Allergy and Asthma Symptoms in Fox Valley, IL

Symptoms usually indicating allergies include the following:

• Hay fever
• Sinus/chronic headaches
• Nasal itching, congestion, postnasal drip, clearing throat, sniffles, and sneezes
• Hives and localized swellings
• Chronic or episodic itchy rashes
• Cough, short of breath, wheezing both at rest and at exercise
• Frequent or chronic bronchitis
• Chronic fatigue
• Ocular itch, rubbing eyes, tearing, redness, dark baggy circles under eye
• Chronic sore throats and itching
• Rubbing nose, nasal crease
• Suspected food allergies at all ages
• Allergic reactions to medications
• Allergic reactions to pets with hair
• Other animal allergic reactions
• Reactions to stinging insects

Diagnoses that are often confused with allergies include the following:

• Chronic sinuses
• Chronic infection of the lungs or bronchitis
• Non-allergic rashes (50% or more of all rashes)
• Foreign object in nose or lung
• Any constriction of the main breathing tubes
• Simple local reactions to insect stings
• Recurrent earaches in young children
• Nose running from cold, peppers, wind, swimming, or eating
• Pink eye in children or adults