Conventional Approach to Heal Allergies

Conventional Allergy treatment is the most common type of medical treatment for allergy patients. Most allergists treat patients by using the conventional medical knowledge.

So here is the brief history of conventional view of Allergy, it took a lot of reading for me to know this :-)

1. When doctors gave immunization shots to patients in the early 1900, some patients died. They knew something was going on. They knew those deaths were not caused by toxic reaction. They suspected some kind of reaction was going on in the patients' body when the shots were given.

This "unknown" reaction needed a name, so they decided to call it allergen, from Greek's allos (other) ergon (work). In the beginning, the scientists blamed immune system for creating allergy reactions.

2. Then, there came a British Scientist named Sir Henry Dale. He discovered histamine, the chemical that causes runny nose and itchy eyes. Histamine was then researched until antihistamine was created, with the hope that antihistamine could help stopping histamine.

3. Then, the biggest breakthrough of allergy history. A Japanese couple researchers discovered Immunoglobin E or IgE. IgE is responsible for many allergic reactions. People with allergies have 10 times as much of it in their bloodstream as people who are not affected by allergies.

When IgE comes in contact with an allergen(foreign substance), it triggers the release of histamine , prostaglandins and leukotriences. The books I am reading now says that these chemicals are responsible for allergies not allergens.

So now, allergy and IgE are inseparable. Allergy, from a conventional allergist view, is basically an reaction that involves IgE.