Sweet allergy

An allergy to the sweet is most often an infantile disease, but adults do not bypass the disease. Immediately determine which specific product caused the allergic reaction of the body, it is difficult, but possible. This article gives several tips for diagnosing a particular kind of allergy.

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What causes an allergy to the sweet?

The reason for the allergy to the sweet is the fermentation of undigested food residues, caused by sucrose. If a person already has a tendency to an allergic reaction, the products of decay, very quickly falling into the blood, increase the active action of the allergy. Sucrose is found in syrups, flour and confectionery products, sweets, as well as in some vegetables and fruits.

What are the symptoms of an allergy to sweet?

Symptoms of allergy to the sweet must be known "in person", so as not to confuse them with the symptoms of other diseases or intolerance of some food. The main manifestations of this kind of allergy are itching and redness of the skin on the legs, arms, neck and face. It should be noted that the allergy can not detect itself immediately, but only after a certain time. The most dangerous symptoms that can lead a patient to death, are Quincke's edema, asthma, anaphylactic shock.

An allergy to dessert does not mean that a person should give up absolutely all sweets. Many sweet foods contain glucose, which is necessary for the body to function properly. Often you can observe this situation: a person who refused all sweets at once, becomes himself not - he is irritated about anything, he does not control his actions, he often gets nervous, does not sleep well at night, feels a constant sense of fatigue. This is due to lack of glucose in the body, as well as from the fact that a person lost something that brought him pleasure. That is why it is necessary to identify and exclude from the diet only the product that is an allergen, and all other sweets can be consumed in the same amount.

An allergy to sweet often torments those people who consume foods rich in sucrose. These include cakes, sweets, cookies and other confectionery.

A fairly common sweet allergen is honey. But the body's reaction does not arise to the sucrose contained in this product, but to plant pollen. By the way, honey can and does not cause an allergy - it depends on what pollen of which plants is part of this natural sweetness. Honey, if it does not lead to an allergic reaction of the body, can be used as a remedy in the fight against allergies to sweet. However, before you start treatment with honey, you need to find out how the body reacts to this product.

Allergies to milk sugar - lactose - children are usually exposed, but sometimes adults suffer from this ailment.

How is the allergy to the sweet?

Parents of children who know firsthand how the allergy to the sweet in childhood manifests, for sure can share valuable tips on how to protect the child from contact with sweets. Although adults are also immune from allergic reactions of this type, they are much easier to cope with temptation than children.

How to explain to the little sweetheart that everything he so passionately desires is not for him personally, when all other children can be? How to avoid tears and hysterics at home, and especially in the store, when the desired product is within reach? What exactly causes an allergy in sweets and how, this most allergy, is manifested? Can it be cured and if so, how? This is not all the issues that interest every parent, before which the door opened a serious problem of a child's allergy to sweet.

First, let's talk about how the allergy to the sweet. Most often in everyday life you can hear the expression "again the diathesis poured out." By this concept, parents determine any rashes on the baby's skin, especially noticed that diathesis rashes often appear after consuming a significant amount of sweets.

Even a completely healthy child, having eaten a whole bar of chocolate at one go, risks getting a rash all over the body. However, there are a number of symptoms that distinguish allergy from sweet to other causes of allergic reactions: 

• redness of the hands, manifested in the form of itchy spots; 
• rashes on the chin, collarbones, anterior surface of the neck, accompanied by severe itching. When combing the itching area quickly becomes crusted; 
• areas of dry skin on the legs, reminiscent of the exfoliation.

If the body has an increased predisposition to allergic reactions, the manifestations can be violent and acute from the first minutes of contact with the allergen. An allergic reaction, in such cases, is likely to be accompanied not only by rashes on the skin, but also by severe swelling, the most dangerous of which is the swelling of the larynx by the Quincke principle, which covers the breath.

Another dangerous condition that can develop at the time of the allergy is anaphylactic shock - a complete violation of all vital processes of the body. Such a manifestation is possible when the components of sweet food become provocateurs of another allergen, most often of protein origin.

In this case, a chain reaction starts, some manifestations are complicated by others, as a result of which the general condition of the body suffers sufficiently and the situation can be saved only with the help of professional medics.

What does the allergy look like?

We have just reviewed the main symptom indicators that indicate the onset of an allergic reaction after eating confectionery products. Determine exactly how an allergy to a sweet can look like any person who is able to compare the fact of a recently eaten chocolate with the instant appearance of a rash on a specific part of the body.

Each person, depending on the state of general health, on the strength of the body's immune defense, allergic reactions are of different stages of manifestation. In some cases, the allergy to the sweet can occur with a slight itchy rash on the cheeks, neck and inner surface of the forearm, which pass without much interference for several hours or days.

In other situations, even a small candy is enough to show a whole range of negative feelings, from itching and rash, to loss of consciousness. It is important to monitor the child. As soon as the rash appears, anxiety caused by itching is noticed - it is necessary to immediately analyze the food intake and identify the most suspicious foods, placing an emphasis, primarily on the sweet.

Treatment is sweet with allergies

When there is an allergy to sweet treatment begin, first of all, with the strictest diet, which is called "hypoallergenic", excluding all products that can become an allergen for the body. Still this diet is called therapeutic, because, in most cases, only by eliminating allergenic products can you get rid of all the negative symptoms without even resorting to medication.

To facilitate the situation, symptomatic measures are taken to relieve itching, swelling and rash, resorting to drugs from the fourth generation of antihistamines.

In difficult situations, disinfection therapy is carried out, as a result of which all toxins are eliminated from the body, which were developed during the allergy process.

It is best to treat any allergy treatment under the strict supervision and guidance of a pediatrician or an allergist in order to avoid unnecessary negative consequences in the form of complications.

What if you are allergic to dessert?

When you have the first signs of an allergy to sweet, you must stop eating before finding out the source of the disease. If the allergenic product is known, it should immediately stop using it. However, to give up the sweet sometimes can be very difficult, so before you start to heal, you need to tune in to get rid of the disease, so that during the treatment do not break and do not start again to use the product-allergen.

Today, there are many ways to cure a condition such as an allergy to the sweet. One of them is the gradual accustoming of the organism to the allergen by introducing it under the skin in very small doses. The procedure is carried out under the strict supervision of a physician.