Chiropractic Treatment

Your Ventura Chiropractor knows that allergies can make our everyday life a misery. Unwelcome symptoms like itchy eyes, a runny nose, sneezing, or a skin rash can be the consequence of a simple walk in the park, a play date with Kitty, a seafood pasta, or even something as small as a nut.

To make things worse, for some individuals, and perhaps you’re one of them allergic reactions can progress from just plain irritating to dangerous and life-threatening as the air passageway begins to close and breathing becomes labored. This evolution of symptoms can often cause a state of panic.

In fact, if you have allergies, it may seem that, from time-to-time, your environment is an intensely hostile place and that the world around you is, literally, out to get you!

Why does your body react, or rather overreact, to the environment with so severely while other people appear to be unaffected? It’s a valid question. The answer is because some individuals, like you, have a hyperactive immune system that actually “freaks out” when you come into contact with ordinary substances such as pollen, dander, shellfish, or nuts.

Can your Ventura Chiropractor help with your allergy symptoms? You may be surprised by the answer. Even though chiropractic care doesn’t treat allergies, quite a few individuals notice that they experience relief from their allergy symptoms after receiving chiropractic adjustments.

The reason for this is because chiropractic adjustments affect the complete nervous system, including the autoimmune system. When there’s a disturbance in the nervous system, in conjunction with other problems, the autoimmune system, whose responsibility it is to assist you in adapting and responding appropriately to your environment, can become under-active or overactive. In the case of your allergies, the breakdown is the latter (it becomes overactive).

Because chiropractic manipulations decrease or eliminate disturbances in the nervous system and bring the body back into balance and harmony, the treatments provide that same homeostasis to the auto-immune system as well. A strong immune system responds appropriately to so-called allergens in the environment.

So, as explained above, your chiropractor doesn’t directly treat allergies. You could say, rather, that ease from your allergies is merely the by-product of a well-adjusted nervous system. If you want to get back into harmony with your environment as soon as possible, call your Ventura Chiropractor today.

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