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How can stress induce a skin allergy?
by Maven911 15y ago
How can stress induce a skin allergy?
- AndrewDucker 15y agoStress increases cortisol levels. Cortisol levels influence immune response. Allergies are an immune response.
- Maven911 15y agoThanks for the response - also to the other commentors, it`s not like I have not heard that stress induces other problems-diseases, it is just that it is something that I find very hard to prove that an illness can be directly attributed to stress, considering that many of us have stress in our daily lives.
- AndrewDucker 15y agoThat usually requires a bit of experience - if your allergies go away when you take a few days off work then they're either stress related or there's something in your office that triggers them...
- nicksergeant 15y agoA reasonable question, and the answer is that enough stress can create many physical symptoms. Eczema (a skin condition) is frequently attributable to stress.
- ed209 15y agostress can do a lot of things you would never expect. And no matter how invincible you feel now, stress builds up in the background, drip-drip kind of build up over years. Then one day, you find you have an ulcer or a panic attack or some other physical manifestation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_(physiology) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_(physiology)
- dextorious 15y agoWTF? This is medicine 101.