Is it okay to have allergies if your immunity improves

The answer is not necessarily. Some people with allergies even blindly pursue "improving immunity", which will make allergy attacks more frequent and symptoms more severe.

There was a sophomore girl who came for consultation before. She was allergic to sycamore catkins in spring. I heard from bloggers that allergies are caused by poor immunity. So she took vitamin C effervescent tablets every day, drank high-protein meal replacements, and forced herself to run five kilometers every morning to "strengthen her physical fitness."

Many people have misunderstandings about immunity. They think the higher the better. In fact, it is more like a home security system. Under normal conditions, it only catches viruses from thieves who break in. If the security system is too sensitive, it will treat passing neighbors and delivery guys as viruses. If the bad guy beats you up, it will become an allergy - those pollen, cat hair, and mangoes that make you uncomfortable when you come into contact are essentially "harmless passers-by" that are misjudged by the immune system. At this time, if you blindly upgrade the security system and send more security guards, wouldn't it make the trouble even worse?

Of course, this does not mean that adjusting immunity is completely useless for allergies. I used to have a programmer friend who had been rushing to launch a project for half a year. He stayed up until two or three o'clock every day. Suddenly he became allergic to cat hair. When he hugged the cat at home, he would get red rashes all over his arms. If he went to check, it was either a congenital allergy or an immune disorder caused by staying up late and being stressed for a long time. Later, he quit his 996 job, exercised regularly and went to bed early every day, and didn't take any supplements. After more than half a year, he picked up the cat again, and nothing happened.

There is currently no unified conclusion in the academic community on this matter. One group believes that as long as the immunity is adjusted to a state of dynamic balance, the frequency and symptoms of allergies, whether congenital or acquired, will be significantly reduced; the other group believes that hereditary allergies themselves have specific immune response defects. Even if the immune status is stable, exposure to high concentrations of allergens will still trigger allergic reactions, and it cannot be completely cured by adjusting immunity.

As an interesting little detail, I accompanied a friend to the allergist department before. The doctor complained that at least one-third of the patients with worsened allergies in the outpatient clinic had done so by blindly "replenishing their immunity." Many people take immunomodulatory drugs such as spleen aminopeptides and transfer factors as allergy miracle drugs. If they are not symptomatic, they will suffer from urticaria and angioedema. If you really want to improve your allergies, don't always focus on the five words "improving immunity." First check the allergens, and then do an immune function assessment to find out whether your immune system is "too weak" or "too crazy", and then adjust accordingly. It is much more reliable than buying health care products blindly.