What Havoc Hay Fever in the Body?

What Havoc Hay Fever in the Body? - Anyone who suffers from hay fever complains usually not only runny nose and swollen eyes. Find out what the allergy everything havoc with our bodies.

At first glance, the pollens are so inconspicuous that it seems almost ridiculous to be afraid of it. Unfortunately, the immune system sees the sometimes somewhat different. In allergic individuals, it attacks them as if they were public enemy number one. 

It pours out vast amounts of histamine. The tissue hormone to fight the intruders actually makes in his overdose but for the typical allergic reactions. And suffer from year to year more and more people. Burning eyes and a runny nose is not the only thing you then have to fight if possible.

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"I sleep poorly at night"

If the pollen flying, get a lot of allergies at night not sleep a wink. There are two reasons. The first is mechanical in nature: With a blocked nose breathing is just generally more difficult, the body has to work harder to get oxygen, and it has therefore not so easy to come to rest. 

Secondly, there is a biochemical problem. Because the allergic reaction also boosts production of messengers that trigger inflammation. The so-called Th2 cytokines did the annoying side effect that they make it difficult to sleep.

"I am always so bad it’

Sad but true: He who has a strong pollen allergy, is often unhappy. Scientists of the two universities in Innsbruck and Pavia have shown that allergy sufferers during the pollen season less of the feel-good neurotransmitter serotonin in the blood had as in winter. In addition to physical discomfort, the allergy suggests also down on the psyche. "Hay fever is a very common disease that also brings behavioral changes with it," said one of the authors, Professor Diet mar Fuchs. 

He thus confirmed results of US scientists from the University of Maryland, who found the same effect even in depressed people, the more pollen were traveling, were more depressed subjects. Because of continuous sneezing and constant insomnia suffers not only of allergies but also their quality of life - and that has an impact on the mood.

"I feel totally sick"

It does not always have to be the flu if you feel struck. Even hay fever may trigger a massive malaise. "With about 10 to 20 percent of patients that is the case. They have a mud pear and feel worn," says allergist Dr. Jorge Kleine-Tebbe from Berlin Allergy and Asthma Center West end. 

"The English expression 'Hay Fever' for hay fever is far very apt." Why some are spared, is easily explained: "Everyone reacts slightly differently to the complex mixture of chemical messengers that pours out of the body in allergy." There are, after all, even people who are just a bit shorter occur with the flu, while others for a week stay in bed with the same virus.