Allergy Nose: Some Tips for Dealing with Stuffy Nose

Spring has finally arrived. With it comes many form of spring allergies. I am a victim of the year along of and spring allergies. First, look at the most boring story of all my problems with allergies: nasal congestion. When we heard the term nasal congestion and nasal allergen, you may not realize how annoying and painful it is. Of course I know all this because I suffered from this kind of nose allergies, that the condition can cause a stuffy nose. (more…)

How to Survive Allergies in Spring and Summer

As a person who suffered form allergies and have a profession as family physician, I have much sympathy for those struggling with itchy, watery eyes, coughing, stuffy nose, postnasal drip, or allergies hay fever and cough. Like spring and summer that can take months, allergies patients have to find a way on how to survive in this season. (more…)

How to Eliminate Dust Mites as Asthma Allergy Prevention

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Do you know that can find dust mites everywhere and in every home? Even though your home is clean, it doesn’t matter, you may still find dust mites. Dust mites are usually the most common type of allergens that can cause asthma and allergies. At one time this type of allergens strike you, you will find difficulties in breathing. (more…)

Allergic Reactions and Autoimmunity - When Immune System Functions Go Wild

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Allergic Reactions

For daily life, of course we need our immune system. Without having immune system, we could not survive long, but there are times when the immune system may harm us rather than helps us. If you suffer from sneezing and stuffy nose, watery eyes, every spring or fall, your doctor may assured your hay fever symptoms. These symptoms are allergic reaction to pollen, dust and spores in the air. (more…)

Oral Tolerance and Antigenic Proteins Founds in Food

gut-associated-lymphoid-tissueHuman body treated all of the food that we ate, either plants or animals, as foreign substances. It is body immune system’s function to protect us from foreign material’s intrusion which may causes harmful to us. Then why does our immune system not oppose and refuse foreign materials that we consume as food?”

Naturally, if our body totally reject those foods which get into our body, we could not survive! Then, what is it that allows for food to plainly evade the roadblock of immune cells and be taken up into our bodies? In the final process, food become an integral part of our tissues and organs, and then be used as fuel for essential body processes. Research has begun to reveal part of the answer to this important issue in our body complex immune system question: the complex series of events known as oral tolerance. (more…)

How Immune System Works - Antigen Antibody Reaction

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Immune system is your body’s defense mechanism to protect from infectious organism and other living object invaded your body. The body reacts through several cellular immune response, and immune system attacks those foreign objects which may cause disease. Immune system consisted of network cells, skins, tissue and organs which work closely to protect body. How immune system works?

Immune system is so important for us to survive since we are surrounded by virus, fungus, parasite and bacteria which always trying to break into our body. (more…)