How Can Chiropractic Help With My Allergies?
Millions of people suffering from a wide variety of conditions, allergies
included, have benefited from chiropractic care even though chiropractic is
not an allergy treatment. Why? Because chiropractic is a method of health
care that permits your body to function at its best. That is especially important
if you suffer from allergies.
Your immune system is what recognizes and destroys anything that is not suppose
to be in you: bacteria, viruses, pollutants, dust, pollen, drugs, tumors,
dead pieces of your own cells, etc. A healthy immune system means having a
higher resistance to disease and infection and being better able to deal with
stress, and greater health and wellbeing. Your immune system is influenced
by your nerves, hormones, by your diet and by emotional stress. If it is unhealthy,
it may fail to recognize and remove abnormal cells; it may not overcome infection;
it may overreact to foreign substances, become depressed or even attack itself!
With allergies, what occurs is that the immune system overreacts to an allergen (dust, pollen, milk, dog or cat dander, strawberries, etc.) and produces too many neutralizing chemicals (especially histamines) to counteract it.
By releasing stress on the nervous system, chiropractic permits the immune
system to function more effectively…something all allergy sufferers need.
A healthy nervous system helps the immune system.
Through chiropractic, a healthy body is capable of neutralizing the above-mentioned
toxic substances. A body that has malfunctioning defense mechanisms cannot.
The emphasis on allergies must be on building a healthy body, not on trying
to use evasive tactics, like puffers, needles or drugs to eliminate all of
the allergens.