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Allergies are the immune system's hyped-up reaction to normally harmless foreign substances, or allergens. When these touch the lining of the nose the mucous membranes become inflamed, setting off symptoms. It takes more than pills to get relief. Some changes and fixes in your house as well as your habits are very important too. Here are some important things to consider:


1. Keep windows closed during allergy season, so pollen stays outside.

2. Cover your mattresses, pillows and box springs if your allergic to dust mites.

3. Use impermeable zip-up cases that trap the allergens. you may also want to remove wall to wall carpeting or plush rugs. Hard floors are less likely to harbor mites.

4. Don't mow the lawn or rake leave yourself - It can stir up pollens and molds,

5. Bathe pets more often during allergy season(if they go outdoors). Dogs and cats who roam through grass pick up allergenic pollen.

6. Consider showering and washing your hair- just before you go to bed. Otherwise pollen from your body and hair falls onto bed linens.

7. Don't wait till bedtime if you've been working outside. Take a shower, wash your hair, and change your clothes as soon as possible.

Considering these things can actually make a big difference to your everyday life.Take care of yourself follow these steps to prevent allergy

Skin asthma also known as atopic eczema or dermatitis, is an itchy, chronic skin condition that can develop early in childhood, and may persists until adult life. Some kids may also develop allergic rhinitis or even bronchial asthma. These two conditions, like skin asthma, involve hyper-reactivity of the persons immune system. All three often have a genetic component. There are times when the child is symptom-free. If exposed to trigger factors, the condition may flare up and require medication. Mild symptoms may not make an impact on his daily activities. but severe outbreaks may disrupt his schooling and sleep, and even affects his psychological and emotional well being. First, identify the trigger factors. Then teach him, family members, and caregivers to avoid these at all costs. The severity of the reaction needs to be assessed by a dermatologist. He will guide you as to initial remedies, depending on the degree of the flare up.

Potential Trigger Factors

1. Irritants = wool or synthetic clothing, soaps, detergents, perspiration, disinfectants, topical antimicrobial.
2. Inhalant allergens = House dust, mites, animal dander, cockroach, pollens, molds.
3. Contact allergens = Preservatives in topical medications, metals, latex.
   
4. Food = Cow's milk, eggs, peanuts, wheat, soya, fish and shellfish.
5. Environmental factors = Hard water, cooking with gas, proximity to rad traffic, environmental tobacco smoke.
6. Climate = Extreme temperature and humidity, and seasonal variation in the pattern of atopic eczema.
   

• Usually, emollients in the form of crams, lotions, and gels keep moisture in, and protect the commonly dry skin of patients with dermatitis. These are mostly over the counter preparations. These also keep irritants away by forming a barrier between the skin and the potential trigger factors.
• If the break out is more severe, your dermatologist may prescribed the use of mild but potent corticosteroids to be applied on the skin one to two times daily. Treatment is usually extended for about 48 hours. If the skin gets infected due to scratching, the doctor might prescribe additional antibiotics.
• Some kids respond to anti-allergy medications. These may be tried for a week or two, provided that it does not cause sleepiness during daytime.
• More serious conditions require extended or additional treatment. Medications that suppress the immune reaction of the skin may be prescribed. In difficult cases, bandaging, photheraphy, and systemic treatments are given.

Here are some slow motion pictures of why we shouldn't sneeze on public places!






Sneezing, or "sternutation" as it's also called, is your body's way of removing foreign matter from your nose and throat. There are other causes of sneezing, and a lot more to this seemingly simple act than you can imagine.

Sneezing isn't normally a sign that something serious is wrong with your body. It's commonly caused by allergies, irritants such as dust or smoke, using nasal sprays, drug withdrawal, and foreign objects in your nose.

Sneezing is a very big deal in terms of spreading virus, that's why we should cover our mouth when sneezing, or if we can, avoid sneezing in crowded places, to prevent others from being infected.

I'm a person who always catch a cold even after a wake up in the morning a started to sneeze, So I decided to visit my doctor and have a check up. The doctor said that I have a allergic rhinitis, it affects my nose when i catch allergens. my nose reacts when i smell pollen, dust, fur, mold and animals fur all are examples of allergen.

There are times that allergic rhinitis are seasonal, It also called hay fever. In this case runny nose happens. Sometimes you'll experience teary eyes, headache, congested nose, hot body temperature and itchiness of nose and eyes. Often our eyes are always affected if we suffer from allergic rhinitis, even though eyes are affected by allergic rhinitis our throat is not affected.

Decongestant and antihistamines are effective drugs for allergic rhinitis. And avoid dust, animal hairs, flowers who might cause allergy. If your allergic rhinitis is getting worst, immediately consult your doctor or a immunologist, allergist because people who suffer from this kind of disorder must undergo immune-therapy or desensitization. In this process a patient will be injected with allergen that the patient is allergic until the patient is immune with it.

Allergic rhinitis can be avoided by keeping a clean environment and a healthy lifestyle.

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Simple home tips to minimize allergic attacks

Preventing allergy specially in our own home is very important for our family's health and well being. Eliminate, as much as possible all the allergens you can, from your home, especially domestic animals and dust mites. Here are some simple home tips to minimize allergic attacks:

• Avoid exposure to cigarette smoke, dont let anybody to smoke inside your house specially if a member of the family has an allergy.
• Don't let an allergic person to have a excessive home exercise
• Don't let an allergic person to experience stress at your own home
• If the dust sensitive person is a child, avoid stuffed toys that accumulate dust. Use only washable toys made of wood, rubber, metal, or plastic and store them in a closed toy box.
• Add an air filter to reduce the levels of allergens in your home.
• Clean the room thoroughly and completely at least once a week, clean the floors, window frames and other parts of the house that accumulate dust. Clean it with a damp cloth, air the room thoroughly.
• Avoid to use upholstered furniture and venetian blinds. because they accumulate dust.
• Use only washable materials on the bed. Wash sheets frequently in water that is at least 130 F. Use Dacron mattress pad and pillows Avoid fuzzy wool blankets that trap dust.
  
• Keep animals with fur or feathers out of the room. People allergic to dust mites often allergic to cats, dogs and other animals.
• Remove fitted carpets specially shag carpets and replace with hardwood, tile or linoleum floors.
• Repeatedly treat all removable carpets with tannic acid to eliminate dust mites.
  

There are artificial foods that doctor's also suggest to eat or use to his patients, because there are some reason's why they suggest it. For example a diabetic patient, diabetic patients are often prohibit to eat foods that are rich in sugar, so how can a patient eat sweet foods, here the doctor advise the patient to use aspartame. Aspartame is a kind of artificial food that is alternative for sugar, like sugar it taste sweet.

But base on studies they have suspicion in the short term safety on using aspartame, because they receive medical complaints like allergic reaction hives and rashes, there are also complaints of behavioral disturbances like sleep disorder, hyper acidity, depression, loss of vision, headache, diarrhea abdominal pain, menstrual irregularities and intense thirst.

Another kind of artificial foods are fake fats, example of fake fats are simplesse and olestra. Fake fats are made for intentionally make calories we eat are less than fats. There are fake fats that are made from starch like corn starch, cellulose gel, whey and oat bran, there are also fake fats from the combination of sugar, protein and edible fatty acids from egg white and whey that can make make big molecules that is passing through digestive system without changes.

But the side effects of eating fake fats is the deficiency on fat soluble vitamins A and E.

In many instances, its hard for us to know if we have allergy in food that we eat or other things that surround us, because allergies also can be known in many ways.

Mild allergies like rash, itchy, watery eyes, and congestion do not spread in other parts of the body.

Moderate allergies like difficultly breathing migraine and itchiness are a symptom that affects other parts of the body.

Severe allergic reactions like vomiting, cramps, diarrhea, mental confusion and dizziness, abdominal pain and varying degrees of swellings that can make breathing and swallowing difficult. Are rare life –threatening emergency in which sudden response of the body to the allergen affects the whole body.

Symptoms of allergies like rashes, hives, joint pain, mimicking arthritis, headaches can be cause too by other health disorder.

The most common food that most people got their allergies are milk, egg, seafood, wheat, nuts seeds, chocolate, orange, and tomato.

Some allergies symptoms can not be seen on babies because their intestine are not that mature, in their seventh month some of the symptoms can be seen.

Migraines are also example of reactions that we get in food that we eat, because it has tryamine, phenethylamine, monosoduim glutamate, and also sodium nitrate. Examples of food that has chemical like this are chocolate, aged cheese, sour cream, red wine, pickled herring, chicken livers, avocado, cured meats and ripe banana.

Migraines cause by allergies can be cured successfully by just taking supplements particularly Vitamin B and niacin.