How to Treat Your Pet Allergies Symptoms

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Pet allergies are allergic reactions that happened to pets more like allergy reactions that people have. But unlike allergies reactions in human, pets do not get runny noses or watery eyes. Most of pet allergies symptoms appear only on their skins. That’s why you see when your pets have allergies to something, your dogs or cats have tendency to scratching, licking and chewing part of their skins. Pet allergy symptoms may come along seasonally in some time during spring or summer, but the allergy reactions in your pets can be permanent and need a serious treatment.

Pet allergies symptoms may have demonstrated in frequent scratching or bites themselves. (more…)

Food Allergies and Intolerance — Basic Mechanisms

food-allergy-food-intoleranceOur current knowledge for trigger factor and food allergy intolerance is still in it infancy level. We already known that the allergic intolerance are different for groups of people. Some individuals are less resistant in developing allergy than others. Allergic sensitivity or atopic allergic disease are heritable and this means that genetic factors is playing a critical role. But the latest researches reveal that it is not merely heredity factors, environmental also have significant impact for someone to develop allergy.

Allergy trigger in the form of food allergen are mostly fallen to some certain foods like milk, egg, peanuts, fish, soya and nuts. We are curios on what is so peculiar about allergens in food? (more…)

Why Do We Need Immune System ?

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The main reason that your body has an immune system is for your survival. Without immune system, human body is a delightful place for microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites to live. The condition of your body is really conducive for microbes bacteria to grow. Your body is warm, moist and full of nutrients, this is the perfect condition for microbes bacteria to survive and reproduce. But do not expect gratitude from those microbes bacteria you have in your body system. Most of them have no idea what happens to you. Some of them can cause illness and some can be deadly. (more…)

Drug Allergy and Adverse Drug Reactions from Immunologic Basic Perspective

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Drug allergy and adverse drug reactions are common among many people. Those side affect of consuming drugs affecting an about 30% of hospitalized patients. Unintended and undesired reactions of consuming drugs may be immunologic or non immunologic nature. The latter let in drug toxicity, side effects, food intolerance symptoms, and idiosyncratic reactions, popular known as drug allergy. (more…)

The Basic of Food Allergy | Food Sensitivity Symptoms

food-allergy-food-sensitivityIt is estimated that more than 12 millions of American are having food allergy. About 4 percent of adults are having this disease and nearly 6 to 9 percent children under the age of 3 are having the same illness. The prevalence of food allergies is rising, where the most common food allergy in children are caused by milk allergy in children, eggs, peanuts allergy and tree nuts. In adults, the most common allergic reaction are triggered by peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish, fish and eggs. (more…)

Active Immunization and Type of Vaccines

active-immunizationImmunization is needed for person to be prevented of getting diseases, whereas in bigger scale, it is needed to eradicate the break out of diseases in population area. Immunization has accounted for prominent advances in health around the world. Immunizations in children are part of routine health care and it is necessary to do so. Major governments in the world have financed the implementation of vaccines available publicly. Many states in US have laws requiring validation of immunization as a precondition for school entry. Because of this progress, many viruses disease like poliomyelitis, diphtheria, and tetanus have all but disappeared in some developed nations. Some diseases like measles, rubella, and pertussis are still available but rare. World Health Organization has made poliomyelitis disease as the next target for eradication. (more…)

Antibodies and the Immune Response

Antibodies which are also known as immunoglobulin are found in our blood and other bodily fluids. Antibodies are used as a mechanism by natural immune system to identify, counteract, and neutralize foreign objects which are entered our body. B Cells is the first cell reacted when foreign objects entered our body and triggered the first alarming mode of immune system. It then try to recognize it and subsequently will proceed in the antibody production. There are five different types of antibody produced: IgA, IgG,IgM, IgE and IgD. Bellow we will discuss B Cells in antibody production process and three of the most prominent antibodies: IgA, IgM, and IgG.

B Cells in Antibody Production Process

B cells main function is in the process of antibody production. As you probably know, antibodies are complex structured molecules as result of body immune systems in response to antigens which are entered our body. Antigens are foreign subtracted objects which are mainly (more…)