Today, allergy is almost the most common disease. If this problem is not directly with you, you must have seen how someone from loved ones suffers from a cold, sneezing and constant lacrimation. As practice shows, most often the allergy to ambrosia is diagnosed - an ailment, from which not any medicine helps. Knowing the methods already tried, to save yourself and loved ones from the unpleasant symptoms of the disease will be much easier.
How do you know if you need a medicine for allergy to ragweed?
Ambrosia is a weed that occurs in almost all regions. For most of the summer, the plant does not pose a health hazard. The most terrible begins in the period of flowering, when it throws out panicles covered with pollen. It is the latter that is a very strong stimulus, which, in addition to everything else, is easily transmitted by the currents of the wind.
As soon as the pollen gets on the skin or mucous, many people experience sensitization. During repeated contact with the stimulus, immunity intensively begins to produce antibodies, immunoglobulin E and mast cells are formed. All this, taken together, leads to allergic bouts.
To understand that you need a medicine for allergies to ragweed, you can if you see such symptoms:
- lacrimation;
- seizures of bronchial asthma ;
- redness of the eyes;
- itching;
- coryza;
- rhinorrhea;
- nasal congestion;
- dry cough;
- frequent headaches;
- sudden changes in mood;
- stuffiness in the ears.
What medicines should I take for allergy to ragweed?
Despite the fact that some skeptical experts are sure that the treatment of allergy to ragweed is a vain work, the patients do not give up. To be frank, curing such a disease as an allergy is really difficult, but it is still possible to alleviate the condition and eliminate some of its symptoms with the help of medications.
Of course, antihistamines are considered to be the best medicines for ragweed allergy. Most of them relieve allergy symptoms within a few minutes after ingestion.
Depending on how long they were developed, all medicines can be divided into several generations:
1. The most famous and effective allergy medicines for first-generation ragweed are:
- Diazoline;
- Fenkarol;
- Diphenhydramine;
- Pilpofen;
- Suprastin.
In addition to the fact that these medicines stop allergic attacks, they have a powerful antispasmodic effect.
2. A more advanced second generation of antihistamines are absorbed very quickly by the body and last for a long time. The drugs do not penetrate through the blood-brain barrier. Among the representatives:
- Loratadine;
- Astemizole;
- Fenistila;
- Terfenadine.
The main disadvantage of the representatives of the group is that they can negatively affect the heart.
3. The newest medicines for allergy to ragweed are representatives of the third generation:
- Telfast;
- Desloratadine ;
- Levocetirizine.
Cessation with an intrusive rhinitis is helped by vasoconstrictive or hormonal nasal drops:
- Eucazoline;
- Nock Spray;
- Nasol;
- Rinochenenyl;
- Beklazone;
- Alcedin.
When pronounced lachrymation from allergies to ambrosia, drugs in the form of eye drops help effectively:
- Ketotifen;
- Optivar;
- Patanol;
- The zaditor.
Effective drugs from allergies to ragweed pollens are given in injections. The essence of this treatment is simple enough: in accordance with a specific scheme, the patient is injected with an allergen. The dosage of the injection is small, so it does not harm the body, but to develop immunity and resistance to this or that irritant procedure helps.