Allergies: an inmmunological tantrum

By: Dr. Gabriel Óscar Bertona
"The Symptom and its Function", December 2011

What are allergies?

Specialists refer there are several reasons that favor the increase of allergic diseases in our time, first the urbanization and environmental pollution, changes in pollination (global warming), the largest number of cesareans and colonization ( by normal bacterial flora) conditioning the inmune response, the absence or reduced breastfeeding (ideally exclusively until 6 months to one and a half year) Also affecting the amount of antibodies, and / or early weaning (the passage of food based on milk solids) before 6 months, increasing the passage of allergens (substances that cause an exaggerated response of the immune system).

All this should make us think about our society and what we build every day, and the importance of consciousness from conception and at every stage of the first year of life, which is so important for the maturation of the immune system.

Like all diseases, allergy reflects an aspect of personality, an attitude towards life, where we do not recognize, we deny ourselves, and get sick because of that, we restricte our freedom and creative expression in life. Reflects different degrees of intolerance, scandal, immunological and psychological tantrums, irritability, perfectionism, pride, denial of one's mistakes, and, as in other cases, the higher is the intensity of the resistance to change, the higher is the symptom intensity.

What heals allergies?

If the problem is things I perceive as terrible, that enervate me, I can not stand, unthinkable, me or others, and over time I become intolerant and arrogant then, the kit against allergies must contain acceptance, openness, toleration, respect to diversity, noting the contributions of all to unity, humility, compassion, soften, permission to err , warn mistakes as sacred evolutionary possibilities, stop competing or perceiving myself as superior from the others, stop pretending "to change" the world and instead take care of improving myself, get out of the solitude of " my truth " and open up to the diversity of particular truths, etc.

Let's not resign ourselves to be "allergic", as this can be fraught with stigma and grave. Allergy is an attitude and, as everything in life, is susceptible to change and a process of transformation as profound as we encourage and commit with ourselves.