Allergies

Your body produces antibodies to help your fight off bateria, viruses and other microbes that can make you sick. When you have an allergy, it means your immune system mistaken something harmless as harmful, hence making antibodies to fight it off.

People can have allergy towards medicine (e.g. penicillin), pollen, food, etc.


Penicillin allergy

Let's see what happens during a food allergy.

When someone is allergic to peanut, and has eaten a peanut butter jelly sandwich, this is what will happen. Antibodies against something in the food will cause mast cells (a type of immune system cell in the body) to release chemicals into the bloodstream. One of these chemicals is histamine. This reaction causes symptoms that affect a person's eyes, nose, throat, respiratory system, skin, and digestive system.

Signs of allegy includes:

Swelling
Rashes
Tightness in the throat
Wheezing
Cough
Nausea
Vomitting
Stomach pain
Diarrhoea

Peanut allergy

An allergy could be mild or severe.

A serious food allergy case can cause anaphylaxis. Which is a sudden, severe allergic reaction whereby several problems involving the skin, breathing, digestion, heart, and blood vessels occur all at once. A person's blood pressure can drop, breathing tubes can narrow, and the tongue can swell.

If you're aware that you have such severe allergy to something, please be very careful. We suggest you write up a plan that can be used for during emergencies. Or have special medicine which can prevent the above mentioned allergy symptoms from getting worse ready by your side.

A note to all MOMS,

If your kids are allergic to a certain kind of food, never allow your child to have any of that particular kind of food. Even if it's only a very tiny bit of that food, it can make your kids fall sick.

Many kids outgrow allergies to milk and eggs as they grow older. However, severe allergies to foods like peanuts and seafood (often shrimp) last a lifetime.


TAKE CARE PEOPLE! ALLERGIES ARE HORRIBLE, DON'T MESS WITH THEM!