How can I get relief from my allergies?
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Are you feeling that tingling in the back of your throat? Are your eyes itchy and watery? Are you having sneezing fits? Along with blooming flowers and April showers come those telltale allergy symptoms! I find that my allergies get especially bad on nice days, those days that are too nice to stay indoors and keep the house all clammed up! (I’ll admit, with the hammock out in our yard, it’s especially hard to resist the siren song of spring on those sunny days.) Nobody wants to live in a bubble, and suffering from allergies is the alternative. Or is it?
It turns out that if you suffer from allergies and ask a friend (or ask on Answers!) for possible remedies, everyone has their own. These range from family traditions to pharmaceutical options to improvements in technology. In my family, there is always something you can eat to cure what ails you. While I’m not always a hundred percent receptive to my father’s “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”-esque, old-country cures, I’ll concede this-local honey really does the trick for my allergies. We’re lucky to have honey made from the pollen in the neighborhood orchard a short walk from our house, but if you don’t have that sort of arrangement, honey from 15-25 miles from your home should also do the trick. I’m not a big fan of honey by the spoonful, so I dissolve it in a cup of my morning tea.
If you can’t stomach the honey, or you want to stage a multiple-front assault on your allergies, try a neti pot. If the idea of irrigating your sinuses offends your delicate sensibilities, don’t dismiss the neti right away. If you ask me, it’s the underdog solution for all sorts of ailments, and incredibly cost-effective when you compare the cost of the neti pot and solution (usually just salt and warm water) to its counterparts. Still grossed out? I understand; the Neti isn’t for everyone. A vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter can also help to alleviate some seasonal allergies, but that is contingent on diligent and regular vacuuming.
Are your allergies especially severe? Perhaps an over-the-counter antihistamine is in order; but you should be careful when taking those, as some of them can make you drowsy or have interactions with other medications you might be taking. If your allergies are especially heinous, you should speak to your doctor (or allergist) and see what they can do for you.
What do YOU do for allergy relief?
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are you rodney stranger?
that hamster scares the crap out of me
I developed allergies in my twenties. It was so dire that I went to a specialist. An ears, eyes, nose and throat. Allergy was not a specialty then. Antihistamines were about all that was available except for avoidance. Later in life I was treated with steroidals that changed my life. After years of treament and careful avoidance, I have little allergy problems and can even indulge in some previous allergy substances.
I use Golden seal, its an herbal medicine that can be
purchased at most stores in the pharmacy area, I personaly go to Walmart to get mine
Get an allergy shot
I would reccommend using Piriton, It works wonders for myself and i have alergfies too the ozone, as i react to different things outside, it also works wonders for my childre, and can be bought in syrup of tablet form,
Piriton Syrup is colourless syrup. Each 5 ml of syrup contains 2 mg of chlorphenamine maleate as the active ingredient. The syrup also contains sucrose, glycerol, ethanol, tingle flavour, peppermint oil, water and, as preservative, a mixture of methyl, ethyl and propyl hydroxybenzoates (E218, E214 and E216). Each bottle contains 150 ml of syrup.
What Does It Do?
The syrup contains the active ingredient chlorphenamine maleate. Chlorphenamine belongs to a group of drugs called antihistamines which help relieve the symptoms of some allergies and itchy skin rashes.
The syrup is used to treat the allergic symptoms (runny and itchy nose, with or without stuffiness) caused by hayfever and other allergies e.g. pet and house dust mite allergies. It relieves the itchiness, redness, swelling, tenderness and irritation associated with many allergic skin problems.
You can take the syrup for things like:
• hayfever and other allergies e.g. pet, house dust mite and mould spore allergies
• nettle rash and hives
• skin allergies and dermatitis
• prickly heat and heat rash
• allergic reactions to food, food additives or medicines
• insect bites and stings
• the itchy rash of chickenpox
Many children find syrup formulations easier to take than tablets.
How To Use
Do not take the syrup if you:
• Are allergic to antihistamines or to any of the ingredients listed above.
• Have taken drugs for depression called monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI) within the last 14 days.
Please see your doctor before you take the syrup if you:
• Have epilepsy, glaucoma, an enlarged prostate, an overactive thyroid, very high blood pressure, or heart, liver or chest disease.
• Are taking medicines to treat anxiety or to help you sleep.
• Are taking any medicine containing phenytoin for epilepsy.
Taking the medicine with food and drink:
• As with other antihistamines the effects of alcohol may be increased.
Pregnancy and breast feeding:
• Medicines should not be used during pregnancy, or breast feeding, without seeking advice from a doctor.
Driving and using machines:
• If the syrup makes you feel drowsy, do not drive or operate machinery.
Important information about some of the ingredients of the syrup:
• The syrup contains sucrose. Diabetics should take care when using the syrup. Long term use of the syrup could increase the risk of tooth decay, so clean your teeth regularly. If you have been told by your doctor that you have an intolerance to some sugars, contact your doctor before taking the syrup.
• The product contains 6.3% v/v ethanol (alcohol), i.e. up to 515 mg per adult dose, equivalent to 13 ml beer, 6 ml wine per dose. Harmful for those suffering from alcoholism. To be taken into account in pregnant and breast feeding women, children and high-risk groups such as patients with liver disease or epilepsy.
• Methyl, ethyl and propyl hydroxybenzoates (E218, E214 and E216) may cause allergic reactions (possibly delayed).
Dose
Use the two-headed spoon provided with the syrup.
Children aged 1-2 years:
1 x 2.5 ml. Maximum daily dose: 2 x 2.5 ml spoonfuls in 24 hours.
Children aged 2-6 years:
1 x 2.5 ml every 4-6 hours. Maximum daily dose: 6 x 2.5 ml spoonfuls in 24 hours.
Children aged 6-12 years:
1 x 5 ml every 4-6 hours. Maximum daily dose: 6 x 5 ml spoonfuls in 24 hours.
Adults and children aged over 12:
2 x 5 ml every 4-6 hours. Maximum daily dose: 12 x 5 ml spoonfuls in 24 hours.
Children under 12 months:
Not recommended.
If symptoms persist consult your doctor.
If you take more syrup than you should:
If you (or someone else) swallow more than the recommended dose, or if you think a child has accidentally swallowed more than the recommended dose, contact your nearest hospital casualty department or your doctor immediately. Do not drive if it is you that has taken too much. Take the syrup with you so that the doctor can see what has been taken.
If you forget to take the syrup:
If you forget to take the syrup, take a dose as soon as you remember, unless it is nearly time to take the next one. Never take two doses together. Take the remaining doses at the correct time.
I have struggled all my life with allergy: dust, feathers, pollen and cat (and I have a cat d’oh!), and most of my family has as well. My dad was cured by giving up wheat: this made him less irritable and took away his hayfever. I can’t think of any logical reason why. My brother tried this, to no avail. They both took Plantago, a herbal remedy, which was expensive and useless (like most herbal remedies in general, unless one believes in them).
I have tried with herb after herb, even seen herbal therapists etc. Every one of them has a different idea of what will definitely cure me. None of them worked. One of them worked on my brother, think it was Valerian. But it doesn’t work any more on him.
Local honey I have tried as well. I can’t think of any reason why it would work: ingesting nectar and bee spit when it’s the pollen that bothers you. But it works for some and it’s worth a try.
There are some horrible medicines out there, and I hate nasal sprays but if you can stomach them, they’re pretty good apparently – they work well for the same brother that the valerian worked on. I have taken anti histamines and they make the problem go right away – but it is important to be able to produce histamine in case you become ill, so I wouldn’t take them too regularly.
I guess there is something to suit everyone. If something works, stick with it until it doesn’t I guess! Showering regularly and wearing sunglasses, and keeping a good supply of eyedrops in the fridge is my current method, and I do take an antihistamine if it gets bad. But then I guess I’m pretty fussy because I don’t believe in herbal remedies but I don’t want to destroy my immune system either!
Good luck to everyone…allergies are pretty horrible…but one must live with them. In these times medicine is doing suh a good job of keeping us alive that we get weaker and weaker by the generation.
That’s funny. I was just looking up home remedies for Sinus headaches, and when Spring comes around..my headaches get really horrible. They are symptoms of my allergies, I suppose.
I tried a menthol steam inhalation method to clear up my sinuses and it helped a lot for a while. Just boil some water, add some small slices of lemon and add some menthol balm into the water and cover yourself with a blanket and inhale the steam. It helps clear up all the particles clogging your sinuses.
It is also temporary relief, because the pain comes back again. If there’s anyone out there who has a permanent relief, please post it here.
One thing that you can do is when you see your
allerigist, ask if you can get an injection of keenalog.
Keenalog is administered just once a season, and works so much better than going to the doctor weekly
or bi- weekly for the allergy shots. 24 hours after getting keenalog administered, you’ll have NO symptems for the remainder of the allergy season.
I’ve had this many seasons and in my opinion it;s
the best medication available.
You should talk to an allergist about doing skin prick testing to see what specifically you are allergic to and then, if you want, they can desensitize you to those allergens by giving you a shot each month. The whole process takes about 3 – 5 years, but after that you are no longer allergic to that allergen at all and the success rate is basically 100%!
Wear a mask. Probably your doctor is mainstream. So you will be told (like I was) that it’s allergies, pollen. NOT! The chemtrails have polluted our environment, there’s respiratory ailments, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, MS, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, AIDS, & much more. The American government has admitted this. Alex Jone’s Show on 4//09 was primarily about chemtrails. Look up & take notice!
Good and sensible doctors can get you relieved from allergies with simple medicines. But one must be fortunate to find a good doctor. Its becoming tough to find a good doctor, nowadays. All the best to all the patients, including me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I take singulair and flonase once a day and I get allergy shots every week-and I rarely notice any change in the two years I’ve been doing it
I love hot towels over my eyes when I have pressure there. I also stand in the shower with it extra warm, and that clears out my stuffy nose.
Ask the doctor for things like something to put in your throat and like up the nose
Every morning, eat local honey.
You can go to the store and ask for local hone
My advice to people with allergy?. Air-condition your car. If walking outside makes you start wheezing and sneezing, imagine what tearing through all those pollen clouds at 55 miles per hour is going to do. Be sensible and remember to use the air conditioner in your car. Of course, its not the same as letting the wind rip though your hair, but, remember, you’re doing it for your health.
Keep it clean. People with allergies fare better when dust and grime are kept to a minimum. Try not to use aerosol sprays or products containing harsh chemicals or odors that may irritate your airways. But your home will need more than a dusting with a dry cloth, which just propels allergens into the air. Instead, wipe down hard surfaces and floors with a slightly damp cloth. In humid areas, us a bleach solution. Bleach kills mold, and, unlike some other exotic (and potentially dangerous) chemicals, you can get it at the grocery store. Wipe down surfaces in your bathroom as needed. The label on Clorox bleach suggests that you clean floors, vinyl, tile, and your kitchen sink with a solution of 3/4 cup of Clorox bleach per gallon of water. Let it stand for 5 minutes and then rinse. Use a regular fungicide for tough locations, like the basement. Of course, dont use it on fabrics, or they’ll get bleached.
If your’e allergic to house dust, pet dander, or another common household allergen, get someone else to take care of cleaning that carpet, such as a teenager or a professional cleaning service. The cost of hiring a helper is a small price to pay to avoid an allergic reaction.
Buy throw rugs. Replace your carpets with throw rugs, and you’ll achieve two major benefits. First, you’ll eliminate your home’s biggest collector of dust, pollen, pet dander, and mold. Second, you’ll make keeping your home allergen-free much easier. Rugs CAN be washed at temperatures hot enough to kill dust mites. Also, the floors underneath-courtesy of a rug’s loose weave-stay cooler and drier, conditions distinctly hostile to mold and mites. Mites cant survive on a dry,polished floor, That kind of floor dries in seconds versus days for a steam-cleaned carpet.
Buy synthetic pillows. Dust mites like synthetic (Hollofil or Dacron) pillows just as much as those made from down and foam, but synthetic pillows have one major advantage: You can wash them in how water.
Minimize clutter. Dried flowers, books , stuuffed animals, and other homey touches collect dust and allergens. Try to keep knickknacks in closets or drawers or rid your home of them entirely.
Hope I helped
Allergy can be cured totally. You could take proper medications and measures to keep the problem at bay.
At home you can wear fresh clothes, your doormats and mattresses could be washed everyday, keep the kitchen clean of mosquitoes and cockroaches.
This way you can avoid the problem.
Incase of any further information you could visit this link and site: http://www.wonderdoctor.com/disease.php?cat=allergy
It has many remedies for all sorts of allergies. My mom prefers using this site for all sorts of information.
You probably need to get a nose spray, and just a pill to take every day, that’s what my dad does, and he has VERY bad allergies. You could wear a mask, but you do need fresh air. Ask a doctor if your not sure, or go online and search allergy medicine.
My allergies are so bad that I can hardly breath in the morning. I use Allegra and Abutorol inhaler, but this time of the year is the worst! For me it kicked in about a week ago. Just gotta ride it out for the next 2 months I guess. Good luck to everyone else. Hang in there!
John R
I normally remove all food sources from my diet, especially milk. And keep it to water (flouride free water that is).
For pollen allergies, I take raw local honey, not the pasteurized stuff from the other side of the planet.
For general health, I eat black cumin seeds or the oil.
I just try to remove all synthetic products or refined or pasteurized products other such manufactured products.
And I only noticed this after having to go without food, especially milk, being left with only black cumin seeds, wholemeal flour, honey and water.
Personally I like honey and bread (bread with black cumin seeds). And a cup of spring water. If I could get milk from a woman or a cow/goat directly, that would be nice too.
Omg. Yes. I have HORRIBLE allergies. My mom tells everyone that I’m her sicky. Right now, I am wheezing (asthma) really bad and I feel like freaking CRAP.
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Ive had allergies from the day i was born, and let me tell you, it has been a struggle. i am allergic to: cats, some dogs, grass, trees, pollen, dust, feathers, and many more. i can even go to my boyfriends house (who has a cat) without having an attack! i take weekly allergy shots, daily antihistamines (singular, zyrtec) and bennadryl whenever needed. when i am having an attach, i use cortizone on my excema and a cold washcloth on my irretated eyes. sometimes taking a shower helpa alot too.
I am allergic to so many things, even honey. Be careful of the herbal remidies, especially if you have outside allergies, herbal remedies can create more allergies or reactions. Not saying they are all bad. I have many food, outside and inside allergies. I use the generic zyertec. It does make you sleepy at first so I suggest taking it at night, but once your body builds a tolerance to it you are not sleepy any more. I love zyertec, it is a miricle drug too me.
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Works for my seasonal allergies. Works for my friends, although one reports that while good for strictly allergies was not effective with a cold.
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My allergies are SEVERE in summer time. Apparently I’m allergic to several of the grasses in the area.
Last year, my allergies had SIGNIFICANT changes on the first and last day of summer. I was actually quite surprised.
I typically don’t use anything except the Safeway anti-histamine stuff (SUPER CHEAP) when it gets really intense, as they tend to make me VERY sleepy for up to like 4-6hrs.
Allergy shots are just a little bit of what you are allergic to injected once a week. For some reason, the spike in the levels of the proteins in the allergen in the blood stream helps your immune system to figure out that those proteins are safe and you lose the allergy reaction to those proteins. When ever you eat something, the proteins in that food show up in your bloodstream in a spike much like an allergy shot so if you do not eat that food again for a few days, it is like getting an allergy shot for all the proteins in that food. They call such a diet a “restrictive rotational diet” and doing that diet for one month totally changed my life. When you get rid of some minor allergies, your immune system is more likely to figure out the stronger allergies too so all my many allergies have been going away over the years. Basically you need to find out what different foods are genetically related to each other and only eat foods in one genetic family on one day of the week (or one day in four if you want). The biggest family group is grasses which includes wheat, rice, corn, sugar cane, barley… and any foods made with grains or corn syrup or sugar cane… etc. This means you can only have bread on one day in four (or one day a week). Chicken and chicken eggs would go on the same day as bread too due to eggs being in bread and milk and beef also in that same day due to milk being in bread so I generally do not eat bread so I can eat other things more freely. I also specifically eat some of the foods I am allergic to (once a week or once in four days) to get that allergy shot equivalent to that allergy and I have gone from deathly allergic to some foods to being able to eat the food with only mild reactions that can be ignored just by eating a very small amount of that food I am allergic to on occasion. My allergy to animal hairs is also cured from petting animals at a pet store once a week and wearing a wool sweater on that day.
do not settle for covering up your allergy symptoms, cure them with this simple to understand technique (it can be harder then it sounds to do it right though). do not worry too much about breaking the diet on occasion… you just do not get the benefits of the diet on that week for that food when you break the diet.
Ive read all the comments about hay fever and for the 10,0000 time Ive been giving people the cure or prevention and very few have heard me. Im from Ireland and I was one of the worst cases of a hay fever sufferers you’ll ever meet in your life. In the summer of 2008 the doctors over here reported the worst
When we retired in the Navy in 1992, it was a havoc. I found out I had a bad case of allergies in the desert of Las Cruces, NM…My husband immediately took me to the doctor and I was prsecribed FOUGERA, an ointment that contained Vit. E –I had to coat my whole body with it since I had rash all over.
Then months passed and it wasn’t until my father in law’s friend who came over who told us about what we can do. The solution was find raw honey from the area and put it in whatever drink you may have: tea, coffee, lemonade, water or juice. We found raw honey and I ate it, drank it and put it all over my food. Try it!
After two months, my rash was gone and the allergies.
Also get the cream at Wallmart or Target…it says ANTI-ITCH cream..HYDROCORTISOME. Apply in all areas. It refreshes your skin and other minor irritations such as washing dishes and allergic to soap.
I was allergic for certain foods including pulses. So I started ingesting my own morning urine. I am observin AUT now and free ffrom all problems.AUT is free, easily available.No doctors advice is required.
My Grandson has bad allergies. He has had the
allergie tests where they stick him all over his back with needles. He has taken shots plus allergie meds. prescriped by the Dr he got some relief but now he is off all of that and we get him LOCAL
honey and he takes a tablespoon of honey every morning and night . As long as he takes his LOCAL honey his allergies don’t bother him at all.
Hope this helps you
i use nasonex but its presribed so maybe you could go see an peadetricion
you can also get desensitised now so have a look into that aswell
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I have really bad allergies. I’m allergic to many things indoor and outdoor. I’m suppose to have a mattress cover, vent covers, special air filters…the works! My allergist tells me to either take benedryl daily and buy these filters and covers…and not go outdoors between March and December (Jan and Feb are my months to be outside) for long periods of times…..
Or to get the weekly shots.
I am trying to do the Benedryl thing and it’s so annoying. I’m falling asleep a lot, and it doesn’t even work for my severe allergies (like right now I have a question up for how to help cure my plugged ears!).
This is my worst Sinus Allergy one (besides the time my nose bleeds with clots)…
2007 was my bad year for skin allergies (I had to change my laundry detergent and fabric choices)….
But anyways….
I would go to an allergist to find out what you are allergic to. It helps me figure out what I can and cannot be around, eat, or anything.
I found out I was allergic to things I didn’t believe I was allergic to!
(I found out the hard way about Bleu Cheese dressing!)
Dogs, Maple, Oak, Roaches, Dust, Dust Mites, ALL Mold, Nylon, the Sun/heat, rats, most grasses, ragweed, kitty litter (yet not cats!)…..
My list was LONG.
Good luck with all your allergies!
Pollen Allergies. I have the perfect answer. Requires no drugs and works in every state. My husband had severe pollen allergies. Used this system and now has very few if any allergy attacks. Other people I have told have done this and it really works.
Buy honey that is made in your area. Farm markets and local grower. Take one table spoon of honey each day, in cereal, tea etc. or just on the spoon. If you will do this your pollen allergies will all but disappear. Now this is not an immediate cure but over time. If you start this immediately you will see a difference in several months. Give it a try. What will it hurt. This is all natural and no drugs.
Take Clartin D-Clear
I usually take zyrtecd on a daily basis. it works better for my allergies. taking vitamin c on a daily basis works too.
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I use Zyrtec which makes me drowsy. Take it at night because it will make you drowsy. It is for indoor and outdoor allergies as well. It also helps you sleep if you have a stuffy nose or fluid in your ears.
Get away from the allergen. Beware as to everthing you may taste, feel, or smell; dumb me stepped on 1″ of metal. The antibiotic the hospital gave me(where I sswallowed 1 bpill in hospital) I’m allergic to. The pain I was expieriencing took everything off my mind, so for 4 days I took the pill I’m allergic to; I’m carrying big, red, blochey spots thatr itch to get all. Watch where & how you step, to NOT be given what you end up allergic to.