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allergies and seizures
Fri, 06/29/2007 - 12:49Topic: Parents & Caregivers
I was wondering if anyone else has noticed a link between their child's seizure activity and allergy season. We went quading along the alphalpha feilds the other day and my son's eyes totally swelled up into jelly balls. He was so tired out and stuffed up. He had a seizure the next morning. Does anyone think that allergic reactions can lower the seizure threshold? It seems plausible to me as their system would be weakened? --mamajess
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Submitted by stephenhauer@comcast.net on Wed, 2014-10-22 - 14:32
Allergy is a 24/7/365/Lifetime Source of Chronic
Inflammation.
Is it possible, that by Neutralizing the Source of your
Enviro Allergies, You “Remove” a major Layer of Immune System Hyper-Sensitization
.. and in doing so, You Drop the System’s overall Hyper-Sensitization Level
that is Triggering ( or at the very least Exacerbating ) the Epilepsy Frequency
I read above the incidence of Allergy Shots exacerbating Epileptic
Episodes .. to me this is a Good News /
Bad News observation..
Bad News = Enhanced Episodes
Good NEWs = Allergies are definitely “At Play” ..
That with the Direct Intro of Offending Allergens via
Injection .. it is “Too Much / Too Soon ..
But “If” You build Tolerance to / Neutralize your Enviro
Allergy via a Softer / Slower Neutralization Method i.e. Sublingual
ImmunoTherapy, You may not only Neutralize your Allergy Symptoms .. but also
reduce the overall Systemic level that may be Triggering your Epilepsy.
Thoughts Welcome…
Stephen @ www.GOOyCHEWy.com
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I think you're all making the
Submitted by tldevaney on Sat, 2019-05-04 - 22:16
I think you're all making the correlation in reverse. Histamine is a neurotransmitter and also raises seizure threshold. I have bad allergy symptoms and had full panel allergy testing which revealed no allergies and have had a seizure disorder since the age of 3. I'm willing to bet, and hope to inspire research in this area that the body activates histamine in an attempt to regulate seizure activity, causing "allergy symptoms" to appear when seizure activity is present.