How Does Chiropractic Help Allergies?
If you have allergies, then you may be like many other people desperately searching for a solution. Allergies can certainly hold you back from your everyday life and can even cause problems with fatigue. Did you know that going to a chiropractor can help you with your allergies? Well, they can, and below you can find out how that works.
How Do Allergies Work?
You may or may not know how allergies work, but to better understand how a chiropractor can help, you must fully understand what is going on in your body first. There are a number of things that happen when your body has an allergic response to something.
Why Does Your Body Have an Allergic Reaction?
Your body is trying to protect you. Our bodies naturally try to remove or reject anything that may be harmful to us. When you sneeze or cough, your body is to push out substances that are harmful.
When you have a stomach bug, you may vomit. When you have an infection, you will have inflammation. These are all ways that your body tries to get rid of harmful substances.
Why Isn’t Everyone Allergic to What I Am?
When your body has an allergic reaction, it is doing any number of the things listed above. For, the most part, your body is overreacting when having an allergic reaction. For whatever reason, your body will act as a protector against things that are not harmful. This is an allergic reaction.
People are not allergic to the same things because the thing you are allergic to is not the issue. It is really your body’s response to it. Pollen, dog hair, and things like that are not truly harmful to the body.
What Are Histamines?
Histamines are chemicals that are released by cells inside your body. They are there to protect you. When your body thinks a harmful substance has come to attack it, it will release histamines. When you take an antihistamine, it acts to calm those things down. Histamines will cause mucus, swelling, itching and many other symptoms when released in great amounts.
You can read more information about histamines at MindBodyGreen.
Stress Can Be a Factor
If you are under a lot of stress, this may be the cause of some of your allergies. This is because the body’s immune system can become a bit hypersensitive. Some people are naturally born with allergies and there is no known scientific evidence to pinpoint what actually causes them.
Allergies Have a Lot To Do with Your Nervous System
Your allergies are coming from your nervous system. This is the control center for the histamines. Did you know that going to a chiropractor can help adjust your nervous system? When you go to the chiropractor they are realigning your spine. According to Westside Chiropractic, which provides allergy relief in Portland, when your spine is slightly out of alignment, you can have irritation of the nervous system. By relieving that, you are greatly reducing your body’s response to allergens.
Your body sends signals all over the place. When your spine is out of alignment it can cause irritation down it. Your body will then have a signal sent to the nervous system. The nervous system then can get a bit sensitive causing your body to react to certain allergens more than usual. A simple realignment can fix this problem.
Don’t Wait for Your Nervous System to Attack
By going to the chiropractor on a regular basis, you are preventing your nervous system from overreacting and being hypersensitive. People who go to a chiropractor on a regular basis have seen a tremendous change in their allergies. By going you are preventing any pressure on your spine that can result in your body being hypersensitive.
Is It Worth the Time?
By going to the chiropractor and reducing the amount of hypersensitivity your body may have when irritation occurs, you are reducing that hypersensitivity in your nervous system. You can help your medicine be more effective or even be able to stop taking it all together if your doctor says it is okay. It will save you time and money in the long run. Plus, you will feel tremendously better.
You can find more information on allergies and chiropractic treatment at the Ask Palmer blog.
Hopefully, this information can help you get your allergies in check. No one likes feeling unwell. Who knew that a chiropractor could help? If you are interested, you can check out this YouTube video for more information.
