Immune System and Allergies (I)
The main types of immune system disorders are allergies and autoimmune diseases, which seems to affect women more than men.
Allergies and immune system disorders its incidence is rising dramatically worldwide, especially among the poorest inhabitants of the cities. Analysis of biological and social implications of this increase suggests that changes in food production, transportation and consumption taking place around the globe could be contributing to these disorders of the immune system. Given the impact that changes in diet may be having on human health, understanding the interaction between the immune system and food has become a major issue, and even urgent.
I woke up one morning with another terrible headache. I have said is probably caused by an allergy to something in the air. Given the impossibility of taking any drug that would allow me to stay awake or trying to work through the pain, I started reading the newspaper. I ended up engrossed in an article about a new way to treat immune disorders, that is supplied to patients by mouth part of the body against which the immune system is reacting. Patients experience a remission or significant relief of symptoms. I’m as mad at the implications that this may entail. Is not it true that my immune system is reacting to a harmless substance in the air as it could be pollen or a fungus, treating it as if it were a harmful substance that should be attacked, causing swelling and pain in my sinuses?
You may simply have to eat what causes this reaction … Richard suggests that eating local honey and not cast directly from the comb. The bees have done all the work of collecting pollen of all kinds along with airborne particles of all kinds. Whatever the substance of which I am allergic, should be in the honey, if so, eat it. Immediately bought honey collected from hives in a village near where I live. A few days after starting to eat honey, I felt a deep pain relief. Since then, as soon as honey from where I am, my sinus problems disappear completely.
(Emily Martin is a cultural anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University)
The main types of immune system disorders (immune system) are allergies and autoimmune diseases. They seem to affect women more than men. Allergies such as those produced in reaction to some foods, hay fever and asthma, occur when the immune system “overreact” to certain airborne particles of benign or mildly toxic, such as pollen or certain food components like highly toxic.
The immunological reactions expel these particles from the body with such force that cause damage “testimony” to the lungs, intestines or other tissue exposed to the mechanism of defense, sometimes can cause death from shock, dehydration or suffocation.
Autoimmune diseases, on the other hand, occur when the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissues or cells belonging to the individual and not alien or foreign substances. In arthritis, for example, the immune system attacks the collagen or other tissues of the joints in the primary stages of diabetes attacks the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas, and multiple sclerosis attacks the nerve sheath cells.
Immune disorders are increasing worldwide. The American Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases warning about that “U.S. allergies affect one in five people.”
credit to: Richard A. Cone
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Great post, Ingrid. I’d like to add: most pure essential oils aren’t triggers for asthma and can in fact be helpful but only under the guidance of qualified aromatherapist. There is much misinformation about using essential oils and pets (one of these days, I’m going have to write that one . I love the German-made Venta humidifier/air purifier for keeping the air fresh.