{"id":5710,"date":"2010-08-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5710"},"modified":"2010-08-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T00:00:00","slug":"total-allergen-load-ragweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/total-allergen-load-ragweed\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Allergen Load and Ragweed Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=justify>At AchooAllergy.com, we frequently discuss the concept of <a href=' http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/total-allergen-load-concept.asp'>total allergen load<\/a>. Basically, the theory suggests that once a certain threshold of allergen exposure and other factors is reached (and this is different for various individuals), symptoms appear. A recent article in <a href=' http:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/198188.php' target='_blank'>Medical News Today<\/a> confirms this theory. <\/p>\n<p>The study, published in the <i>Annals of Allergy, Asthma &#038; Immunology<\/i>, talks about how hay fever during ragweed season is &#8216;more miserable for those with dog, cat, or dust mite allergies.&#8217; This is because year-round allergies &#8216;pre-prime&#8217; the immune system to react during seasonal allergies.  This causes symptoms to hit harder. <\/p>\n<p>Researchers set out to discover why some people with hay fever react more than others when ragweed season begins.  Lead author of the study, allergist Anne K. Ellis, MD explains, &#8216;People with hay fever react differently when ragweed allergy season arrives. Some start sneezing right away, and others don&#39;t, so we wanted to determine what makes certain people develop symptoms more quickly.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The outcome, fully in line with the idea of total allergen load, was, as Dr. Ellis put it: &#8216;On average, those who tested positive for cat, dog or dust mite allergies developed symptoms either faster than, or to a greater degree than those who tested negative for those allergies.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>This underscores the need for environmental control measures when it comes to allergies and where our products can be most beneficial to allergy and asthma sufferers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At AchooAllergy.com, we frequently discuss the concept of total allergen load. Basically, the theory suggests that once a certain threshold of allergen exposure and other factors is reached (and this is different for various individuals), symptoms appear. A recent article&hellip; <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/category\/allergies\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Allergies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}