Homeopathy: diseases — симптомы, диагностика и лечение

Atopic dermatitis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease, which is based on a violation of the skin barrier. The skin loses moisture, becomes dry and easily allows irritants and allergens to pass through - hence inflammation and painful itching. The disease most often begins in the first year of life, and for most children it becomes much easier with age. The key to control is not the search for “that same product,” but the daily restoration of the barrier with emollients, which parents are often not told about.

Hay fever is an allergy to plant pollen, and its main feature is that it comes on schedule. The same person begins to sneeze in the same weeks year after year, and between seasons feels completely healthy. The immune system mistakes harmless pollen proteins for a threat and deploys a full-fledged defense against them - hence the itching, runny nose, and red, watery eyes. Two things are worth knowing right away. First: hay fever by itself does not go away with age and without treatment it often expands - pollen from one plant is added to the pollen of another, and bronchi are added to the nose. Second: the only method that acts on the cause and not on the symptoms is allergen-specific immunotherapy, and it must be started in advance, out of season. Everything else, including the popular advice to “treat yourself with honey,” masks the symptoms at best, and at worst adds new problems.

Tension headaches are the most common headache in the world, and that is why they are almost never treated: they just live with it, swallow a pill and get back to business. It feels like a squeezing hoop or a tight hat, covers the head on both sides, is rarely strong and does not get worse from normal walking. It does not pose a danger in itself, but it has an insidious continuation, which few people know about: if painkillers are taken more than a certain number of days a month, they themselves begin to cause headaches. So rare attacks turn into a daily background, and the person is sure that the disease is progressing, although the reason lies in the package of pills on his desk.

Chronic fatigue syndrome is a condition that is most often spoken of with a tinge of disbelief: “everyone is tired,” “just rest,” “go in for sports.” Meanwhile, we are not talking about ordinary fatigue, but about a pronounced decrease in performance, which lasts at least six months, does not go away after rest and radically narrows a person’s life. It is distinguished by one characteristic feature that is absent in ordinary overwork: after an exercise - sometimes very small, like going to the store - the condition worsens sharply, and often not immediately, but after a day, and recovery takes days. That is why the universal advice “move more” here may not help, but harm, and that is why, before making a diagnosis, it is necessary to exclude a number of diseases that are perfectly treatable.

Insomnia is not just “I don’t sleep well,” but a condition in which sleep disturbance occurs at least three nights a week and affects daytime well-being. Its main feature is that over time it breaks away from the original cause and begins to support itself: a person is afraid of not falling asleep, goes to bed with anxiety, and it is this anxiety that prevents sleep. Therefore, sleeping pills, which seem like an obvious solution, work the worst for chronic insomnia - but the first choice is considered to be something completely different.