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As allergies can cause more symptoms than just a runny nose or an itchy throat and watery eyes, there are many signs to look out for when you suspect that you might be suffering from an allergy. More often than not allergy patients will also experience a feeling of a raised body temperature or malaise during allergy attacks.
Assess Your Allergy
Do you want to know if those symptoms that you are suffering are due to an allergy? Take the test and find out!
How to use your inhaler
Inhalers are the most common type of medication devices used in asthma treatment. Inhalers can contain either preventer or reliever medication or sometimes both of them (combination inhalers). Preventers have to be taken on a daily basis, as they help to control the inflammation in your respiratory tract via which helps to avoid asthma exacerbations and keep your lung function at normal levels. Read more
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Tips for Allergies
Did you know that allergy immunotherapy can help you overcome your allergies or that if you keep your eye-drops in the fridge, the relief for your itchy eyes will be quicker?
Read these and more tips for allergies here.
Allergen Immunotherapy
 In the last few years specific immunotherapy has made major steps forward to become an effective and safe treatment of allergic rhinitis and asthma. Immunotherapy is currently the only treatment that can stop or even cure respiratory allergies. There are different ways by which immunotherapy can be administered to allergic patients. Find out what immunotherapy can do for your allergies in the video Allergen Immunotherapy.
Allergy and Schools
Allergy affects up to a quarter of children in Western countries. This means that there are 4 to 8 allergic children at every classroom. Allergy may cause different symptoms, from very mild ones, such as occasional sneezing or nose rubbing, to very severe ones, such as asthma attacks or anaphylactic reactions that may pose a risk to the life of the child. In addition to the common problems that all children face at school, allergic children have specific problems due to their symptoms. Read more
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Quality of life (QoL)
What does quality of life mean? Importance.
Quality of life (QoL) is a wide concept which embraces diverse factors, both objective and subjective, that could disturb a person in a defined period of his or her life. Health related quality of life (HRQL) is the specific part of QoL which is affected by health and disease and constitutes a powerful measure of health assessment in allergy in recent times, being the only suitable method in some allergies.
How is it used?
Specific or generic questionnaires concerning different allergic diseases have been developed after active and profound research. By asking simple questions, these questionnaires evaluate how allergies influence several aspects of daily life including working, social and leisure activities.
Why is it important to assess QoL in my case?
As an outcome measure for different medical or preventive measures, QoL provides your doctor with useful information regarding the impact and limitation your disease imposes to you; it will therefore help to adjust therapeutic and culminate in your personal benefit.
Is QoL being used in every medical setting?
As Health Related Quality of Life is a relatively new instrument, some centers have not initiated its use on a regular basis in all pathologies. But surely it will become a generalized practice in most settings due to its suitability, easiness, effectiveness and convenience.
Please do not hesitate to ask your doctor about Quality of Life in your specific situation. |
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