These drugs can help
As mentioned above, adrenaline is the drug of choice for treating an acute allergic reaction in food allergy. Adrenaline causes an increase in blood pressure and dilation of the airways by narrowing the blood vessels and dilating the bronchial muscles. This is extremely important in anaphylactic shock, where there is often a sharp drop in blood pressure, which can go as far as shock, and a marked narrowing of the airways with shortness of breath, up to complete obstruction of the airways with suffocation.
In addition to adrenaline as a drug for the treatment of an acutely life-threatening allergic reaction, there are drugs from the group of antihistamines and glucocorticoids that are used to treat an allergic reaction. They have an inhibitory effect on the histamine-releasing cells and anti-inflammatory effects, thus reducing symptoms such as rashes, itching and runny nose, as well as itchy and watery eyes and respiratory and gastrointestinal problems. Both antihistamines and glucocorticoids act with a time delay. While the effect of antihistamines sets in after minutes to hours, glucocorticoids only work after hours to days and only if taken regularly.
