Allergies are not watery eyes and stuffed up noses. Allergies are responses to irritants. Something foreign is causing the body’s cleansing responses. Such as walking right behind a smoky bus when it starts up. You breathe in the fumes and start coughing and choking, with your eyes watering. That’s an allergic reaction. People are allergic to bus exhaust. Eyes water to clear the eyes. Coughing reflex takes over to forcibly expel the toxic fumes before they get inhaled. Occurs immediately.
Tolerance is an adaptation to tension. Whenever we get used to an irritant, the entire body eventually gives up on trying to expel it. Just like a bus mechanic. After a few weeks or months of breathing those fumes every single day, the entire body doesn’t try so hard. The very sensitive mucous membranes in the mouth and nose toughen up a little, and the mechanic learns to “take it.” He’s becoming less sensitized to a poison - carbon monoxide. Doesn’t mean it won’t kill him; it simply indicates the entire body is getting accustomed to that degree of being poisoned. The irritant is no longer causing such a strong cleansing response as it used to.
Tolerance is an adaptation to tension. Whenever we get used to an irritant, the entire body eventually gives up on trying to expel it. Just like a bus mechanic. After a few weeks or months of breathing those fumes every single day, the entire body doesn’t try so hard. The very sensitive mucous membranes in the mouth and nose toughen up a little, and the mechanic learns to “take it.” He’s becoming less sensitized to a poison - carbon monoxide. Doesn’t mean it won’t kill him; it simply indicates the entire body is getting accustomed to that degree of being poisoned. The irritant is no longer causing such a strong cleansing response as it used to.
For more, read about child allergies.
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