Skin Allergies
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Allergy to the skin, most often, begins to develop from the hands, it is the skin of the hands that is more susceptible to the influence of ever increasing aggressive environmental factors. The topic of skin allergies has already been beaten enough, but, nevertheless, it continues to be relevant, and still raises more questions than answers. Look around you, standing in the kitchen, in the bathroom or in the toilet. Pay special attention to the number of cleaning and cleaning products, as well as the ways in which you save yourself, your hands from penetrating all this chemistry into the skin.
The skin allergy develops not only under the influence of external stimuli, but also the internal state of the organism, the level of its protective forces, the perfection of metabolic processes and the absence of chronic infectious foci. Skin dermatitis can occur on their own, and may be a consequence of the manifestation of other types of allergies, for example, food. Never start treatment of a symptom, which may serve as an allergic dermatitis, without understanding the situation in a complex manner. After complete examination and making sure that changes on the skin are caused by allergic dermatitis, you can proceed to the next stage, identify the main allergen and eliminate its harmful effects on the body.
[What causes allergies to the skin?
The above chemical components of household detergents, alas, are not the only reason for the development of skin allergies. To number of strong allergens it is necessary to rank:
- most types of indoor plants, including lily, pink, kutra, malvos, nocturnal and other families. Especially dangerous are the plants that produce milky juice. When a drop of this juice hits the skin of a person's hands, with a high predisposition to allergies, a rapid and violent skin reaction occurs, leading to severe burns, followed by prolonged dermatitis in the affected area;
- pollen of flowering plants, especially wild plants. Homemade flowers, when flowering, also form pollen, but because of artificial selection, its effect as an allergen is not as strong as in those plants whose reproduction occurs in natural conditions. But having a tendency to allergies, it is better to avoid contact even with house-blossoming plants;
- food products containing natural and artificial colors, protein foods, honey, nuts, and chocolate. A list of products that can provoke an allergy can consist of hundreds of titles and for each person these will be different lists;
- groups of medicines, such as: antibiotics, vitamins, iodine derivatives;
- cosmetical tools.
There is an allergy to the skin, in most cases, immediately after contact with the allergen. Flow can be bright or mildly expressed, it all depends, first of all, on the susceptibility of the body, as well as the strength of the allergen, the amount of its exposure to the skin and the duration of the depressing effect.
How is the skin allergy recognized?
To begin with, it is necessary to establish the cause of the skin reaction and to put the correct diagnosis of allergy on the skin. Then start a properly thought out and adequately justified course of treatment with the subsequent prevention of cases of possible relapse.
Now, even in the smallest pharmacy, you can find rapid tests by which it is easy to determine if there is an allergy on the skin or it is just a temporary irritation of the skin receptors. Express tests include skin scarifiers capable of detecting IgE antibodies in the blood, the presence of which indicates the development of an allergic reaction.
On the basis of only improvised means of determining the allergic nature of skin manifestations, it is not necessary to build a self-treatment course. For more accurate diagnosis, skin allergy, and, first of all, for a detailed identification of the true allergen, you need to seek help from an allergist.
How is skin allergy treated?
Treatment of any allergic manifestations begins with the elimination of the main factor contributing to the receipt of the allergen in the body. If a person is only concerned about an allergy to the skin of the hands, then it is necessary to completely abandon the cosmetic means, and when working with household chemicals, use rubber gloves, preferably with a cotton base, without the talc content. Avoid contact with pets and plants, exclude from the diet all foods that are highly allergenic.
It is advisable to use local ointment remedies based on corticosteroids, herbal baths, broths, chamomile and celandine. Simultaneous reception of antihistamines, selected in an adequate dose on the basis of individual characteristics and the severity of the allergic reaction, will give a positive result, and in a few days you can expect to completely get rid of the symptoms of dermatitis.
How is skin allergy prevented?
On measures to prevent the recurrence of allergic dermatitis should talk with an allergist. On the basis of the obtained allergological studies of your particular case, a number of effective methods and means will be selected that allow in the future to avoid situations in which an allergy to the skin can return again.