[hr]Every day, millions of people who suffer from a wide variety of conditions, including allergies, have benefited from chiropractic care. Is chiropractic a treatment for allergies? No. The reason why people experience decreased symptoms while under chiropractic care is because chiropractic is a method of health care that permits your body to function at its best. That is especially important if you suffer from allergies.
What causes allergies?
The reality is…no one knows for sure. But according to some authors childhood vaccinations are suspect. As writer Walene James has stated: “Vaccination lays the foundation for autoimmune diseases and other disorders of the immune system such as rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic fever, lupus erythematosus, scleroderma…. It is reasonable to assume that our contemporary ‘epidemic' of allergies has at least some of its roots in the practice of vaccination.” Medically, it's widely accepted that allergies are the result of the immune system's “mistaken” response to a harmless substance. In some people, the immune system cannot distinguishing between good and bad substances. And like a nervous rookie, it sees danger everywhere and overreacts. A hyperreactive immune system pulls out all the stops for substances that won't do you any actual harm, such as dust, pollen, and animal dander. These innocuous substances are called allergens.
What are the symptoms of allergies?
When the body comes into contact with something harmful (an allergen), cells begin to release massive amounts of histamine. Histamine is one of the biggest players in the allergic response system and causes many of the reactions, such as runny nose, sneezing, and itchy and watery eyes and in some cases headache.
What are common treatments for allergies?
Modern medicine has no cure for allergies, only treatment, and, according to Robert Mendelsohn, M.D., “You can depend on most doctors to largely ignore the cause … unfortunately, their treatment is often worse than the disease, especially since the relatively safe folk-measures of yesteryear have been replaced by the sophisticated, dangerous drugs of modern medicine.”
Since runny eyes, irritation, redness, fullness in the sinuses and other allergy symptoms are caused by histamines, antihistamines are often prescribed to dry mucus membranes. However, antihistamines can cause serious heart problems and should not be used with alcohol, sedatives or tranquilizers. More recently Canadian researcher Lorne Brandes, in an article published in the May 1994 journal of the National Cancer institute, has produced research showing that certain antihistamines (Claritin'”, Hismanal” and AtaraXT”) make cancerous tumors grow faster in lab rodents.
Chiropractic is a safe alternative to treating allergies. By releasing stress on the nervous system, chiropractic permits the immune system to function more effectively-something all allergy sufferers need. A nervous system without stress functions more efficiently. Recent understandings in psychoneuroimmunology reveal that when the nervous system functions better the immune system benefits. Chiropractors correct a basic cause of body malfunction to improve the function of your immune system.
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