What Are Allergies And Some Of The Treatments? - Dr. Mark Dykewicz

SLUCare Allergist Dr. Mark Dykewicz talks generally about what allergies are including seasonal allergies, pet allergies, food allergies and insect allergies.

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Allergic reactions are reactions to proteins in your environment and could your eyes, breathing, skin as well as other aspects of your health. While allergic asthma could affect breathing, people with food allergies could have problems with their bowels and nausea and with more severe reactions there could be problems with blood pressure and some actually go into shock. There are other reactions such as contact dermatitis that can be detected through patch testing. Allergy medications work in different ways, antihistamines block the allergic effect on body. Other medications work more with inflammation.

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