In today's world, the number of children who develop an allergy increases year by year.
Moreover, the largest number of sick children are in large cities and developed countries.
Why does this happen? What is the main fault? Maybe poisoned air and food, or maybe a bad ecology? No!
It turns out that everything is much more complicated. After all, the allergy affects those children who live in well-off families, eat expensive foods and do not face the dangerous and harmful influence of the surrounding society. What is the main cause of childhood diseases?
Quite often you can hear how a doctor advises a pregnant woman before giving birth to a child to get rid of all four-legged household members. This is explained by the fact that cats and dogs carry dangerous infections.
Is this true? Is the dog safe for a newborn baby?
Everyone has long been accustomed to believe that sterility and the absence of pathogenic substances have a beneficial effect on the health of the baby. But everything is explained simply: a newborn baby is reliably protected by his immune system.
Nature does not know in advance which environment the child will grow in: contaminated or sterile. The immunity of the baby is ready to protect against any external aggressive factors .The physiology of the child did not provide for the cleanliness and sterility of the children's bath and clothes, the temperature of warm, heated water and the structure of disposable diapers.
On the contrary, in the fight against these conditions of "comfort" the immune system also loses its pristine feature - to protect the baby. The lost immune program begins to struggle with its new enemy - a sense of comfort. Hence the allergy to dogs in children.
Symptoms of dog allergy in children
The main symptoms of this type of allergy are very similar to an allergic reaction caused by another stimulus.
The main symptoms of the disease include:
- Quincke edema;
- disorder of the digestive tract, diarrhea, vomiting;
- an inflammatory reaction at the site of a bite, a scratch or saliva of the animal;
- atopic dermatitis, dermatosis;
- eczema, itching, peeling;
- urticaria, skin rashes;
- bronchial asthma, bronchitis, asthma;
- shortness of breath, dry cough, shortness of breath;
- redness of the eyes, conjunctivitis, lacrimation;
- persistent runny nose and sneezing;
- nasal congestion, allergic rhinitis.
Treatment of allergy to dogs in children
If you have a suspicion of allergy, then you should to confirm the diagnosis to undergo an examination in the allergic center. It is possible that your child is sick, due to the controversy of mold and pollen brought by the dog from the street.
To get the final confirmation of the diagnosis of "allergy to dogs", you should live in another room for a month, where there is no access for animals. If during this time the child has lost all the symptoms of an allergy, then consider that you have found the source of the disease.
