What foods to eat to treat allergies

First of all, it must be made clear that there is currently no ordinary food that can directly treat allergies. The various "anti-allergy foods" spread on the Internet can only help regulate immunity at best, and have no therapeutic effect at all. If you are really allergic, don't rely on ordinary food to deal with it. It is important to seek medical treatment in time.

I worked as a patient follow-up volunteer in the allergy department for half a year, and I saw too many people who relied on dietary supplements to delay things. There was a girl who suffered from allergic rhinitis all year round. I heard from a blogger that drinking freshly squeezed celery juice and honey every day could cure it. After drinking it for two months, she still sneezed when she should. Instead, the pollen residue in the honey induced allergic conjunctivitis. When she came, her eyes were swollen with only a slit left. She said she would have known better if she had known better. As for the claims on the Internet that eating enoki mushrooms and grape seeds can fight allergies, there is currently no large-scale clinical data to support them. At most, they are just effective for some people. They are individual differences and cannot be generalized.

Of course, this does not mean that diet and allergies have nothing to do with each other. Some studies in the academic community have indeed pointed out that long-term consumption of foods such as blueberries and cherries rich in flavonoids, salmon and sardines containing Omega-3, and fermented yogurt without additives may help stabilize the state of immune cells and reduce the frequency of allergic attacks. However, this conclusion is still unclear. This is not a sure thing. Another controlled trial shows that this kind of regulatory effect is only effective for a small number of people with allergies caused by acquired immunity disorders. For people with congenital hereditary allergies, there is almost no effect. If people who are allergic to deep-sea fish and dairy products eat it, it will directly trigger allergic reactions, which is completely counter-productive.

Speaking of this, someone will definitely ask, so when I have allergies, the doctor also tells me to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables? In fact, the doctor tells you to avoid foods high in sugar, oil and irritation to reduce inflammatory reactions. It does not mean that these fruits and vegetables can cure diseases. For example, vitamin C, which is said to be anti-allergic, has to reach a medicinal dose to be effective. If you really need to eat oranges to make up for it, you have to eat ten pounds at a time, not to mention whether you can finish it. Eating so much sugar will increase the inflammation burden on the body, and the allergy will be cured more slowly.

At present, the only way to achieve anti-allergy treatment through oral administration is oral desensitization treatment, which uses standardized allergen extracts prepared by doctors. For example, patients who are allergic to dust mites and mugwort should gradually start taking the corresponding allergen preparations in small doses to slowly allow the immune system to adapt and no longer have an overreaction to the allergens. However, this is a serious clinical treatment method and has nothing to do with ordinary food. If you desensitize yourself by eating so-called "allergen foods" at home, it may induce anaphylactic shock, which is particularly risky.

If you really have an allergy attack, and you have wheezes on your body, your nose is blocked, you can't breathe, or you even can't breathe, don't think about chewing something to save the emergency. Give priority to taking the antihistamine prescribed by the doctor. If something goes wrong, go to the emergency room. In your daily diet, just avoid foods that you are clearly allergic to, and have a balanced mix of meat and vegetables, which is more reliable than any sky-high-priced "anti-allergy dietary prescription".