To confuse Allergy symptoms with symptoms of acute respiratory viral diseases is very simple.
It turns out that people thinking they have a virus, could seriously be wrong. And only a doctor is able to identify the correct symptoms of SARS, and to distinguish them from symptoms of allergic reactions to household dust. To determine what kind of disease you caught, own up to advice the therapist to be able to discern the signs:
1. Temperature. If you are allergic to something, usually a person has not observed increase in body temperature and it stays at around 36.6 degrees Celsius.
2. Pain in the body and muscles more common for colds and viral diseases, so manifest themselves of the infection, causing discomfort and breaking bones, hitting in the human body.
3. Runny nose. Rhinitis is a common symptom of Allergy to dust and SARS, so it is important to pay attention to how much time it lasts. For respiratory diseases rhinitis is held for 5-7 days, if you wash the nose and bury it with special solutions. But if a person is allergic, rhinitis will accompany him until, until you find and eliminate the allergen causing a similar reaction. In this case nose drops don’t help.
4. Physical condition when SARS all day can deliver a patient’s discomfort, if he is allergic, he will feel bad only at night and in the morning.
5. Laryngitis and suppurative inflammation in the throat. This symptom is most common in SARS. But if it is just swelling of the throat and the person feels shortness of breath, not pain during swallowing, is the cause of the allergen floating in the air.
To treat respiratory diseases, like allergies, should be under medical supervision. Moreover, the medications can help to cure this or that disease, have a different focus. For example, the means for elimination of runny nose with SARS will not be able to cope with allergic rhinitis and Vice versa.
Following from the information given above, we conclude that it is not necessary to self-medicate at home and as soon as you have symptoms of Allergy to dust or mold or symptoms of viral illness, you should immediately go to the doctor. Only in the case of allergies to wear a respiratory mask on the face is optional, yet advisable, because you have to protect your body from falling into a new allergenic substances from the air.
