allergic
reaction to something
and i would daphne probably getting your children
doesn't mean that in the alleged to it
but just be aware the first time that's introduced into their diet
in children can uh...
king may be an allergic reaction be mistaken for something alves correct i
think we i see this all the time the doctor's office
when i ask uh... or should i should say one minor sas
are you hit any medications
and they say oh i can't take a retro mice and i can take
uh... this certain type of antibiotic i can't take penicillin zai can take
and really a lot of people are getting allergies and side-effects mixed up ok
so for instance if you take care
so say you take amoxicillin and patience is i can't take that because my stomach
gets upset what's actually more
of a side effect right
what they say oh i get diarrhea
you know or um...
something like that uh... i get a headache
that's not really an allergy that's a side effect ok uh... analogy would be
something like that arash
you lipsky tongue
heathrow swells up he had difficulty breathing uh...
those are uh... those are more considered from sears how he's allergic
leo respiratory respiratory sen
physical symptoms have okay
and not unnecessarily
if i take this medicine
eventually banned it goes away
uh... eventually um... to fight if i take this medicine with food
i do better with it
uh... did
you still do like skin tests for allergies for different things week and
we can do askin test but i we also which is i think is more convenient
we offer with this contest by the way the most sensitive way to test for
allergies
but we can offer blood tests working actually uh... do different panels and
say
we can find out what a patient is actually a larger two different pollens
foods
because we can test for those anybody's
let's talk a little bit about skin allergies some
when we'd get
uh... if you get into some poison ivy is that a reaction to that or are you aware
take to poison ivy it's more what we call eight uh...
uh... contact dermatitis that okay
uh... it on your skin you you are having a reaction
to the toxins in this place was poison ivy
poison oak
i different plants
um... you your skin is actually having a physical reaction to it
and the way we treat is very similar allergies
that went to get into the stocks of pain sometimes
you can actually if if you really allergic to that toxic legal actual more
like a bird
behind and people who get blisters and vesicles and sometimes the skin will
come off
uh... which we do the same with allergies we've treated with steroids
which i intend planned to race
uh... we treated with creams
with pills you can take shots and of course we've collected medicine that can
help stop the itching
are you finding that there's certain populations of people that are more
allergy prone than others are differ al cultures or
are you finding that either
interestingly enough to make stupid well
uh... sometimes we're finding that happen americans are more sensitive
to certain how compounds in foods and things like that purses asians
versus caucasians verses europeans
so genetics to play a significant role but were also finding is that has repeat
com more global and i guess uh...
more uh...
heterogeneous and i i know genetics that that's crossing over now uh... so we are
seeing analogies
in in countries and in races highs that we hadn't seen before so it is growing
and like i said before earlier twenty percent of our population in the united
states has some sort of allergy so it's it's its significance
uh... what you find what that our jeanne is
it's avoiding it that's the number one thing you can do uh... common question
that i get asked his ha expensive someone has com indoor allergy symptoms
is do they have pets
uh...
you know and sometimes
it's against the level of of exposure that you have because they can't sleep
in the bedroom
there's a dog sleep in the bedroom are in the bed and sometimes it's keeping
the pet out of the bedroom
uh...
keeping the pet outside
whole or uh...
making sure you have filters in the house and have the filter
now for your furnace at the filter for the vacuum hepa filter in your bedroom
uh... so they can get rid of the allergens in the air
so those right sometimes it's
changing your environment
if you can't necessarily change uh... your environment and minimize
uh... those things that are
uh... causing becoming exposed to those allergens i've heard even people who
have like a lot of dust allergies are taking a carpet in their home in going
with a heart
surface for can actually help
yes and and these are our
things you can do with someone uh... investment allergies nam raksha not
allergic to the best make themselves
but dust mites they feed off our skin
mansell comments the uh... droppings of the dust mites that were very allergic
to one inhaled them
so some things you can do is you can't in cation
mattress
uh... in some impermeable plastic
and now is it doesn't have to be that vinyl feeling that they can be a a more
believable
type uh...
high-density fabric so the dust mites can get to the mattress
in case you pillows
um...
again they have the filters or just
high-skill worship to be a lot of outdoor allergies
hum then i always tell patients used air conditioner uh... keep your windows
closed
wash your hair before you go to bed washing clothes before you go to bed at
night because it's a lot of times
will clear realize that we may not be in the environment
and our hair is full of
uh... pollen and other allergens myself we go to bed without taking a bath to
wash your hair
they were rolling around sleeping and i can aggravate priorities i've noticed
that particular last couple years i can't stick with the windows up a marcus
i wake up
stuffy in that has to be from
pollen and whatever coming through that window set myself
says to stick with the windows open but
give me a miserable the next day it's not worth it
so what are the kinds of things can we do to help with seasonal allergies
do you know is that a physician you know if it's a really drying
that uh... what what affect us whether habitats are really trying your our
allergy jan's worst or better it else would depend on time that the content of
how it is you do have for instance
this past year
uh...
this summer there was some trout than we had some late onset rains
uh... this past year
in the state of illinois we had some of the highest mold spore counts
ever ok normal high uh... mold spore counts haydn height most were concert
fifty thousand
we had over a hundred twenty thousand on sundays we borrow
and then it yet on top of that
people uh... the farmer stress harvesting
that uh... the pollen unto dust technocrats turned up the container
sekela
and then uh... when the farmers are telling me
that they've never seen such mold on their crops and then when you come down
and harbison the molds just in the air contend that can be uh... very
irritating to many patients that their lungs
there no is their mouth their armies and so the symptoms of that ichi throat
and then maybe their voice goes away and then the secretions what happens is our
body when it comes in contact with the charges tries to get rid of them or wash
amout how does it do that it's agreed so you know runny noses uh... more more
secretion of the ones in the throat
uh... tearing in the eyes things like that
i say this is what kind of a gross question right let's talk about
secretions and is also i have heard that
do you can judge by the tc
holler at us
your year snot told the truth is
that if it's a certain collar fits clear cannot help you determine if it's it
experts bacterial or viral are
alturas ok most the time to time generally if someone has a clear
discharged from their nose
abbott i can see
you know when you when you're comic you've been around a one-year-old
that is teething you see those clear secretions coming out copious secretions
coming out from the nose
that mucus
i'm clear that she is a sign of miss moore allergies ok now if you have a
more prevalent discharge him uh... a discharge us more pasta like
that's real thick
hasn't order to adored green brown
that probably is assigned
that they could be infectious ibarra however that said
you know if you're out in the field harvesting
and you have a brown discharge well that's most likely from the dust maybe
are using it
yeah nl port if you've been i'm sure
on some of this experience so if we travel to big cities are places where
there's a lot of pollution
you could just wipe your face
and you see the grind on your skin fair wealthy breeding that and guess what we
need lawyer knows you see any notion too many secretion okay
so in these last few missus cuz if u tips on allergies and what we can do to
sort of
get through this next allergy season particularly if you have outdoor
allergies 'cause that seems to be something that
scanner happened here regardless
if you the individual that has
first of all
your family history if you know that pa
your your mom and dad two brothers and sisters you firstly relatives those
people closest to you blood relatives
have of history valor cheese uh... weatherby food or outdoor
well the new york higher risk for developing allergies uh... so avoiding
those foods or those things that cause allergies
uh... if you know that smoke
uh... bothers realities than making sure you know there are people that smoking
uh... if you can't you know some people are allergic to the pollen in the year
two then
to the trees
to that too that have grasses
uh... to the crops
and if you can avoid those things out
com
having hepa filter in the house closing
you windows were in the air conditioner
either pets not in the bedroom bennett they could be a matter of getting in
over-the-counter remedy ok uh... but not overdosing on that some people think
that
of one works maybe two will be better could benefit actually no you shouldn't
do that comes to taking the recommended dose for that age we await ok uh... and
if that doesn't work
than it is may be going get allergy tested going to see a doctor
see if there's a something else we can do
tell but those allergy symptoms that c don't have to needlessly suffer
no you do not have happened and the kids are
but if you know if specially if you find that allergies are affecting the quality
of life
you not sleeping as well you know voiding certain situation
uh... you it's affecting you relationships
just overall functioning your school your job you work in recent days
then i would say don't do something about it try something over the counter
top two pharmacist
on if that doesn't work
the debt limit appointed to be evaluated by a physician ok all doctor rancher
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