First aid for allergies

In order to understand how the patient receives first aid for allergies, it is necessary to understand which basic symptoms in typical manifestations of allergic reactions are observed in an allergic person.

When an allergen enters the body, allergic reactions are of two types:

• Fast, sharp, which last for about fifteen minutes;
• slow, manifest not immediately, but, as a rule, during the day.

With delayed reactions, the causes that caused them are harder to identify and, naturally, it is more difficult to find the right medicines in order to eliminate the effect of the allergen in the body. But belated reactions take less severe forms and often do not pose a danger to life, unlike fast ones.

But acute forms of allergic reactions can cause the development of anfilactic shock, urticaria and edema Quincke, and this development of events can become very dangerous for the body, so the patient needs immediate first aid.

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The main types of allergic reactions

One of the most severe allergic conditions is Quincke's edema. Its danger is that swelling of the skin of the face and neck can lead to suffocation and death.

Symptoms of Quincke's Edema:

• breathing becomes wheezy and difficult;
• the skin of the neck, face and limbs are covered with severe heperemia;
• the patient suffers from severe headaches;
• The swelling is accompanied by a hoarse voice;
• The skin is turning blue and turning pale;
• the patient beats fever.

A little less danger compared to anaphylactic shock and edema Quincke is a urticaria. It is caused by the same allergens. When it is impossible to determine the allergen, the urticaria may well have been caused by nervous disorders, stresses, experiences. Then practice the adoption of sedatives, based on natural herbs, until the symptoms disappear.

Hives:

• there are bright pink blisters, because of which there is an itching and burning;
• after two or three hours of having blisters, then they become more pale and completely go away;
• a fever and headache are observed in parallel;

A similar process can last or occur with occasional outbreaks for several days and, in some cases, several months.

First aid for allergies

Naturally, your first action, if any of your loved ones showed up the above signs, should be a call to an ambulance and a call of doctors. Panic in this situation is unacceptable, you must ensure the victim's stay in consciousness before the arrival of doctors.

Basic actions before arrival of first aid

The patient should no longer contact the allergen, from which the allergic reaction has gone. In the event that a person is bitten by an insect, it is necessary to remove poison from the wound, most likely this will have to be done by extrusion or sucking, and the faster the better. When the reaction is triggered by medication or food intake, then a vomitive reflex is needed, and the cleansing enema, gastric lavage will also help the patient. In those situations when the allergy caused a smell, the best way out is to ventilate the room.

The first manifestations of allergic reactions should be eliminated by any of the anti-allergic antihistamines: in such cases, use suprastin, diazolin, fenkarolom, telfast, loratadine, zirtek, tavegil and many others.

The patient is urgently required a comfortable comfortable posture: most likely the victim should be laid, providing a pillow under the head or a small roller - this will give the blood flow to the organs. In addition, it is important for the injured person to ensure maximum airflow to the lungs. If you apply cold to the area of contact with the allergen, this will help slow down the course of immune reactions.

When breathing is stopped, the patient needs immediate artificial respiration.

If the heart stopped, an immediate indirect heart massage is needed.

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First aid for food allergies

A feature of first aid for food allergy is that in order to eliminate the effect of the allergen on the victim, in addition to stopping the use of the product, it is also necessary to rinse the stomach. In addition, you need a copious drink - water, tea, alkaline mineral water will do. A useful solution is to take a sorbent, for example, activated charcoal. It will help to remove from the digestive tract and stomach those substances that caused allergic reactions.

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