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How Your Body Reacts to Allergies
Dr. Travis Stork: What is an allergy? Here is what’s going on inside your body. Every time you breathe in for instance air that’s full of dust or pollen, what happens is your body actually has an inappropriate response to that pollen and its defenses get armed up. Your body produces antibodies to that allergen, attaches to something. They are called mast cells. When an allergy hits antibodies, your mast cell releases massive amounts of histamine. Those green dots are histamine. Well, your histamine receptors grasp on those green dots which your histamine and then you get that big runny nose, the stuffy nose.
How do you prevent it? Stay away from the allergen or as you're seeing in this animation, histamine blockers, antihistamines can actually prevent histamine from latching on, causing all those terrible symptoms. That’s why something is simple as going to the drugstore usually after discussion with your own physician, starting antihistamines can really reduce a lot of these symptoms of hay fever.
Dr. Drew Ordon: Antihistamines have improved so much. They really, it's like 4th generation now. They really have improved those side effects that in the past putting you to sleep, other things.
Dr. Jim Sears: And the dry mouth—
Dr. Drew Ordon: Dry mouth, those things. It’s much, much, better now but sometimes you have to experiment which is the best antihistamine for you.
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