What does an allergy attack involve?
During an allergy attack, the body reacts 'excessively' to an intrinsically harmless substance. The immune system regards the substance as an intruder that must be stopped. This triggers an immune response involving the production of IgE-antibodies. As a result of this process, the body releases histamine from certain cells. Released in the body, this histamine evokes allergic symptoms. Those allergic symptoms are in fact caused by inflammatory reactions, which is the body's way of chasing off 'the intruders'. The types of complaints accompanying the reaction depend on the location in the body where the reaction took place, its severity as well as other factors

