Allergy is a disease that is accompanied by an uncomfortable, and sometimes painful, condition. If such a reaction manifests itself on the face, then this causes even greater inconvenience, since the appearance of the person suffers. 
The question arises as to how to treat allergies on the face. Is it possible to cope with this ailment? The success of the treatment will depend on many factors that everyone needs to know about.
Allergy Symptoms
First of all, you need to know what an allergy on the face looks like. There are several forms of its manifestation. 
Redness in the form of spots, small dots may appear on the face. It is not excluded peeling of the skin, rash, blisters similar to those that remain after a nettle burn. Rashes most often occur on the cheeks, chin, nose.
Very dangerous is swelling of the face. This manifestation of allergies usually affects the area of the lips, nose, and eyelids. Conjunctivitis is also one of the manifestations of allergies. It has extremely unpleasant symptoms.
All of these allergic reactions can be accompanied by itchy skin. It is expressed in varying degrees - from mild to painful, with consequences in the form of combs and ulcers.
An allergy to the face, the photo of which sometimes indicates its very strong manifestations, occurs more often than in other parts of the body. The reason may be cosmetics. Before purchasing this or that tool, it is recommended to conduct testing using probes. The composition of the cosmetic product does not exclude the presence of an allergen. If this substance enters the body with food or by air, then the lips, tongue, nose are those organs that are the first to come into contact with a dangerous component.
The face, unlike other parts of the body, is always open, not protected from the harmful effects of the environment.
Types of Allergic Reactions
An allergic reaction can begin immediately or within a few hours after a foreign body enters the body (immediate development option). It is also possible that this ailment makes itself felt only a few days after the moment when the contact with the allergen occurred (delayed view). Are there any differences? The mechanism of these phenomena is almost the same, but the result is the same.
Sources of the problem
The causes of allergies are very diverse. It all depends on what substance is the causative agent of the reaction. The classification of the causes of this phenomenon may look as follows:
- Eating a product (or products) containing an allergen.
- Use of a drug that causes change.
- Insect bites cause the body to respond to poison; complex forms of allergies can occur only in exceptional cases.
- Contact with animals can be dangerous with similar reactions to wool, saliva, feathers.
- Allergy to dust. In this case, the pathogen is a tick.
- Allergy to cold is a special type of disease.
- Allergy to the sun - photodermatitis.
The predisposition to such reactions of the body to seemingly normal phenomena and products is inherited. If one of the parents suffers from an allergy, then with a probability of 40% the child will also fight this disease.
All other causes of allergies are related to the environment and the human condition in it. Pregnant women should be very careful about this issue. It is not uncommon that a newborn has various rashes on his body, an allergy to his face. How to treat it, only a specialist will determine. But during the course of pregnancy, the mother needs to fulfill a number of requirements.
First of all, it concerns compliance with the recommendations on the nutrition of the expectant mother. Weakening the immunity of a pregnant woman is one of the main causes of allergies in a child. Alcohol and smoking also affect the baby's health.
First aid
Allergy on the face (you can see a photo of its manifestations below) is a very serious problem. It is necessary to react to its appearance immediately. 
It is impossible to cure an allergy on your own, but everyone is able to provide first aid and alleviate the condition.
Allergies appear differently. A red face is one of her symptoms. What to do? In this case, it is immediately necessary to clean the skin. This must be done carefully, using wet cotton swabs. A good cleanser is sour milk, kefir, sour cream. The next step in the procedure will be rinsing the face with boiled or distilled water.
One of the ways to provide first aid for such problems can be the use of drugs. New drugs for allergies (“Lordestine”, “Norastemizole”, “Fexofenadine”, “Descarboethoxyloratadine”) have a quick effect, in addition, they are completely harmless. A positive characteristic of such new generation medicines is that they do not have sleeping pills.
Doctors advise to pay attention to the drug "Kestin", which effectively helps with the first signs of an allergy. 
If a person knows about the possibility of a similar reaction in him, then he must have antihistamines in his home medicine cabinet. They must be used immediately after the first signs of allergy.
How to relieve symptoms
Unpleasant symptoms of an allergic reaction that you want to get rid of faster are swelling, rash, spots on the face. An allergy can temporarily recede if you use a compress.
To prepare it, you will need gauze, which must be applied to the face. The fabric can be moistened in a solution of boric acid (1 teaspoon per glass of clean water), in a decoction of chamomile, sage, chilled tea.
Specialist consultation
In addition to recommendations on the use of medications, allergists can give patients simple everyday advice on how to treat allergies on the face, runny nose, conjunctivitis. Recommendations, as a rule, give a good result.
Many people are allergic to flowering plants. You can not get rid of pollen completely, but you can reduce its amount in the room where the patient is. How to do it?
To do this, keep the windows closed. If this does not work out, then you can stretch the gauze in the opening, which must always be wet.
Daily cleaning in the apartment will also alleviate the condition of the patient. It is best to go for a walk in rainy weather when there is no pollen in the air.
If the patient has the opportunity, it is best to go on a journey during the flowering of potentially dangerous plants, change the climate. The main thing is that in a new place you do not have to face the same problem. The exclusion of contact with an allergen is an important condition in the treatment of the disease in question.
Experts advise against using homeopathy and herbal medicine in the fight against the disease if the cause of the allergy is flowering plants. Why? The danger is that herbs and homeopathic remedies can only aggravate the situation.
How to fix the problem?
How to treat an allergy on the face, the doctor will determine. Most often, intramuscular or intravenous injections of such drugs are prescribed: Claritin, Suprastin, Diphenhydramine, etc. 
The use of these drugs in the form of tablets is allowed.
Ointments containing hormones for the treatment of this disease can only be prescribed by a doctor. Their use should be justified due to the seriousness of the composition.
With allergic edema of the face, a diuretic is sometimes prescribed. It is able to remove excess fluid from the body and alleviate the condition of the patient.
To prevent allergic reactions or eliminate its first signs, you can use topical preparations - drops and sprays. These include the following medicines: Romoglin, High-Chrome, Lomuzol.
The treatment of the disease in question is a very long process. This may take several years. In addition, therapy is a complex event. The whole point is to minimize the body’s overreaction to foreign bodies.
Scars, changes in skin pigmentation - allergies on the face can have such unpleasant consequences. Only a specialist can know how to treat an ailment that has arisen, so seeking medical help is the only right decision.
The result of therapy will depend on how correctly identified the causes of the allergy. This is the main condition. Without eliminating the cause of the disease, it is impossible to get rid of it.
Cosmetics
Chamomile cream is a proven tool that will not cure allergies, but will significantly improve the patient’s condition, even for a short time.
It contains azulene, which has a disinfectant and anti-inflammatory effect. Cream based on chamomile is able to heal damaged areas of the skin.
As for decorative cosmetics, the use of it should be completely excluded during the treatment of allergies.
Folk remedies
Recipes of traditional medicine also suggest how to treat an allergy on the face. Such options are especially relevant for people who can not take medication (for example, for pregnant women).
The remedies offered by traditional medicine can be attributed to gentle treatment methods. First of all, it will be plants. Washing with a decoction of herbs will allow you to remove an allergic reaction, act on the skin of the face soothingly. A string and a chamomile have just this ability.
Allergy Diagnosis
If the patient is not sure or does not know what causes him an allergic reaction, then a test is performed. A solution with an allergen is applied to slightly damaged skin of the forearm. During the allotted time, they monitor the condition of the skin, after which they conclude that the pathogen affects the body. When a group of allergens is identified, treatment can begin.
Prevention
From the above it follows that serious attention requires such a thing as an allergy on the face. Doctors and those who have overcome the disease can advise how to get rid of the disease and not let it in.
Preventive measures are most often aimed at preventing an existing disease from becoming acute or chronic.
But there are tips, using which, you can avoid the appearance of this serious ailment. So, it is not recommended to use pillows made of feathers and fluff. They contain a very large number of allergens. Synthetic pillows are safer. Many people prefer them. These materials rarely cause allergies.
Makeup should be used in reasonable quantities. It is worth paying attention to its quality, terms of implementation.
But if nevertheless, runny nose, conjunctivitis, allergies on the face of an adult are pronounced, then you can’t do without the intervention of a doctor, since this is not about the prevention of the disease, but about its treatment. It must be remembered that timely actions by the patient significantly affect the process and outcome of recovery.