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Do you understand why and how your nose could feel itching and vulnerable? The compound that causes sensitive and itching of your nose is called allergen. These include pollen, mold, dust mites, certain foods, latex, animal dander, and others. These allergens sensitize the nasal mucosal membrane through a sensitization procedure, which usually involves a couple of kinds of cell in our body, such as lymphocyte, macrophage and mast cell. In the beginning of the sensitization, allergens penetrate through the mucosal surface in our nasal passage. The ease of the irritants penetrate through the mucosal surface is because of the shortage of IgA antibodies, which main function is removing micro organisms that stick to the mucosal surface. Normally, patients, who adverse the irritant, have lower level of IgA antibodies.



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The 2nd allergen that could cause nasal allergy is pollen. Pollen is released from the tree or turf seasonally. Therefore, it is fairly hard to avoid this irritant although you keep yourself indoor in the city flat or house with the doors and window closed. People with hay fever need to not reside in the dark flat or house with window and door closed during these best months of the year. They can simply go through a brief period of systemic steroid treatment, which could enable them to live a nearly normal life throughout this brief duration of pollen period. Pollen period is in the late spring and early summer in the seasonal country but it is practically 10 months long in the non-seasonal nation. To avoid pollen outside, I think the only method is putting on purification mask or make sure you have actually taken antihistamine medicine prior to heading out. Indoor pollen could be decreased by setting up electrostatic air cleaner, HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Air) Filters, air conditioning, ionizer, humidifier and dehumidifier (negative ion generator).

Electrostatic air cleaner is likewise called as electrostatic precipitator. It consists a fan, which is used to draw the air which containing particles to go through electrical charged plate where the particle is trapped. The tiresome task for this equipment is that you have to frequently clean up the plate that traps the particles because when the particles accumulate too much on the plate, it might trigger its trapping effectiveness drops.

This equipment can eliminate most of the particulate matter in the space not just pollen but likewise consisting of germs, dust mite, molds, yeast and spores, which are also irritants to nasal allergy. When the potassium permanganate and charcoal is integrated with the HEPA filter, it can clear the big particulate matter like dust and pollen as well as chemical smell. This is because potassium permanganate is a strong oxidizing agent, which could decompose many of the dust and organic compounds; whereas, charcoal might adsorb many of the unpredictable organic compounds.



With this level, it is high enough to worsen symptoms in any individual with pollen allergy. Air conditionings cooling temperature level should not be set to too low because air that too cold can worsen respiratory allergy.

It is much better for them who have asthma or nasal allergy and other breathing allergies to breathe wet air in order that their nose and bronchial passages will not dry up. Since humidity level in these countries is really high, there is not an issue for individuals who live in equatorial and tropical country. This level may be too high and it can promote growth of home dust molds, fungus and mites and tends to bring more dust and pollen. The suitable level of humidity in your home is about 35 to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care 50 percent. With this level, individuals wonít feel uncomfortable and it also might prevent proliferation of irritant around the house. Individuals who live in the seasonal nations require a humidifier in winter season and a dehumidifier in the summertime; whereas, people who live in the non seasonal countries need a dehumidifier to reduce their house wetness level to avoid growing of molds, dust mites and fungi. Humidifier and dehumidifier have to be clean often with stiff brush.

Ionizer or negative ion generator is a device that produces unfavorable ion into the air. Particles surface area is positively charged; for that reason, when negative ion is attracted to the particles surface area, its positive charges are electrically reduced the effects of by these negative ions. Particles with reduced the effects of surface area are tend to deposit on the wall or floor. With this equipment, particles in the air can be reduced with the condition that the air in the room is not exploded by a fan. Therefore, in order to make your house without dust particles, wall, floor, furnishings and carpet need to be vacuum-cleaned often.

Prevention is among the ways to briefly relieve nasal allergy signs. However, based on expense, there are other manner ins which are less costly to treat nasal allergy without any adverse effects.

We understood that nasal allergy is triggered by the irritant; therefore, the first technique to avoid nasal allergy is eliminating the allergen in our home or room. Individuals who are allergic to house dust might not have allergy to the roadway or field dust. Allergy condition for the people who are allergic to animal dander can enhance quickly if they remove their animal from the home. Air conditionings cooling temperature level needs to not be set to too low due to the fact that air that too cold can intensify respiratory allergy.

It is better for them who have asthma or nasal allergy and other breathing allergies to breathe damp air in order that their nose and bronchial passages will not dry up.