How to ease the season of sneeze
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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Your eyes are stingy, red, and watery, and you’ve been sneezing in brutal, unyielding succession for the last three hours. You don’t know whether to laugh, cry, or curse the heavens as you use your shirtsleeves to soak up the infinite stream of snot that is oozing out of your raw, irritated, nostrils.
Nearly 35 million people suffer from seasonal allergy attacks due to the pollen from grass, flowers, trees, and plants. Unfortunately, according to Pollen.com parts of the Willamette Valley (Eugene, Salem) routinely have the highest pollen counts in the country. So, what can allergy-disabled people do that will help curb their seasonal attacks in an effective, natural, cost-friendly, way?
The number one way to relieve allergy attacks is to simply avoid allergens. Here are some ways that Stretcher.com suggests you do to minimize your allergy symptoms while maximizing your outdoor enjoyment.
• Stay indoors during peak pollen hours (5 to 10 a.m.)
• Change clothes. When you come in from outside, change your clothes and take a quick shower. Have children change clothes when they come in from playing.
• Don’t dry your laundry outside.
• Bathe your pets often.
• Monitor pollen counts. Dry, windy days, especially after a rain, can be a nightmare for allergy sufferers.
• Wear a mask or filter when you mowing your lawn.
For some sufferers, because of their jobs or the severity of their allergies, it is not realistic to just avoid allergens. According to an article by Karen M. Davis, N.D., posted on Heartspring.net, there are a number of cheap and natural ways people can beat down their allergies.
• Drink more water. Lots of water will thin out your mucous and hydrate you mucous membrane tissues.
• Add more Anti-inflammatory foods to your diet. Try ground flax-seed, walnuts and hempseed. Mixing these foods with fish oil supplements can help decrease the inflammation in your nasal passages.
• Jelly in the nose. Dab a little non-petroleum in the nostrils to help catch and cancel out the effects of pollen.
• Cut back on Mucus forming foods. Red meat, eggs, wheat, and chocolate.
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