How asthma can arise from hay fever
Preventing the progression of allergies
Where there is hay fever, asthma can follow and it can be very dangerous. For decades doctors have warned that untreated allergic rhinitis can lead to asthma. This is because the allergy seems to spread from the upper respiratory tract to the lower respiratory tract - the bronchi. The treatment of asthma and the use of specific immunotherapy are both expensive.
The theories of conventional medicine
Conventional medicine has several theories. One theory is that untreated hay fever results in the nasal passages being blocked causing the patient to breathe through the mouth. The pollen is then deposited not in the nasal mucosa but directly in the bronchi and the lungs, causing asthma to develop. Another theory suggests that inflammation may play a role and another suggests that there may be lung changes associated with allergic rhinitis. Yet another theory states that there could be an altered immune response or possibly a change in the form of the allergen.
How conventional medicine wants to prevent the increase in allergies
Conventional medicine offers treatment using SIT (specific immunotherapy). The patient is subjected to increasing doses of the allergen over 3 - 4 years. Originally the allergens were injected once a week under the skin but these days the allergen is administered daily in the form of a tablet.
The disadvantages of specific immunotherapy
Specific immunotherapy is generally only useful with pollen allergies and perennial allergic rhinitis. Unfortunately, it is not effective for all pollen allergy sufferers and, in the cases where there is a positive benefit, the allergy usually returns within 2 years of treatment. Also, if the allergen is inadvertently injected into the bloodstream, fatality may occur.
The scientific theories of body-network.com
We know when an allergy occurs the tight junctions have been opened or destroyed. People with a pollen allergy who continue to ingest killer enzymes outside the pollen season, for example by absorption through food or fruit juices in the body, will have tight junctions that remain open. We currently do not know how the killer enzymes, or a secondary process, keep the tight junctions open. We know this process has a delay of 5 days and that the tight junctions close again on the 6th day, but not why this happens. We know the effect, but as yet no scientific institute has investigated it and without scientific investigation we do not wish to create a theory which may be inaccurate.
Specific Immunotherapy is not useful
If someone has a pollen allergy, then he has opened or destroyed tight junctions. Specific immunotherapy attempts to accustom the body to fighting the injected allergen using the non-specific immune defence system, but the T-cells in the non-specific immune system are forgetful so the allergy returns. It makes little sense to create a disease from the lifestyle of modern civilisation and then attempt to treat it for years using a non-specific approach.
An alternative therapy proposal from body-network.com
Pollen allergy sufferers need to find the cause of their open tight junctions. For many, the 5 day rule applies. In some cases a 21 day rule has also been observed. This means that killer enzymes in the food have not merely opened, but destroyed the tight junctions which then need 21 days to repair. By following the practical guide in the book "Allergies - The Real Causes" there will be two benefits - pollen allergies will disappear and the risk of progression to lower respiratory allergies, ie. asthma, will be removed.
