Allergy tips
Allergy & Asthma-Friendly Toys for the Holidays
Kids loves stuffed animals, but these plush toys provide the perfect habitats for dust mites. You can kill the dust mites by placing the toys in direct sunlight for three hours or placing them in the freezer for 24 hours.…
Top Food Allergy Suspects
Ventura County Star reports on the top food allergy suspects: Wheat, Gluten: Watch out for some brands of hot dogs and ice cream; imitation crab meat; Asian dishes that contain wheat flour shaped to look like beef, pork and shrimp.…
Increasing Allergies Lead to More Pets in Shelters
In a rawstory.com article, a German journalist reports that about 10 percent of the German population is allergic to house pets. ‘From a medical standpoint the best thing to do is give the pet away,’ says Anja Schwalfenberg of Germany's…
To Your Health: Air Purifiers for Allergies & MCS
In the Austin Chronicle, health expert James Heffley, Ph.D., answers a reader's question about air purifiers: Heffley states that ‘the choice of air purifier depends on which allergen needs to be removed’ and that ‘unfortunately, the most aggressively advertised models,…
Falling Leaves, Rising Allergies
The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (AAAAI) offers tips on avoiding seasonal allergy triggers this fall: Don’t mow your lawn or rake leaves, which can stir up pollens and molds. If possible, hire someone to do your fall…
Childhood Pets May Decrease Allergies
Yahoo! News reports that a new study supports the theory that growing up with a pet trains the immune system to be less reactive to potential allergy triggers. The study found that pet owners have a one-third lower risk of…
Dust Mite Allergy? Clean Your Fish Tank Area!
We all know that many allergic children cannot have dogs, cats, or other furry animals as pets…but did you know that dust mites thrive in the moist environment surrounding a fish tank? Dust mites also love fish food; as a…
The Benefits of an Air Purifier in a Child’s Room
We have a ten month old daughter who has slept very well from an early age. One of the factors I attribute to this is the air purifier we placed in her room. One of the positive side effects of…
Extreme Summer Heat Sends Allergy Sufferers Indoors
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that this summer's heat is causing many allergy sufferers to stay indoors
Natural Allergy Treatments
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Honeycomb for Hay Fever
Joan and Lydia Wilen, authors of Folk Remedies That Work, claim that honeycomb works as a desensitizer and anti-allergen. They advise that hay fever sufferers should chew local honeycomb for 10 to 15 minutes twice a day about, starting about…
Animal Allergy Tips
Central Jersey's Home News Tribune offers the following tips for managing animal allergies: Keep your pet confined to one room of the house
Acupressure Treatment for Allergies
News Target reports that according to a Harvard Medical School study, stress and negative emotions are associated with allergies. Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a form of do-it-yourself acupressure that delivers a distinctive, drug-free approach to treating allergies. Gary Craig,…
Milk Allergy & ADHD
I recently read this compelling tale of how a mother discovered a link between milk allergy and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in her daughter. Milk is often touted as the perfect food. It does a body good, right? Apparently,…
Summer Allergy Coping Strategies
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Severe Food Allergies in Children
Seven-year-old Nathanael Lockwood of Cloquet, MN, is allergic to foods containing soy, tree nuts, legumes, eggs, and dairy products. He has never been to a fast-food restaurant. His parents have to wipe down theater seats before he sits down. They…
Kids with Asthma Usually Have Significant Allergies Too
Health News Digest reports that asthma affects more than 6.2 million children, and many of those kids experience significant allergies as well. Allergen avoidance through environmental control is the best defense against allergies. Mike Tringale, director of marketing and communications…
Ion Generators: Air Purifiers that Pollute the Air
‘Here's how to create your own personal Stage 2 Smog Alert: Buy an [ionic] indoor air purifier.’ Thus begins the MSNBC.com article which reports that air ionizers can generate ozone levels in a room that exceed the worst smog days…
Read This & Live Longer
The May 2006 issue of Esquire magazine contains a special insert: The Body Manual: Read This & Live Longer. The Body Manual draws attention to pervasive modern pollution, especially particulate matter less than ten microns in diameter (PM-10) that gets…
How Polluted is the Air in Your City?
According to a recent American Lung Association report, Atlanta and Birmingham are tied for the 9th Worst in the nation when in comes to particle pollution. On the positive side, for the second year in a row, Atanta avoided the…
Simple Ways to Make Your Home Healthier
This morning on The Today Show Rosemary Ellis of Prevention magazine talked about simple ways to make your home healthier. Since carpeting is a haven for allergens, then the ideal floor for the allergy sufferer would be made of wood,…
You Don’t Have to Take Medicine All the Time
USA Today reports that as the allergy epidemic grows, more allergy sufferers are seeking out alternative medicine treatments. Despite the growing popularity of alternative treatments, most members of the medical community are still skeptical. ‘When a patient asks me whether…
The Today Show Offers Allergy Advice
This morning The Today Show offered viewers advice about dealing with allergies. As many as 50 million Americans suffer from allergies, and this year allergy season is hitting some places especially hard because of the relatively mild winter. _Host Matt…
Q&A with Dr. Keith Phillips
Dr. Keith Phillips, an associate professor of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and a specialist in allergy and immunology, recently spoke to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about allergy symptoms in children, the impact of pet dander in the home,…
Random Allergy Tips
Random Allergy Tip #19Up to 50% of all household dust can be found on shelves, so try to keep indoor shelves to a minimum. Eliminating shelves can help reduce the over-all surface area and make your cleaning job easier. Random…
Random Allergy Tips
Random allergy tip #16Dust regularly to cut down on allergy symptoms. If you have severe dust allergies, wear a mask. Use electrostatically charged dusting cloths which trap dust instead of simply spreading it around. Random allergy tip #24Alcohol can stimulate…
Short and Sweet Allergy Tips
Rolling the dice in the allergy tip bank: Random allergy tip #22If your child has allergies, don’t let them take a non-washable stuffed animal to bed. These are breeding grounds for dust mites. Substitute a washable stuffed animal or cotton…