Spring allergies/ How will they stop bothering us?

2025-04-26 18:23:00, Shëndeti CNA

Spring allergies affect one in three people, and experts explain that they begin to affect most people around the age of 10 or 11. Spring respiratory allergies, due to their annoying symptoms, can make us fear the sun and flowering plants .

Spring allergies/ How will they stop bothering us?

Why have they increased in recent years?

Our genetic background is largely responsible for allergies. However, due to the modern/Western lifestyle (standardized foods, use of many cleaning products, daily life in sterile environments, higher pollution levels, increased stress, etc.), they appear at younger ages and are more intense and frequent.

It is also important to understand that, since our immune system no longer needs to fight in childhood to protect us from infections, as was the case much more in the past, it inevitably overdevelops its other side, which is related to allergies.

Spring allergies/ How will they stop bothering us?

How to protect ourselves from pollen

During the spring months, especially when the weather is dry and sunny, conditions that favor the circulation of pollen and, consequently, the worsening of allergies, it is advisable to try to protect ourselves from pollen.

Therefore, since it is at its highest concentrations in the morning and at noon, it is advisable not to air the house during these hours. It is also good practice to stay indoors as much as possible during the day and, when driving, to prefer the car, but keeping the windows closed.

When we return home, it is important to shower, wash our hair, and wear clean clothes to remove allergens from ourselves.

Spring allergies/ How will they stop bothering us?

How to treat allergies

First, there is symptomatic treatment (e.g., with antihistamine pills, eye drops, bronchodilators for asthma, etc.). However, these specific medications focus on the symptoms and, thus, once their effect wears off, it is possible for them to relapse, that is, for the disease to return when the stimulus continues to be present in the environment.

In contrast to this treatment for symptom relief, experts recommend regulatory-preventive treatment, which mainly includes corticosteroids such as intranasal and inhaled corticosteroids for asthma.

Regulatory therapy is aimed at those known to suffer from allergies with the aim of combating inflammation, which is the basis of the problem, but which does not cease to exist.

A person suffering from respiratory allergies, even if they receive systematic preventive treatment, will be protected for that season, but the following year they will have to face them again. /CNA