Seasonal Allergies

When I hear sneezing in serial after my son waking up, I know the spring and worm weather are come. Since his third year, he use anti-allergy therapy when problematic season start. And nothing change, only salvation is autumn and less pollen in air.

Seasonal allergies or seasonal allergic rhinitis are bunch of allergy symptoms that occurs during same periods every year. In that time trees, grass and weeds release pollen in air. Pollen count is higher in the morning and during warm, dry, breezy days, and lower in chilly and wet days. The immune system of people with who is allergic on pollen, treat pollen like attacker and realise some chemicals (histamine) in bloodstream. In that way, body fight with pollen, and then you get your allergies symptoms.

 

People could be allergies on few different type of pollen and spores. Usually, according timing of symptoms appearing you can assess what kind of allergy is about. 

Kids can develop allergies later in life, no matter they don't have it on birth (my son "got" allergy when he was 3 years old). It can happen when kid is 10 years old, and the symptoms can increase with kids growing up. Sure, genetic predispositions are miriacle, so I wasn't surprised when Vuk's allergy shows up.  In the other hand, it's possibly that with growing up allergy become weaker, and stop at some moment. 

Symptoms

If your kid get cold at the same period every year, you can blame seasonal allerens for that. Symptoms, which usaully came on suddenly and last as long as a person is exposed to allergen, can include:

• sneezing
• itchy nose and/or throat
• nasal congestion
• clear, runny nose
• coughing

With this you can get itching, watery and/or red eyes, which is called allergic conjunctivitis. Vuk is already used to that, so when it happen, he by himself wash eyes with clear water. After that itching and redness stop. Also, he very well knows that he can't touch weeds, because he most react on weeds pollen.

 

Source:http://firstmedcenters.com/library/allergy-at-a-glance/

If your child has wheezing and shortness of breath in addition to these symptoms, pay attention, because the allergy may have progressed into asthma.

Diagnosis

If you suspect that your kid has seasonal allergy, talk to his doctor. To be sure that it is allergy, you can do skin-test to your kid. It's not so good, because you traumatize kid, and next year kid can be allergic on some other allergen (it's changeable). So, if your kid don't have some dramatic problems, try to delay skin-testing with decreasing symptoms, until the chile is 7 years old.  

Treatment

There's no magic cure for seasonal allergies, it's possible just to allay symptoms. Start with reducing exposure to allergens. During the season keep windows closed, use air-condition, and stay in house while pollen count is high. And now, please, let somebody tells me: How to keep my son in house, while his friends play soccer on meadow in a summer? No way! He go out, and when he came back, I put him in a shower and clothes go in washing machine. We wash nose with saline, and that's it!