When To Suspect You Suffer From Allergy

Almost all allergy sufferers have gone through an unpleasant diagnosis process, which took from a couple of months to even several years. Allergy is a smart disease: it can be easily taken from a cold or a flu, and sometimes it can give such unexpected reactions that it amazes even the most experienced doctors.

This is a series of symptoms which should trigger an alarm bell for you and determine you to ask for some allergy testing:

• Eyes running or going red and irritated for no reason
• Nose running for no reason
• Skin irritations or hives which occur repeatedly
• Swelling of different parts of your body (like limbs or face)
• Annoying sneezing reprises occurring often
• Dry cough which persists for more than a week
• Suffocation sensation
  
• Frequent colds: this signals a deficient immune system, which can be an open gate for allergies and other diseases
  

Although some of these symptoms are only creating a slight discomfort in your daily life, you should treat them seriously and get some tests done.

Allergy is very tricky: the more you expose yourself to the substance triggering an allergic reaction, the more your diseases worsens. Taking OTC medication to alleviate the symptoms would only result in giving allergy the time to grow even stronger, and in time, your symptoms will become bigger and bigger, until your life will turn into a nightmare of sneezing, itching, swelling and choking. In situations like food or drug allergies, these may become life threatening, due to the swelling of internal organs.