Pollen allergy patients asked to take preventive measures An
official of Allergy Centre, National Institute of Health (NIH)
on Thursday said that as pollen count is high in the federal
capital, the allergy patients should immediately take
precautionary measures. He said when some allergy producing
particles enters the nose and comes in contact with the internal
lining of the nose than as a reaction their is swelling and
inflammation in the nose and the patient suffers from symptoms
like sneezing, nasal itching, watery nasal dripping, watering of
eyes and mild sore throat. He said the different types of
substances producing allergy are pollen grains of flowers, dust
particles, house dust mite, outdoor and indoor molds or fungus,
insect venom of bee, animal dander like sloughed off skin,
saliva and excreta of dog or cat secretions and excretions of
birds, body parts and excreta of insects like cockroach, foods
like milk, egg, fish, prawns, beef, mutton, chicken, peanuts,
and some drugs like penicillin, sulfa dr