Stress, anxiety can make allergies worse

A recent study has shown that a person who often has stressful, anxious expressions can also make allergies worse.

In addition, people who are stressed and anxious can make allergies last longer and worse. More than three decades of research on stress and immunity, allergies can be considered the fifth most chronic disease in the United States, and cost up to $ 3.3 billion in treatments each year.

In a report on August 14, 2008 at the annual meeting of the Psychological Association in Boston, researchers at Ohio State University described recent experiments to show strain. How does psychological straightness affect people with allergies?

Jan Kiecolt-Glaser, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Ohio State University, explains ' allergies should not be taken lightly. There have been many people suffering from the disease. If the fever in the hot season does not affect lives, but people with allergies are often accompanied by asthma, asthma can lead to death if not prevented in time '. Some data show that about 38% of people with rhinitis allergies have asthma, asthma, and 78% of asthma, asthma with rhinitis allergies.

Kiecolt-Glaser along with his colleague Ronald Glaser, professor of molecular virology, immunology and genetics at Ohio State University of Pharmacy, conducted a study with 28 male and female members. All volunteers have a history of fever and allergies to weather. They all spent two and a half days at the Ohio State University pharmacy center. Every day, they have to go through several tests to compare blood, bug and serum samples taken before, after and during the test. Participants must answer psychological questions to check stress, anxiety, and self-control with situations.

Ronald Glaser, the director of the university's research center, said that he had taken samples of the cells from the study participants and then measured the level of cytokines such as interleukin-6 (IL-6) by the cell. cells produced. Lymphocytes derived from volunteers showed a rapid increase in cytokines such as interleukin-6 (IL-6). Too high interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels are part of the allergy. The researchers also tested the level of hormones that cause stress called catecholamines and examined when they were most excited.

It is estimated that every year, Americans spend $ 2.3 billion on medicines and 1.1 billion on doctors. That is not to mention the 3.5 million labor wages they have to ignore.

The results of this study help general practitioners and patients to work together to find ways to fight anxiety that leads to allergic reactions to the nose, chest, skin and other organs. Those types of allergies you think will be poisoned in a few minutes or a few hours but it can actually recur at a time when we don't expect it. Some people with allergies are anxious and nervous. That means learning is putting yourself in a more difficult situation.