Allergy – Allergy Health Issues News & Articles by HealthTree

Plant pollination occurs every spring, summer, and fall. The pollen grains released by trees, grasses, and weeds cause illness and suffering in over 40 million Americans. Pollen forecasts measure the amount and types of pollen present in the air, providing allergy sufferers the knowledge of when to avoid being outside.
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No matter what food allergy you have it will play havoc with your health. It is completely unreal to me how many problems you run into when you have to avoid one food. I’ve mentioned my onion allergy which is somewhat random but after I made breakfast this morning (eggs and toast if you were [...]

Latex is something most people take for granted. Your doctor and dentist wear latex gloves when treating you and the versatile stuff is in lots of common products like balloons, toys, pacifiers, bandages, adhesive tape, and condoms. However, if you have a latex allergy it can be very serious.
Mild Latex allergy symptoms:

Coughing
Hives
Itchy eyes
Rash
Sneezing

Severe latex allergy [...]

I hate how I can never seem to go outside during the spring without sneezing and having itchy eyes, yet my best friend can be outside all day and never have any symptoms. Why do some people experience allergies, while others seem to be fine during pollen season? And what can I do to control [...]

I’ve mentioned before that as a student I had serious health problems as a result of allergens in my old school. By old school I don’t mean the school I went to before I mean the building was old. My dad went to school there. My problems as an adult teacher weren’t as severe because [...]

This article talks about what triggers hay fever and what to do about it. Hay fever actually doesn’t have anything to do with hay, nor does it cause a fever—in fact, it’s another common name for a pollen allergy. As anyone with allergies knows, they can greatly affect your everyday life, but fortunately, there are [...]

When parents and students think about that first week away from home in the brand new college dorm there are lots of worries. Parents worry that their child will be influenced to do things they wouldn’t approve of, that they won’t study, that they’ll sleep through that early class. Students are worried about finding parties, [...]

Let’s talk for a bit about food allergies. One of the most common and well known, today anyway, is the gluten allergy. I actually had no idea such a thing existed until several years ago when one of my co-workers discovered by accident that she was in fact allergic to gluten and that consuming gluten [...]

I’ve had mold allergies for years. I feel really torn after reading this because running the air conditioner and dehumidifier all the time would definitely cut down on the mold in my house, but it would use so much electricity and really raise my carbon footprint. I don’t want to contribute to global warming but [...]

I tell everyone my husband is allergic to mosquitoes. Why? Because each bite swells up to about the size of a quarter and makes his health go downhill faster than you can say, well…mosquito. In addition to the normal itching the site of the bite gets painful and if he has more than one or [...]