Exercise 5. Answer the questions:
What is allergy?
When do allergies occur?
What is sensitization?
What may a person be allergic to?
What are the common symptoms of allergy?
How is severe allergic reaction called?
What does such a reaction involve?
Why does anaphylaxis require urgent emergency management?
Exercise 6. Give English equivalents to the word combinations:
загрозливі для життя алергічні реакції, висипання і свербіж, різке зниження кров’яного тиску, нудота і блювання, кропивниця, чхання й нежить, імунна реакція, бути під впливом алергену, важкість під час говоріння й ковтання, задишка й хрипіння, густий слизовий секрет, квітковий пилок, хімічні речовини, пліснява і кліщі.
Exercise 7. Put the questions to the underlined words:
Mosquito bite allergy symptoms include itching, hives, and swelling.
While environment plays a role in allergy development, there is a greater risk of developing allergic conditions if a person has a family history of allergy.
Testing of the skin or blood may be useful in certain cases.
In the developed world about 20% of people are affected by allergic rhinitis.
Allergic reactions can result from foods, insect stings, and reactions to medications.
Rates of many allergic diseases appear to be increasing.
In severe reactions epinephrine is recommended.
Inhaled allergens can also lead to increased production of mucus in the lungs, shortness of breath, coughing, and wheezing.
Exercise 8. Open the brackets, using the verbs in the correct tense and voice forms:
Food allergies or food intolerances (to affect) nearly everyone at some point.
People often have an unpleasant reaction to something they (to eat) and wonder if they (to have) a food allergy.
If you (to suffer) from a milk allergy, strictly avoiding milk and food containing milk and milk products (to be) the only way to prevent a reaction, which (to include) immediate wheezing, vomiting, and hives.
Egg allergies are more common in children than in adults and reaction (to range) from mild to severe.
If a person (to be) allergic to any wheat protein, he should strictly (to avoid) wheat and wheat products, which (to include) stomach upset, eczema, allergic rhinitis, bronchospasm and even anaphylaxis.
Peanut allergies (to affect) about 4 percent of adults and 6 percent of children.
A single ragweed plant (to create) up to a billion pollen particles in a year, affecting people with ragweed allergies, namely stuffy sinuses.
While all allergy symptoms (to cause) by a hypersensitive response to an otherwise harmless substance, not all allergies (to be) the same.
Достарыңызбен бөлісу: |
