Asthma Treatment: Allergy to Drugs

Naturopathy is preventive, curative and corrective therapy and also has no side-effects, of course when rules are fully adhered to. All the methods have patient compliance, are cost-effective and easy to perform. Whenever Naturopathy is tried, first of all, bowels should be cleared by purging out fecal matter from the intestines.

TAKING AN ENEMA

Take a vessel, filled with 1 to 1.5 liters of lukewarm water. Before taking to enema, properly check the nozzle and vessel. Disinfect both the vessel and nozzle and allow some water to How out of the nozzle so that no air packet disturbs water flow, as trapped air can also penetrate in the intestines along with enema water.

Only hard surface should be used while lying down on the floor but ensure that buttocks remain 2-4 inches higher than the floor level. By doing so, you can be rest assured that water will enter through rectum without any obstruction. The vessel should be hung at a height of one meter or so above your body level. Now insert the nozzle in the rectum and raise up your knees a bit so as to facilitate entry of water.

Water in the intestines should be retained till urgency to visit the toilet arises. Do not exert any pressure while defecating. It hikes some time for the water to act on the impacted fecal matter. It would be still better if cold water is used, instead of lukewarm water. When your bowels have been cleared, you may feel another urgency to empty your stomach. It is so, because adherent and tough feces take more time to soften and come out. If you repeat this practice of having an enema daily, your system will automatically and slowly get back to normalcy when your system acclimatizes with the new situations.

It may be noted that most of the maladies emanate from chronic constipation which is removed effectively by enema water. Once your stools are normal, there won’t be any indigestion, flatulence, colic, acidity, eructations, burning sensation. In addition, there are less chances of breeding of worms because worms breed in dirt and filth only.

KUNJAL KRIYA

Kunjar means elephant who first drinks plenty of water in one go and expels (vomits out) the same later on. This kriya is a part of Nature Cure and Yoga. Those, who always have their chest filled with sputum, cannot respirate comfortably, suffer from asthma, and/or other respiratory and digestive problems, should practice it.

Boil about 2-3 liters of water in a utensil and let it get down to lukewarm position. Now add some salt to it. Sit on your toes on empty stomach or you can do it even after attending to the call of nature. Drink the lukewarm water until it reaches your throat or when you develop a feeling of vomit. Now vomit out entire water from your mouth, inserting your fingers in the throat so that entire ingested quantity of water gets out.

When the water comes out, it would be either bitter or acidic or both. Sometimes it is acidic and pungent so that throat remains bitter/acidic for some time. If you feel an urgency to defecate, you should not delay because intestinal filth will be ejected through passage of stools.

After body has been fully emptied, do not eat or drink anything; except having an apple. Lunch should be had with khichri and 10-12 gms of ghee. At about 4 p.m., you should have only coffee, and bland and light diet at dinnerThere has been a real increase in the number of drug allergy case, essentially because of the increased use of a variety of drugs.

All drugs produced some reaction in the body. There are, however, some reactions which are produced only in certain are allergic in nature. Such unexpected reactions may be due to any of the following causes:

1. Overdosage.
2. Drug interactions, for example a prescription containing a tranquiliser and an antihistamine may cause excessive drowsiness.
3. Indiosyncracy, as for example, an asthmatic may get palpitation of the heart even if he takes 1/4 gm of ephedrine.
4. Side effects, as are observed in the form of drowsiness after taking antihistamines.
5. Secondary effects, such as hesitancy in passing urine, or even retention of urine, on taking ephedrine, that occurs in older people due to an already enlarged prostate.
6. Allergic reactions. When a reaction occurs after adminstration of a drug, it is necessary to know its true nature.

SYMPTOMS OF AN ALLERGIC REACTION

The first time administration of a drug may cause no adverse reaction but its repetition a few days or weeks later may cause one. Reaction may occur due to
1. administration,
2. external application, or
3. a person sensitized by external contact may suffer a reaction by later ingestion of the sensitizing substance or a related chemical.

Skin Lesions : The most common drug reaction is urticaria; others are fever, skin rashes, jaundice and hepatitis. The most servere reaction is of anayphylaxis. Asthma may also be caused.

Urticaria is caused by allergy to various drugs such as pencillin, streptomycin, aspirin, sulphonamides, barbiturates, insulin, liver extract and others. Skin tests are of little use in the diagnosis of drug for urticaria, the best course being to stop all medication and note the subsequent effects. Contact dermatitis due to drugs allergy has already been described. It may be produced by sulphonamides, antibiotics, local anaesthetics, antihistaminic drugs, and many other drugs that are applied on the skin.

Fever : Drug fever is a common complication of treatment with sulphonamides, thiouracial, para-aminosalicylic acid (PAS), arsenicals, and anticonvulsants. The onset typically occurs a week or more after the first use of the drug. The fever may reach upto 102-103°F and may be continuous or intermittent. When the offending drug is discontinued, the fever subsides as soon as it has been eliminated from the body, usually in a few days.

Drug fever may be accompanied by a skin rash. The diagnosis may be suspected if unexplained fever develops during the administration of any of the commonly causative drugs and subsides when they are discontinued.

Some drugs which take longer to be eliminated, produce reactions which cause widespread lesions in the body, such as inflammation of the arteries, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and lymph glands; the continued use of such drugs can lead to fatal consequences.

Blood Destruction : Destruction of the blood cells may occur as a result of allergic drug reaction. This may result from the use of aminopyrine, arsenicals, thiouracil, sulphonanmides, cold and anticonvulsive drugs. Except for gold and arsenic, these drugs are rather quickly eliminated from the body and the tendency is to recover within a week of the drug being discontinued.

ALLERGY TO VACCINES

Various vaccines cause allergic reactions in sensitive people. They also cause some non-allergic reactions and it is essential that a proper differentiation be made between them. Non-allergic reactions include local inflammatory reactions and systemic reactions such as fever, malaise, nausea and vomiting. Allergic reactions may pertain to the skin. The respiratory system, the nervous system, or the reactions may be anaphylactic in nature.

The whooping cough vaccine or the triple vaccine can occasionally cause purpuric rash, fever or shock. Tetanus toxoid has been known to cause urticaria, joint pains or even anaphylactic reactions in patients sensitive to eggs. Antirabic vaccine, in which the virus has been grown on the neurological tissue, is known to cause neurological reactions in some individuals. Urticarial rash and increasingly severe local reactions at the injected sites provides indications of impending reaction.

The patient allergic to aspirin, which chemically is acetylsalicylic acid, is also sensitive to foods which naturally contain salicylates. There are apricots, berries, currants, grapes, peaches, plums, tomatoes, cucumbers. These foods should be avoided by those who are allergic to aspirin.

DIAGNOSIS

The single and most important factor in the diagnosis of a drug reaction is the awareness of the doctor, that the symptoms may be due to allergic drug reaction. Discontinuation of the drug leading to a cessation of symptoms confirms the diagnosis. Some drugs take longer to be eliminated from the body, hence the symptoms of a drug’s reaction may continue for a few days after its cessation. Skin tests with drugs are not a reliable guide, and sometimes prove dangerous as well.

PRECAUTIONS

Symptoms such as fever, general malaise, restlessness or drowsiness, nausea, headache, transient numbness, generalized rashes, oedema, or unusual respiratory symptoms, especially coughing or wheezing are warning symptoms.

Vaccines made of egg as medium, or serum injections made from non-human resoruces, for example horses, must be given with care, and should be avoided where allergic reactions to them have been noted before. If tetanus toxoid immunziation has been given within five years, do not give ATS, but give a booster dose of 0.5 ml of tetanus toxid.

The amount and the duration of drug dosage are important. Repeated intermittent administration is more hazardous than continuous. The route of administration often effects the sensitizing index of the drug. The oral method is least likely to cause sensitization, the injection next, and an application to the skin or mucous membranes the most likely. time. Care should be taken that no cold drink and food is taken, at least for 24 hours.

The whole process, as detailed above, can be repeated as when the said disorders are felt. Let there be no exposure of your abdominal portion which should be kept fully wrapped, avoiding fan or/and cold in any form. Frequent repetition of this process (Kunjal Kriya) is not advised.

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