Allergies The Silent Disease
By The Source, Thu Dec 8th

Allergies affect approximately 60 million Americans, which meansone in every five adults or children suffer from them, and arecommon in men as well as in women. Thirty-five million peoplehave upper respiratory symptoms, which are allergic reactions toairborne pollen. Around 10 million Americans have allergies tocats and two million present severe reactions to various insectstings.

Food allergies are less common in the family of allergies. Aboutone out of three people pretend to have a food and onlyabout three to eight percent of children younger than threeyears old, and only one percent of adults really have anallergic reactions to food. Unfortunately, food allergies areblamed for close to 200 deaths every year. Scientists say thatallergies have to do with genetics. If one parent has allergies,there are 33% chances that each child will suffer from a form ofallergy. If both parents are allergic, it is very much possible(seven cases out of

10) that their children will be allergic,too. If we are to discuss about allergies, we should have inview the fact that allergies usually stay with adults, whilechildren sometimes outgrow them.

An is in fact the response of your body to somethingthat it perceives as a threat. Your body fights the allergen inthe same way it would fight a virus or a bacterial infection. Wecan take as an example the pollens of some plants that are smalland light and can be taken away by the winds for miles. Ragweedpollen has been found 400 miles out at sea and two miles up inthe atmosphere.

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