Allergy is one of the most widespread and difficult to treat diseases of modern man. New drugs and treatment methods are constantly appearing, but the statistics remain disappointing – the number of cases of allergic reactions is constantly growing. According to WHO experts, this pathology is one of the six most common among the world’s population. Allergies are reported to affect about 10% of the population today.

 Influence of the environment

More recently, heredity was considered the cause of allergies, but the rapid increase in the incidence has become a clear marker that there are other causes of this disease. The second popular theory for the occurrence of allergic reactions has become an unfavorable ecology and other environmental factors.

Indeed, since the middle of the twentieth century, mineral fertilizers, pesticides, growth stimulants, antibiotics and other previously unused substances have come to agriculture en masse. The food industry uses flavor enhancers, preservatives, dyes, and recently genetically modified foods (GMOs) have appeared on the shelves in large quantities. All these factors negatively affect human health.

Scientists say that mass refusal of breastfeeding leads to a decrease in immunity, which also provokes the appearance of allergies. Risk factors included bowel disease, smoking, alcohol abuse, stress. But in-depth medical research has shown that all these problems cannot be the only causes of an allergic reaction.

Self-medication problem

Recently, the idea of ​​freeing the body from “toxins” and cleaning it with the help of special detoxification programs with the help of special preparations has become very fashionable. Most often, a person begins to cleanse the body at the first, skin manifestations of an allergic reaction, they are considered the primary signs of clogging of the body with toxins, when the liver can no longer cope with blood cleansing on its own.

Oddly enough, these techniques, widely recognized as pseudoscientific, have a certain medical rationale. The specialized literature describes cases when a person, after a liver transplant, began to suffer from food allergies, which his donor suffered from. This irrefutably proves that the liver is an organ directly related to the development of allergic reactions.

The body is like a chemical laboratory

The liver is one of the central organs where a large number of chemical reactions take place that support the vital functions of the body. It processes and assimilates fats, produces a set of hormones, enzymes responsible for maintaining the immune system, blood clotting. Through the blood, all medications consumed by a person must enter into it; there is also a depot of vitamins and other substances necessary to maintain vital activity. Most of the toxins and alcohol that enter the body are rendered harmless in the liver.

The simplified liver model is a highly efficient filter that purifies the blood, so all allergens inevitably end up in it. If this organ is not up to the task, allergy pathogens release substances that cause inflammation, such as histamine. At the molecular level, it causes known symptoms:

• rashes
• swelling,
• runny nose,
• itching
• cough,
• labored breathing.

The liver does not require a mythical “cleansing”

The multifunctionality of the lists implies an increased “safety margin” of this organ, which must be laid down by nature. That is why there is no need to “cleanse” the liver with additional drugs. Even with severe lesions, this organ is able to recover on its own.

The human body constantly produces liver cells that replace damaged tissue or obsolete and dying cells. But if the liver works under increased stress, in unfavorable environmental conditions, a person abuses spicy and fatty foods, alcohol, serious problems begin . Therefore, lovers of “cleansing” are right that this body requires special attention and care.

Take care of yourself

This is an essential principle for people with allergies. Modern medicine has not found ideal methods and drugs that would equally well help all patients, completely eliminating the problem. It is necessary to carefully monitor the condition of the liver, not to overload it. First of all, you need to review your diet and give up alcohol. Interestingly, alcohol is not an allergen, but its effect on blood vessels enhances the effect of any of the allergens.

Diet in the treatment of allergies has been used for a long time and successfully. When compiling a diet, you need to use a simple principle – not all products are suitable for all people.

In most cases, one should focus on the food that the ancestors of a particular person consumed, which returns to the question of national cuisines, using other people’s products very limitedly.

The universal risk group that can cause an allergic reaction in anyone includes:

• eggs,
• dairy and seafood,
• different types of nuts,
• soybeans,
• oddly enough, wheat.

The liver can be helped

If a properly selected diet does not ensure the absence of allergic reactions, measures must be taken. The main symptoms are weakening of appetite, nausea and pain in the right side of the hypochondrium, bitterness in the mouth, bloating – there is a need for immediate referral to a specialist. The complex manifestation of such symptoms most often indicates problems with the gallbladder or, directly, with the liver.

Doctors prescribe choleretic drugs that really “cleanse” the liver, but they cannot be taken on their own so as not to worsen the condition. Other complexes of drugs activate cell regeneration, reduce the effects of alcohol, fats, and other negative effects. These include a drug such as ursosan .

Protecting your liver, you can, if not completely get rid of allergies, then completely remove its symptoms, which interfere with a full life and harm your health.