Is It Time To Replace Your Pillow?

Has your pillow turned yellow? It’s not a pretty sight, nor is the reason behind it. Why do pillows turn yellow? They can turn yellow for a number of reasons, including sweat, drool, oil from skin and hair, or residue…

Is Water Damage Bad For Your Health?

It doesn’t matter if it’s from a broken pipe, a leaky roof, or flooding from severe weather; water damage causes significant problems for your home and property. Not only can it lead to expensive repairs, but it can also cause…

Hacks For An Allergy-Free Hotel Room

Hotels tend to look freshly cleaned and ready for you to enjoy their home away from home vibes. But is your hotel really as clean as it looks? We usually think of staying in hotels as a luxury, a treat…

Halloween Holiday Habits That Could Be Harmful

Halloween can be full of spooky fun for both kids and adults. However, there is a darker side to this ancient holiday that you should be aware of. Many of our favorite Halloween pastimes could be sources of toxins, air…

Does Poor Air Quality Affect Our Pets

CAN PETS BE VULNERABLE TO POOR AIR QUALITY? Unfortunately, various scientific studies have confirmed that pets can and are harmed by air pollution and poor air quality. Studies have found that dogs who lived in homes where pesticides were used…

Budget-Friendly Holiday Gifts For Allergy Sufferers –

Deciding what to get loved ones and friends for the holidays is challenging as it is. Add allergies into the mix, and it’s even more difficult. Thankfully, we’ve made this easy-to-navigate guide on the best holiday gifts for the allergy…

Top Tips For Winter Sinus Relief

When the winter season starts peaking around the corner and the holidays are near, you may start getting excited to hang holiday decorations and make plans with loved ones. But for some of us, the cold weather is coupled with…

Make Your Home A Healthy Haven All Winter Long

Create A Healthy Home As temperatures drop, we naturally want to hunker down inside, keeping the house sealed up to stay warm. But what you might not realize is that as you shut the windows and doors to keep toasty,…

Why We Love BedCare™

If night-time allergies are keeping you awake, you might want to take a look at the type of bedding your using. Investing in the best anti-allergy bedding can help reduce exposure to and relieve allergy symptoms overall, letting you get…

Why You Should Regularly Replace Your Furnace Filter

Have you ever wondered if or why your furnace filter needs replacing? Do you even know what a furnace filter is? According to a furnace repair company, a furnace filter is very necessary and can either increase or decrease your…

Tricks & Tips To Manage Dorm Room Allergies

Tricks & Tips to Manage Dorm Room Allergies The fall season is fast approaching, and with it, back to school. For some students, this is the beginning of an exciting new chapter in their lives – dorm life! With everything…

What is TENCEL™?

What is Tencel™ ? If you’re into fashion such as pieces like long sequin prom dresses, upholstery, or the fabric/textile world in general, you may have heard the term “Tencel” being used lately. Maybe you already know what TENCEL™ is,…

Can Covid Masks Help With Seasonal Allergies?

Can Covid Masks Help With Seasonal Allergies? It’s pretty widely known that face masks, in general, can help reduce the spread of respiratory infections such as covid and the flu. But did you know they can help limit the number…

How to Relieve Allergy Symptoms on a Budget –

How to Relieve Allergy Symptoms on a Budget – Allergies are difficult enough on their own without the added expenses of doctor’s visits, medicines, and costly remedies. There are also some long term plans that you can make and save…

Staying Healthy Indoors In 2022 –

Staying Healthy Indoors In 2022 – Each new year brings new chances for change, improved health, and a higher sense of wellbeing. This, coupled with being stuck indoors due to seasonal weather and changing times, means staying healthy at home…

The Important Role Sleep Plays in Weight Loss

The Important Role Sleep Plays in Weight Loss – Here at Achoo, we’re all about fighting allergies. Did you know that allergies can affect the quality of sleep you get? And have you heard before that sleep can influence weight…

Allergies Around the World

Allergies are the most common form of chronic disease, and they affect millions of people around the world every day. Although they fall under the label “disease,” allergies are just the body’s extreme response to usually non-threatening elements. You develop…

The Five Best Air Purifiers for Homes with Pets

We love our furry friends, even if they make us sneezy, wheezy and itchy. If you’re one of the 15 percent of people who suffer from pet allergies but have decided that a life with your four-legged pals is worth…

20 Simple Ways to Reduce Home Allergens

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the average home is subject to a whole slew of indoor pollutants, including dust mites, mold, bacteria, viruses, smoke, pollen, pet dander. You may also need to worry about bothersome gaseous pollutants…

How to Prepare for Spring Allergy Season

Are You Ready for Spring Allergies? If you’re like many allergy sufferers, you may be dreading the spring allergy season. And of course the impending doom of spring-related allergies. Spring means great weather, sunshine, picnics and plenty of time outdoors.…

Alternatives for Food Allergy Sufferers

Millions of people in the United States are affected by food allergies – and that number is only rising.  While experts are still trying to understand the cause for the continued rise of food allergies over the past few decades,…

New Pet? The Best Products for Dealing with Pet Allergies

Getting a new pet is always fun and exciting, but, sometimes, all this fun comes with something that isn’t as welcome as your new furry friend: pet allergies.  Whether you knew beforehand that you or someone in your household had…

10 Tips to Improve Your Home’s Air Quality This Winter

Winter is a time of year that leads many people to spend more time indoors, but poor indoor air quality can make this a misery, sometime because of lack of power. So, why hire generators? For many people living in…

Do Seasons Affect Allergies?

Ever heard the term allergy season? While the word season in this case refers to the particular stretch of time in which certain allergies flare up, different allergy seasons do correspond with different seasons of the year. Each season brings its…

How to Stress Less: Food Related Anxiety and Kids

  Having kids can be the most wonderful thing ever to happen to you. Parenthood brings unbelievable heights of love and wonder into your life; it can also be indescribably terrifying. Even if you have a kid without a life…

Safe Methods to Eradicate Dust Mites

Dust mites are one of the most common causes of allergies, and a prime trigger for asthma in those who are prone to it. They are minuscule, maddening, irritating, and everywhere. If you have a dust mite allergy, it may…

Pillows for Those with Down Feather Allergies

If you suffer from down feather allergies, then you’re probably familiar with a variety of factors that trigger your allergy symptoms, as well as some effective ways of dealing with these factors and your symptoms.

Top Vacuum Cleaners for Pet Hair

Pets make for great companions and for most people they’re just like another member of the family.  Cleaning up after them, though, can be somewhat of a handful, especially if they happen to shed a lot or you’ve got a…

How to Sleep Better During Allergy Season

When you’re prone to allergies, getting a restful night’s sleep can feel like a repeating battle that you never seem to win. In fact, allergy symptoms will often get worse at night, making it even less likely that you’ll simply…

How to Reduce Ragweed Allergy Symptoms

Fall weather may bring with it much anticipated relief from the sweltering heat of summer, but for those with a ragweed allergy the end of summer is just when ragweed season is revving up. Ragweed is incredibly prolific throughout North…

Tame Allergy Triggers

Every allergy sufferer wishes nothing more than relief from the arduous symptoms their triggers cause. While there is no cure as of yet, there are many ways to tame your allergies. However, the most important step is know what allergies…

Allergy Proof Your Bedroom – Step 1: Encase Your Bedding

Allergies, asthma, COPD. These three common respiratory problems can all cause problems while we sleep. While these conditions in an of themselves are the mechanism, the actual culprit triggering them is often found in your bedding – dust mites. These…

Mask Breathability and Heat While Exercising

We field a pretty wide variety of fitness information, regularly, but there are two I wanted to go over today. The first is, do cold weather masks help? The second question generally revolves around face mask breathability, particularly with regard…

2015 Fall Allergy Tips – Halloween

With October quickly drawing to a close, there are a few news and notes worth mentioning. For people with allergies and asthma, ragweed is wreaking havoc, particularly in the south. Drier conditions have helped to create an ideal situation for…

Check Your Filters – Spring To-Do List

Spring allergy season is in full swing. How do I know this, you ask? Easy. When the sneezing around the office sounds like a veritable spring symphony. When the tissue box is always empty. When the gunk coming out of…

Spring Allergies Arrive… Just in Time for Easter!

As the weather begins to warm again, that most joyous time of year is nearly upon us – spring! Sunshine, warm temperatures, daffodils, and blooming plants of all varieties. It’s official, spring allergies arrive… and just in time for Easter!…

Ask an Allergist – Dr. Mardiney – Spring 2015

Though we’ve taken a bit of a hiatus, our favorite allergist, Dr. Mardiney, is back to answer some of your allergy and asthma related questions. Up today for Ask an Allergist are some questions regarding hidden allergens and triggers in…

It’s Coming, And Sooner Than You Think

It's been creeping up on us for several weeks now. Scattered reports coming in from across the country, the midwest, the northeast… It continues it slow but steady march across the nation. We've tried to push it to the back…

Keep It Dry and Eliminate Mold This Summer

Summer time is one of the best times of the year (along with spring, fall and winter)! It’s the time when we often take trips to the lake, the pool, and anywhere where the sun is warm and worries are…

Details, Details! Humidity, Ice Cream & Friday

As we focus on providing you the tools and resources you need to take control of your indoor environment and reduce symptoms from allergies, asthma or MCS, there is often a focus on large products. This time of year, as…

Ask an Allergist – Dr. Mardiney (Round Two)

As the latest addition in our Ask an Allergist series, we tackle the development of a pet allergy as well as the tricky question of whether or not you can be allergic to dust but not dust mites. If you…

April Showers Bring May… Allergies?

We have had gorgeous weekends here in Atlanta recently. Everyone and their kids and dogs have been out celebrating the Dogwood Festival and spending time at Piedmont Park. In between all this good weather have been bouts of heavy rain…

Block Spring Pollen Tips & HEPA Air Purifier Giveaway

Spring allergy season is fully upon us in many parts of the country. Locally, Atlanta has seen an average pollen count of 2,624 for each of the last nine days! As usual tree pollen is the primary culprit early in…

Off to Costa Rica! Allergy & Asthma Travel Tips

I am headed off to enjoy the sunshine, beach and rainforests of Costa Rica! We will be traveling to the Guanacaste region where it will be dry with little rain during this time of year. This is also means I…

Out With the Snow, In With the Pollen!

Despite the wind and snow that has continually harassed much of the country this winter, for many areas of the country, spring is here! Personally, every year I definitively mark the start of spring here in Atlanta, and that day…

Best Plants for Gardening with Allergies

Now is the time to start planning your gardens, whether they are in your backyard, in pots on your porch or planters on your window sill! It

Welcoming a Baby into the Family

In the first month of 2014, a lot has already happened. Amongst the news about the ‘polar vortex’ and political drama, my family and I will be welcoming a new family member! My older brother in Mexico City and his…

Tax Time!

PowerRecipes with Rachel – French Toast

One Saturday morning, Marsha and I decided to make a breakfast of champions – French Toast, fresh-squeezed orange juice and bacon. We had our grocery list ready with bread, bacon, eggs, cinnamon, oranges, and almond milk. ‘Why almond milk?’ I…

Allergies Worse During Winter?

Well, yesterday, I had written a very nice, long post about wintertime allergies, but alas, technology was not kind to me at all yesterday. So here is take two. _Over the last couple of weeks, it has become increasingly apparent…