Name: 破解迷思！「蜂蜜」其實沒辦法治療過敏！ (No, honey can’t cure your allergies)
Uploaded: 2025-04-26T21:01:10.000Z
Duration: 6 min 59 s

關係子句

They also produce nectar, which bees collect to make honey.

它們還生產花蜜，蜜蜂採集花蜜來釀造蜂蜜。

When they do that, they take some pollen with them.

它們這樣做時，會帶走一些花粉。

So bee honey usually contains some pollen.

When you eat locally produced honey, your body is ingesting small amounts of local pollen — the stuff that would normally make you miserable during allergy season — and building an immunity to it.

當你食用本地產的蜂蜜時，你的身體會攝入少量的在地花粉--這種東西通常會在過敏季節讓你痛苦不堪--並建立起對它的免疫力。

It basically is like micro-dosing the allergies in your area.

這基本上就像是對你所在地區的過敏症進行微劑量治療。

Because even though honey probably won't cure your pollen allergy, it could still be part of the solution.

因為即使蜂蜜不能治癒你的花粉過敏症，它仍然可以成為解決方案的一部分。

Small allergies, also known as hay fever or allergic rhinitis, are your body overreacting to harmless pollen in the environment.

小過敏，又稱花粉熱或過敏性鼻炎，是身體對環境中無害花粉的過度反應。

When your immune system mistakes a specific type of pollen for a dangerous intruder, it goes into defense mode, releasing chemicals called histamines, which are meant to drive the allergen back out of your body — by making you sneeze, cough, itch, and generally feel miserable.

當你的免疫系統將某種花粉誤認為是危險的入侵者時，它就會進入防禦模式，釋放出稱為組胺的化學物質，目的是通過讓您打噴嚏、咳嗽、發癢並普遍感覺難受來將過敏原趕出體外。

In other words, they trigger an allergic reaction.

換句話說，它們會引發過敏反應。

And once you have an allergy, it's hard to get rid of, because your immune system has a memory.

一旦過敏，就很難擺脫，因為你的免疫系統有記憶。

Once it decides something is a threat, it won't forget.

一旦它認定某樣東西是威脅，就不會忘記。

So every time you encounter that same pollen again, your body will sound the alarm and flood you with histamines.

每當你再次遇到相同的花粉時，你的身體就會發出警報，讓組織胺大量湧入你的體內。

And that means that there are really only two ways to treat them.

這就意味著，治療它們實際上只有兩種方法。

The most common one is antihistamines, a type of drug that blocks your histamines from triggering symptoms.

最常見的是抗組胺藥，這是一種能阻止組胺引發症狀的藥物。

But there's another way too, what's called immunotherapy.

但也有另一種方法，即所謂的免疫療法。

Where we help retrain your immune system to not have such a crazy, chaotic, exaggerated response.

在這裡，我們幫助重新訓練你的免疫系統，使其不再產生如此瘋狂、混亂、誇張的反應。

They basically introduce small bits of the allergen into your system.

它們基本上是將少量的過敏原帶入你的體內。

And in order to be effective, the dose you receive has to exist in a sort of sweet spot — enough to wake up your immune system and even trigger slight symptoms at the injection point — but not enough to trigger a whole-body, systematic response.

為了達到效果，所注射的劑量必須處於某種甜蜜點--足以喚醒你的免疫系統，甚至在注射點引發輕微症狀，但又不足以引發全身系統性反應。

And then over time, we slowly increase that amount so that we're basically not tricking your immune system, but getting it to tolerate those amounts.

然後隨著時間的推移，我們會慢慢增加這個量，這樣我們基本上就不是在欺騙你的免疫系統，而是讓它能夠耐受這些量。

As a dose you receive increases, your body's threshold for this sweet spot does too, until eventually you barely respond to the allergen at all.

隨著接受的劑量增加，身體對這一甜蜜點的閾值也會增加，直到最後你幾乎對過敏原沒有任何反應。

So over time, not days or weeks, but like over months and years, we can get your immune system to tolerate being around that trigger, that allergen, and not have the same symptoms.

隨著時間的推移，不是幾天或幾周，而是幾個月或幾年，我們就能讓你的免疫系統耐受周圍的誘發因素、過敏原，而不再出現同樣的症狀。

So if these shots contain a tiny bit of allergens, and honey contains a tiny bit of allergens, why not just eat honey instead?

如果這些注射劑含有少量過敏原，而蜂蜜含有少量過敏原，為什麼不直接吃蜂蜜呢？

After a very quick break, we'll tell you why.

等等休息後，我們將告訴你原因。

Hi, I'm Claire, and this video is brought to you by Amazon.

大家好，我是克萊爾，這部影片由亞馬遜贊助播出。

I don't love allergies, and when it comes to healthcare, I don't love long lines, long forms, or long waits.

我不喜歡過敏，在醫療保健方面，我也不喜歡排長隊、填表或長時間等待。

這正是亞馬遜可以提供幫助的地方。

From fast prescription delivery by Amazon Pharmacy to 24-7 virtual care by Amazon One

從亞馬遜藥房的快速處方交付到亞馬遜一號店的全天候虛擬護理

Medical, they reduce hassles and friction points to make it easier to get care.

在醫療方面，它們減少了麻煩和摩擦點，使人們更容易獲得醫療服務。

Like all of our sponsors, Amazon doesn't have editorial influence on our work, but their support does make videos like this one possible.

與我們所有的贊助商一樣，亞馬遜對我們的工作沒有編輯方面的影響，但他們的支持使我們能夠製作這樣的影片。

But when people think that they're using it to treat seasonal and environmental allergies, probably not.

但是，當人們認為用它來治療季節性過敏和環境過敏時，可能就不是這樣了。

And the main reason why is a pretty simple one.

Every plant species has distinct pollen, and people with seasonal allergies are allergic to particular ones, not the substance as a whole.

每種植物都有不同的花粉，季節性過敏症患者是對特定的花粉過敏，而不是對整個物質過敏。

The most common offenders being plants like ragweed, grass, and certain trees, which reproduce by flooding the air with their pollen.

最常見的汙染源是豚草、青草和某些樹木等植物，它們的花粉會在空氣中大量繁殖。

Those are really, really light particles, and they travel really, really far distances.

這些都是非常非常輕的粒子，它們的傳播距離非常非常遠。

I'm talking like hundreds and thousands of miles.

Ending up all over our cars and driveways and decks, and in our respiratory tracts.

最後在我們的汽車、車道和露臺上到處都是，還進入了我們的呼吸道。

But bees, famously, like brightly colored flowers, which reproduce with the help of pollinators.

但是，蜜蜂卻喜歡色彩鮮豔的花朵，它們在授粉者的幫助下繁衍後代。

So their large, dense, sticky pollen particles tend to stay close to home.

是它們的花粉顆粒大、密度高、粘性強，往往會留在家附近。

Perfect for hitching a ride on bees to breed more flowers, but unlikely to cause allergies.

非常適合搭蜜蜂的便車，繁殖更多的花朵，但不太可能引起過敏。

That's not to say that people are not going to have symptoms around flowers, right?

這並不是說人們不會在花朵周圍出現症狀，對嗎？

Because the pollen can create a scent that can be very irritating, especially if you have other allergic conditions like asthma.

因為花粉會產生一種非常刺激的氣味，尤其是如果你有哮喘等其他過敏性疾病的話。

But even if you were allergic to the pollen present in your honey?

但是，即使你對蜂蜜中的花粉過敏？

If you ate a spoonful of that, you would have what our patients who have oral allergy syndrome have, which is crazy mouth itching, throat itching.

如果你吃了一勺這樣的東西，你就會像我們的口腔過敏綜合徵患者一樣，出現瘋狂的口腔瘙癢和喉嚨瘙癢。

And even then, allergy immunotherapy requires a lot of precision to be safe and effective.

即便如此，過敏免疫療法也需要非常精確才能安全有效。

Increase a dose too quickly or miss a dose, you risk a more serious reaction.

如果劑量增加過快或漏服，就有可能出現更嚴重的反應。

Immunotherapy is necessarily a finicky, precise, long-term process controlled by certified allergists.

免疫療法必然是一個複雜、精確、長期的過程，由經過認證的過敏症專家進行控制。

The allergen count in honey is controlled by bees.

蜂蜜中的過敏原數量是由蜜蜂控制的。

So local honey most likely can't cure your allergies.

在地蜂蜜很可能無法治癒你的過敏症。

But that doesn't mean it can't offer some relief during allergy season.

但這並不意味著它不能在過敏季節提供一些緩解。

A small study from Malaysia found that honey helps when combined with antihistamines, likely because honey is soothing and actually a really effective cough suppressant.

馬來西亞的一項小型研究發現，蜂蜜與抗組胺藥合用時會有幫助，這可能是因為蜂蜜具有舒緩作用，而且實際上是一種非常有效的止咳劑。

It's worth noting, however, that the people in that study had to consume a lot of honey, like multiple tablespoons a day.

不過，值得注意的是，這項研究中的人必須食用大量蜂蜜，比如每天多湯匙。

So I can appreciate what people are trying to accomplish with natural remedies.

我能理解人們想通過自然療法達到什麼目的。

But is it going to be the thing that retrains your immune system?

但它能重新訓練你的免疫系統嗎？

There's a reason people have been using honey for medicinal purposes for centuries.

幾個世紀以來，人們一直將蜂蜜用於藥用目的，這是有原因的。

For things like weakness and loss of appetite in 13th century Iran, and pain relief in ancient

比如在 13 世紀的伊朗，用於治療虛弱和食慾不振；在古代，用於緩解疼痛。

It's got some pretty striking healing properties.

Because, and modern studies do support this, it's naturally antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and of course, biodegradable.

因為，現代研究也證實了這一點，它具有天然的抗菌、消炎作用，當然還可以生物降解。

Which is part of why honey may be particularly helpful when incorporated into sensitive treatments like bone grafts, burn dressings, and dental implants.

這也是為什麼在骨移植、燒傷敷料和植牙等敏感治療中加入蜂蜜會特別有用的部分原因。

So provided you're not allergic to honey, which some people are, or a baby who is under 12 months old, honey definitely has its uses.

如果你對蜂蜜不過敏（有些人對蜂蜜過敏），或者你的寶寶還不到 12 個月大，那麼蜂蜜肯定有它的用處。

It's just that curing your allergies isn't one of them.

只是，治療過敏症並不是其中之一。