 
                            Cotton Mouth, Difficulty Swallowing, Lack Of Taste And Smell, Dizziness, Itchy Eyes, Burning Throat After Contact With Chemicals. Anything I Could Know?
 
 
                                    
                                     Sun, 13 May 2012
                                                
                                            
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                                             Wed, 11 Jul 2012
                                                
                                                
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                                            Thanks for your query.
The symptoms you have are very typical and seen in allergies to Hydrocarbons and related chemicals. The long history of the symptoms adds to this fact.
Allergy to such chemicals which occur in many substances with mild changes in chemical structure could be very annoying as most of such chemicals are volatile and even solid forms liberate fumes continuously.
Taking Benadryl will surely comfort you for temporarily. The mainstay treatment is in avoiding the allergens.
I would ask you to visit a Allergy specialist who can perform tests like skin test or blood test to detect IgE (allergy antibody) and confirm the fact.
As I said avoiding the allergen is the best treatment but a difficult one.
Also newer treatment techniques are in play like Immuno therapy .Here desensitization or hyposensitization is a treatment in which the person is gradually vaccinated with progressively larger doses of the allergen in question. This can either reduce the severity or eliminate hypersensitivity altogether. It works by blocking excessive IgE production seen in atopys. In a sense, the person builds up immunity to increasing amounts of the allergen in question.
Such immunothreapies are practised by allergy specialist only. Hence,I do recommend a visit to him.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further
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