ALLERGIES: A NEW LOOK AT THEIR NATURE AND TREATMENT
By Prof. Roch Domerego
President of the European Company of Apitherapy, Apimondia
Vice President of Apitherapy Commission of Apimondia
Definition: Allergy is an exaggerated immunological response linked to the production of immunoglobine E (IgE). Atopy is the genetic disposition towards developing allergic reactions.
Quite often, the emotional attitude brings about an inverse proposition. Pollen from grasses, cat hair, or even dust are deemed to be the aggressors, that is, the causes or the culprits, as if these substances bore responsibility for the allergic reactions. Neither pollen nor cat hair nor dust is the guilty party.
Of course, pollution plays a role just as heredity does. Above all the dynamics of our behavior regarding our food choices and our emotional attitudes towards stressing agents are the factors that cause our dis-regulation, i.e. our allergic responses.
Certain scientific researchers ask: could it be that the excessive development of hygienic principles, the concerns about protection against the environment (some children are forbidden to touch dirt) might be important worsening factors? As a matter of fact, a large increase in the frequency of allergies is often observed among the more affluent public and in northern countries. These observations suggest that in the absence of real aggressors, the immune system zealously identifies as aggressive, substances that in themselves are not.
Once this process has started, it is not always easy to re-educate the immune system. Different types of “treatment” can be considered depending on the intensity of the allergic reaction. One currently uses anti-histamines, cortico-steroids, bronchial dilating agents, and adrenaline.
If indeed these agents are necessary in urgent cases, they should not have the right to be called treatments, as they are emergency measure, insufficient but necessary. The real treatment that will lead to a re-education of our defensive measures, a desensitization, do follow a very different path. This process goes through auto-vaccination, desensitization, changes in nutrition, even acupuncture and osteopathy. Some cases require a rethinking of the psychological attitude and mind.
Hive products fit perfectly in this school of medicine and therapy that respect man and life. Most of the time allergic reactions are provoked by airborne pollens; they are considered to be allergizing. On the other hand, pollens collected by bees or by other insects, are hypo-allergizing. With a very progressive and well directed therapy one can, in two or three seasons, desensitize a person suffering from allergic rhinitis or, even in certain cases, allergic asthma. Many publications from different universities have confirmed these protocols. This desensitization process needs cofactors and even if the person uses some emergency measures at the beginning, the real treatment will include auto-vaccination with pollen and bee venom extracts.
