Your Ventura Chiropractor knows that allergies can make our everyday life a misery. A walk in the park, a play date with Kitty, a shellfish stew, or even something as small as a nut can generate such unwelcome symptoms as itchy eyes, a runny nose, sneezing, or a skin rash.
To make things worse, for some individuals, and perhaps you’re one of them allergic reactions can go from just plain irritating to dangerous and life-threatening as the air passageway begins to close and breathing becomes labored. This increased intensity of symptoms can frequently cause a state of panic.
In fact, if you are one of the many individuals who have allergies, it may even seem to you that, from time to time, your environment is a very unfriendly place and that the world around you is, truly, out to get you!
Why does your body react, or rather overreact, to the environment with such severity while other individuals seem unaffected? It’s a valid question. The answer is because some individuals, like you, have a hyperactive immune system that actually “freaks out” when you are confronted with common substances such as pollen, dander, shellfish, or nuts.
Can your Ventura Chiropractor help with your allergy symptoms? You may be surprised by the answer. Quite a few people have noticed that they experience relief from their allergy symptoms after chiropractic treatment, even though chiropractic care doesn’t actually treat allergies.
This relief comes about because chiropractic adjustments affect the complete nervous system, including the autoimmune system. When there’s a disturbance in the nervous system, in addition to other problems, the autoimmune system, whose task it is to help you to adapt and respond appropriately to your environment, can become under-active or overactive. The impairment is the latter (overactive) when it comes to your allergies.
Because chiropractic manipulations reduce or take away disturbances in the nervous system and bring the body back into balance and harmony, the adjustments provide that same homeostasis to the auto-immune system as well. A vital immune system reacts appropriately to so-called allergens in the environment.
So, as explained above, your chiropractor doesn’t directly treat allergies. You could say, instead, that relief from your allergies is merely a part of a well-adjusted nervous system. Make an appointment, today, to see your Ventura Chiropractor and get back into harmony with your environment.