What does the allergy look like?
Last reviewed: 19.11.2021
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Any allergy hastens to make themselves known by various symptoms, which you should pay attention to and take measures to identify and eliminate the source of malaise. If a person has first encountered this disease, he may not know what the allergy looks like, and start independently taking medications intended to eliminate any other ailment with similar symptoms. And the allergy, meanwhile, will continue to progress, causing feelings of anxiety, discomfort, etc.
How to recognize an allergy?
Most often, allergy is confused with diseases such as scabies or fungal infection. Some may confuse the malaise with chickenpox and do not immediately start treatment for "chickenpox". In other words, it is necessary to understand what the allergy looks like, so as not to treat non-existent diseases.
Most of all, the allergy is similar to hives - it also suddenly appears and can also persist for hours or days. Hives are characterized by fever, itchy skin, redness of the skin, diarrhea, abdominal pain. Similar signs are shown and at some kinds of an allergy.
There is such a thing as contact dermatitis - this is when the appearance of red, itchy skin appears only in those places that directly touched the allergen. What does allergy look like in this case? First of all, the place of contact is covered with vesicles or blisters, the intolerable skin itching progresses. To stop the development of these symptoms, you need to get rid of the allergen as soon as possible, stop touching it. By the way, some people suffer from cold dermatitis - this is when the skin turns red, it itches and becomes stained due to cold exposure to the skin.
In addition to itching and reddened skin, there are a lot of other signs that allow you to find out what the allergy looks like. For example, this is the tear of the eyes. Tears flow, almost without stopping, from frequent friction the eyelids swell. Even such a concept as allergic conjunctivitis is known.
The diagnosis of "Quincke's Edema", as well as hives, is accompanied by allergic symptoms such as swollen lips, eyes, cheeks, eyelids and even the larynx. Both these diseases are very dangerous for the human body and health in general, as they affect the layers of subcutaneous tissue, causing suffocation, which can lead to death.
Allergic rhinitis is another sign of what an allergy looks like. Often, this ailment is called an allergic rhinitis, accompanied, as a rule, by sneezing, nasal congestion and intolerable skin itching. According to allergy sufferers, from the nose constantly "flows", one handkerchief in half an hour is replaced by another. Because of frequent sneezing, headaches begin. Very often, patients confuse allergic rhinitis with the onset of a cold.
The occurrence of an allergic rhinitis is facilitated by the inhalation of flower pollen, dandruff and animal hair, house dust, mushroom spores, etc. Vasoconstrictors in this situation are powerless.
What if it's allergic?
You can not in any case do self-medication allergy, because you can only exacerbate the situation. Even if the patient knows what the allergy looks like and it is clear that the ailment that has arisen is an allergy and nothing else, in any circumstances, after rendering yourself or another first aid, you should immediately go to the medical center for the doctor to diagnose the general condition of the organism and, possibly, contributed to the early elimination of symptoms of malaise.