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What Causes Allergies? Many Things Do

If you listed all of the things which can cause allergic reactions, you'd be listing basically everything in the world. People, who are exposed to one thing over and over again thousands of times, are the ones who will come down with allergic reactions. However, one person might become allergic while another under the same circumstances don't. To understand what causes allergies is to get rid of the symptoms.

Food allergies symptoms can manifest in strange ways. If you get a stabbing pain between your shoulder blades, that might be related to food. Look at what you ate the day before. Keeping a journal can be an effective method of getting rid of the symptoms. Whenever you get a symptom that you think might be related, let's say you have egg allergy symptoms, then write it down. If you think you might have peanut allergy symptoms, and then write down what symptoms you had and how severe they were. Give the pain a number between zero and ten where zero is no symptom and ten is the worst you could imagine.

You might wonder what causes allergies, well many food products cause allergies. The common ones are wheat, gluten (the protein from wheat), animal dandruff, peanut fungus or peanuts, potato fungus or potatoes, eggs, milk products, fungi, yeasts, chemicals, hair shampoos¡­ and I could keep listing for days.

Long-chain proteins can sometimes cause allergies, such as a milk protein allergy. Sometimes the body mistakes one thing for another. If your immune system starts fighting food as if it were an invading organism, that's when you get allergic symptoms.

There are many allergy control products which can help, including machines which take the particulates out of the air such as air filters or ionizers. Ionizers work on the assumption that if you charge the offending particles, then draw those attracted particles away so that they adhere to a charged plate, they've been removed from the room.

So, what causes allergies? Particles in the air are generally what cause allergies, but it might be that you took it in by eating it, or it might have just been put on your skin. It has to have touched you in some way.

Unfortunately, conventional doctors don't do very well with allergies. Many don't even 'believe' that there are such things as allergies, even though considerable research has shown the mechanisms behind allergic response. The histamine response which occurs when the body is trying to combat something is intimately tied in with things such as asthma or allergic reactions.

If the doctors don't understand well what causes allergies, how are we to do anything about it? Well, just because doctors remain ignorant, doesn't mean that you should. People who experience what are termed, 'classic migraines', understand that you might take action.

Classic migraines are not just when you get a headache. They can be associated with the central part of your vision being suddenly not there. You're reading, and then you can't see the letters any more. Slowly moving patterns of light can radiate upwards in waves as if there're actually 'out there' when it's just electrical activity as it passes across your visual cortex. They tend to give ergot (a kind of really bad fungus) to those who have migraines, but what if you're also allergic to fungi, which is very common for those with allergies. If you can find out what causes allergies, then you can remove that offending substance.