• Question: What causes allergies and why are some so vicious such as mine to a medicine where I kept fainting, having fits, not able to breath and being very confused? @Ali, Alex,Theo Kerry and Phil

    Asked by gigglegirl9 to Theo, Philip, Kerry, Ali, Alex on 14 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Kerry O'Shea

      Kerry O'Shea answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      I’m sorry to hear that you have such extreme allergies. I’m not an expert in this field by any means so I’m not going to be able to answer your question in much detail. Allergies are caused by your immune system (your body’s defence system) being very sensitive to a particular substance in the environment. The way in which the body is affected can be quite drastic, for example with peanut allergies. Treatments such as steroids can modift your immune system to cope better to certain types of allergies.

    • Photo: Philip Ratcliffe

      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      well, basically and allergy is a problem with our immune system that thinks it’s being attacked by some outside agent, like pollen, dust or, like you, to medicines (penicillin is a famous one). And so it fights back, but unfortunately ends up fighting against our own bodies too.
      Once you understand what special things upset you then you can do something about avoiding them and also taking special medicines to avoid your bad reaction.

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