Pollinosis

Description:

The pollinosis is a seasonal disease which reason allergic reaction to pollen of plants is.

Pollinosis symptoms:

Symptoms of a pollinosis appear almost at the same time every year — cold, reddening of eyes (conjunctivitis), dermatitis, fatigue, irritability, irritation in a throat, cough, sometimes suffocation attacks, is rare — skin manifestations. Развиватся fever, from there was also a name of a disease.

The disease is very often confused to cold that tightens the request of patients for professional medical care time for many years.

Pollinosis reasons:

Pollen of preferential anemogamous plants as it is rather fine particles of the sizes about 0,02 — 0,04 mm that facilitates their penetration into respiratory tracts is the reason of development of a disease.

In folklore of patients there is an idea that the symptomatology in May-June is caused by poplar down which owing to the sizes cannot get into respiratory tracts. In addition, down is not pollen, and poplar fruits.

Treatment of the Pollinosis:

Distinguish two main complementary methods of therapy:

    * Pathogenetic and symptomatic therapy in the period of an aggravation which usually includes use of antihistaminic drugs and topical glyukokortikosterid.
    * An allergen-specific immunotherapy causal and significant allergen which is carried out out of the aggravation period.