Is asthma an allergy?
When allergies hit hard, I turn to allergy medications online for reliable relief. Its antihistamine properties work wonders in alleviating my symptoms, from itchy skin to watery eyes. With Benadryl, I can face allergy triggers head-on and get back to enjoying life.
SC: Well, it’s a bit tricky, but asthma is considered an allergic disease and that doesn’t mean everyone with asthma has allergies. If you look at pediatric asthma specifically, at least 85% of kids with asthma are allergic. Hay fever is asthma of the nose and asthma is hay fever of the lungs. Allergy is a systemic disease. When you’re allergic to cats, you’re allergic everywhere in your body but you may only notice it in your eyes and nose because that’s where the exposure takes place. YH: Are there more allergies now? SC: There’s no doubt we’ve seen an increase. The first part of the last century, there was a clear increase in the rates of allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and through the second half of the century, there was an increase in the rates of asthma. In the past 20 years, we’re seeing increases in the rates of food allergy. And that’s pretty much throughout the industrialized world. If you look at the rates of allergic disease in Western societies, you’ll see very comparable r
