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Immunotherapy for Allergies
If you’ve tried allergy medication and eliminating allergens as much as possible from your life but continue suffer with allergies, you may want to consider immunotherapy. Understanding Immunotherapy Immunotherapy is a process of receiving injections with your particular allergen(s) so that your body will produce antibodies to ward of your reaction to them. The doctor will start [...]
Continue reading...Gluten Allergies
Friday, August 14, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...I’m Not Crying
Friday, August 7, 2009
I swear you’d think I was the biggest crybaby in the entire world the way people sometimes look at me. As a matter of fact I’m not the kind of bird that cries at all around other people. But to look at my eyes sometimes you’d never know that. I use to get sooo tired [...]
Continue reading...Undiagnosed Allergies
Thursday, July 23, 2009
My children have severe food allergies to peanuts, although I am not allergic. Allergy testing is vital for keeping kids healthy and working with your doctor to have a game plan. Other parents should have their children tested for food allergies and other serious allergies. Hopefully someday, a cure for all allergies will be found! [...]
Continue reading...Exhaustion and Allergy Symptoms
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
As I mentioned in a previous post, when my allergies are flaring I have a lot of trouble sleeping. How is this for irony…when I can’t sleep my allergy symptoms get worse. So let’s say I’m having a bout of insomnia (yeah, I suffer from that sometimes too…don’t you want to be me?) Or heck, [...]
Continue reading...No Sleep: The Hidden Allergy Symptom
Monday, July 13, 2009
When I’m having a really bad allergy flare up, there is something that is more frustrating than my sneezing and sniffling and increased Kleenex purchases. I am able to get almost no sleep. People who have had a really bad head cold may understand, although there symptoms are temporary. When my allergies are really acting [...]
Continue reading...Bichon Frisé and Allergy Free
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Hypoallergenic dogs are great choices for people allergic to pet dander. Just because you are allergic to dogs doesn’t mean you can’t have a dog. I have a hypoallergenic Bichon Frisé and no asthma symptoms, although I am allergic to most other dogs and all cats. You can find more information on pet dander in this [...]
Continue reading...Allergy Medications and Cold Season
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
I have had one heck of a week. My son started getting sick Friday. Little bit of a runny nose, nothing too horrible. By Friday night he had a full blown fever. When he woke up at 4:30 a.m. his fever was close to 102, he was all kinds of snotty, and totally hysterical (a [...]
Continue reading...Which Comes First?
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Got allergies? You may be depressed at the same time, but one may or may not be causing the other. It’s a, “which came first; the chicken or the egg,” thing. Are my allergies causing my depression because I’m not sleeping? Or am I not sleeping (thereby causing a decrease in my immune system) because [...]
Continue reading...Seasonal Allergies at School
Monday, June 8, 2009
As a student I suffered most of my academic career with seasonal allergies and allergy induced asthma. Of course I didn’t find out that was why I was always sick until I was an adult. My experiences as a child were useful later, however. When I grew up I became a teacher. Because of what [...]
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
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