English-Latvian translations for allergy

• alerģija
  rakstiski. - (HU) Alerģija mūsdienās ir endēmiska slimība. in writing. - (HU) Allergy is the endemic disease of our time.
  Piemēram, iepriekš cilvēki, kas cieta no alerģijas, nebija nemaz pieminēti tiesību aktos. Previously, for example, allergy sufferers were not even mentioned in the legislation.
  Vienai trešdaļai mūsu bērnu ir alerģija, un, ja mēs nerīkosimies, pavisam drīz puse Eiropas iedzīvotāju cietīs no kāda alerģijas veida. A third of our children have an allergy, and if we do not take action, pretty soon a half of the population of Europe will suffer from one allergy or another.

Definition of allergy

• A disorder of the immune system causing adverse reactions to substances not harmful to most and marked by the body's production of histamines and associated with atopy, anaphylaxis, and asthma
• Altered susceptibility to a first treatment as exhibited in reaction to a subsequent one

Examples

• He has an allergy to reality TV

Related words

• photoallergy
• anti-allergy
• crossallergy
• allergy#Inglese|allergy
• allergy sufferer
• pollen allergy
• food allergy
• sun allergy