Our immune system is a complex and wonderful system. When in balance, it does a seamless job of identifying and eliminating potential threats to our health, such as toxins, bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells. However, sometimes our immune system responds too vigorously to a substance in the environment that is usually harmless, such as pollen, animal dander, or mold.
An exaggerated immune response can lead to symptoms in the lungs (asthma) and skin (hives, eczema). Allergies affect a large percentage of the population at one time or another and can significantly limit activity. Although the body can mount allergic responses to many things, including food, medicines, and other foreign material, in this article we will discuss the common phenomenon of environmental or seasonal allergies.
The immune system is our defence mechanism the protects us from a number of disease-causing pathogens. This works like first identifying the harmful substance, which is mostly a protein molecule which is foreign to the body called antigen, the immune system identifies it and producing a spark and destroying.
But in this spark, it would also burn some of the healthy tissue around which causes a bit of redness, a bit bleed, and swelling maybe pain burning in the area called inflammation, which is later cleared out of the system and new tissue is replaced in place of it.
Now the inflammation though maybe painful but is helpful in defence, but now imagine if this inflammation continues without halt for a long time or unstoppably then what?? The body will become more defensive and would start reacting to everything or most the things it comes in contact with. Because body loses the ability to differentiate between a foreign item and self. So you become allergic to most of the items. The main reason is systemic inflammation.
The complications of systemic inflammation are, it is one of the main factor for most of the chronic diseases we suffer in our lives like