What is skin allergy?
Skin allergy is an allergic reaction of the immune system to external irritants like skin care products (after shave lotions, perfumes, makeup products) and insect bites. Contact dermatitis, eczema, and hives are the most common types of skin allergies. These allergies may cause redness and swelling, burning, stinging, itching, redness and allergic rashes or blisters.
Allergy care is the first step. Usually, if a person avoids allergens that cause skin allergies, he may never need any kind of treatment. But when a person comes in contact with them at work or at home, then some permanent cure is necessary. There are two broad spectrums of skin allergy treatment.
This treatment comprises of two basic groups of medicines: antihistamines and steroids.
This method has a rather holistic and natural approach to skin allergy treatment. It is based on spiritual and energetic healing of one’s self with minimal side effects. Here are some successful alternative medicine treatments for skin allergies and allergic rashes –
Acupressure as skin allergy treatment – In this ancient Chinese method of healing skin allergies, the practitioner activates two points on the patient’s hand and two on the leg with his own palm or index fingers. The pressure applied stimulates the energy paths that act upon the body’s immune system and help healing skin allergies. This method is useful for curing those suffering from detergent allergies.
Homeopathic skin allergy treatment – This variant of natural remedy and healing is based on the principle of treating the skin allergy from an inner level, deep inside the body. For example, urticaria (itchy allergic rashes) is nothing but an external expression of internal, immunological disturbance. So merely treating the external symptoms is not going to help in the long run. Hence, the homeopathic remedy treats urticaria as a whole, by treating the body-mind system from within, which helps the body's healing mechanism, enhances self-recovery capacity leading to a long-term cure. For this reason the treatment prescribed depends a lot on allergy symptoms you display and the diagnosis of your homeopathy practitioner.
Homeopathic medicine is given to a patient in small doses that stimulates the healing process. The period of allergy treatment depends on various factors such as:
Natrum Sulphuricum is one of the 20 homeopathic preparations made from herbs, vegetables, minerals and animal products to treat skin allergies.
Herbs are one of the most ancient and successful Indian cures to skin allergies. Their multivitamin, multimineral content makes the herbal remedy a multipotent natural treatment for skin allergies. A common and widely studied herbal remedy that cures nearly all skin ailments is Aloe vera. The Aloe lotion acts as a moisturizer, which has been shown to aid in allergy relief from chafed skin, allergic rashes, dry lips, sunburns, abrasions and minor skin irritations, non-poisonous insect bites and stings.
Detoxin-S, a Chinese herbal product that consists of naturally occurring substances like menthol, ginger and Licorice, acts as a natural anti-biotic to help detoxify the body toxins in allergic rashes, eczema, allergic dermatitis, and suppurative skin disease without side effects.
NAET – An acronym for Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques, NAET is a holistic, non-invasive treatment used to treat skin allergies. NAET combines Kinesiology (Muscle Responsive Testing), Chiropractic and Oriental Medicine to clear skin allergies by reprogramming the brain. The treatment begins with muscle testing for suspected skin allergen that is held in a vial in one hand, while the other arm is tested for muscle strength.
The patient doesn’t have a clue of the vial’s content, but the nerve ending in his hands sense the electro-magnetic field of the allergen and convey its presence to the brain. If the practitioner finds muscle weakness in the other hand in reply to the brain’s response to the allergen, then acupressure points on the patient’s body are stimulated while he holds the vial for 20 minutes. If the muscle strength is regained after acupressure treatment, then it means that the skin allergy has been eliminated. If it persists, then the procedure is repeated with deeper stimulation.
For more information on other types of treatment, read our article on all about allergy treatment and Complementary and Alternative Medicine for allergy relief.