Drug allergies can cause different symptoms and these include hives, rashes, diarrhoea, asthma, joint pains. The most common reaction occurs following ingestion of ASA, penicillin, and other antibiotics. Again, strict avoidance is mandatory. Other less common allergies include allergy to latex, particularly in people who wear rubber gloves such as paramedics, allied health care workers, food handlers, and in children with certain medical conditions such as spina bifida who have frequent exposure to natural rubber latex products through surgery. Latex cross reacts with some foods and those with a latex allergy may react to kiwi, banana, chestnut, and avocado and should avoid these foods.
Industrial allergies are complex.
Because allergic people are more sensitive to different nonspecific substances such as fumes, tobacco smoke, various odours, newsprint, perfumes, most of these substances cause non-specific irritation or may aggravate present allergies in sensitive patients. Therefore, strict avoidance and elimination is recommended. After treatment with desensitization, the original symptoms often decrease and even the non-specific reactions decrease in intensity. Allergy injections known as immunotherapy or desensitization treatment against specific allergens such as grass, pollen, dust mites, mould, etc. are given with small doses of allergen extract injected under the skin at certain intervals with increasing doses until the body builds specific blocking antibodies that successfully block the allergic reaction and the symptoms disappear. This form of treatment is recommended in patients if the conservative approach fails to help in rhinitis or bronchial asthma or in severe insect allergy.