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Hives Versus Angioedema.

Both are welts from histamine. Hives sit on the surface of the skin. Angioedema swells beneath it, usually around the eyes and lips, and can reach the throat.
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Why Some People Are More Allergic.

One allergic parent gives you about a 50 percent chance. Two give you 75. Then gender, smoke, eczema and how clean your childhood was all weigh in.
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Jobs That Are Hard On Allergies.

Veterinary clinics, landscaping, salons, housekeeping. Some workplaces are built out of allergens. Here is what helps, and what helps more.
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Cold, Flu, Or Allergies?

Same runny nose, sneezing and cough. Different causes, different durations, different treatments. Three questions sort it out.
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Tired? It Could Be Allergies.

A stuffy nose ruins sleep, the medication for it makes you drowsy, and the immune system burns energy fighting pollen all day. Fatigue is an allergy symptom.
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Written From The Exam Room.

Our founder spent more than thirty years in private allergy practice before starting AllergyEasy.These pieces began as his blog and have been updated and consolidated. Each one ends the same way, because the question underneath most of them is the same: can this allergy be treated, not just managed? Usually, yes.Nothing here replaces a conversation with your own physician.
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Risk factors

Genes, Gender, Smoke, Skin.

HeredityAllergy-prone, or atopic, families pass down an immune system quick to make IgE antibodies. One allergic parent: about 50 percent risk. Two: about 75.
Gender and smokeThe Isle of Wight study found risk rises when the same-sex parent is allergic. Smoking in pregnancy and secondhand smoke in infancy raise the odds of allergy and asthma.
EczemaAbout 30 percent of people with eczema develop food allergy, and 50 to 70 percent of children with severe eczema develop asthma.
Between 20 And 25 Percent Of Americans Have Allergies
The hygiene hypothesis

Are We Too Clean?

Children raised on farms, with pets, in larger families and in daycare tend to have fewer allergies.The theory is that an immune system exposed early to microbes learns proportion, while one raised in a sanitized home looks for enemies and finds pollen. It is still a hypothesis, but it fits the two-to-threefold rise in allergic disease across industrialized countries since the 1970s.Antibiotic use, diet and indoor living are also under study.
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Risk Is Not Destiny.

You cannot change your parents. You can change how your immune system responds.Immunotherapy retrains the overreaction itself. Allergy drops do it at home, from early childhood, which is when interrupting the march from eczema to food allergy to asthma matters most.
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