Help!!! My allergies are killing me.....?

Question

I am suffering much more this year than usual and need some ideas on good OTC, herbal or home remedy for severe hayfever symptoms: Sneezing, itching watering eyes,ears, nose, throat, face, mouth, arms. Everything itches and my Claritin just isn't working at all. My lungs feel tight, and it makes me tired just from trying to breath. PLEASE......
Can anyone suggest a good medication, home remedy or herbal to help relieve my misery???? My doc wants me to go to an allergist for shots 3x's a week and I'd much rather try other things first.

Answer 1

Although allergy shots might help taking powder Easter-c will help (in me the only thing that helped is powder NOW brand Carrys it)Take as much as your body needs Example take 5000 mg at one time.If no running stowls up it until you do.Then reduce until bowels are fine that how much you need.You cant get too much.It acts as a anti-histamine.It will never stop working.You can take 5000mg when you get a attack and take a 1000mg every hour.

Answer 2

Allavert worked better for my son than Claritin. Don't know why, but it did. Maybe your body is now immune to the Claritin. Have you asked your doctor about Flonase? It is a nasal spray that is prescription allergy medication. Not to be confused with stuff like Afrin. Flonase takes about 3-4 days to start working, but it gets in your system and then you take it everyday. Ask your doctor about it or you can google it to find out more info.

Meanwhile, make sure you are changing your furnace/heat/air filter in your home every month. Vaccum often and consider investing in a good air purifier for your bedroom. Actually, it doesn't have to be an expensive one if you do your homework and find out what consumers say about different brands. My son has a Hamilton Beech (I think it's that or Holmes) in his room and it probably costs less than $50, but the filters are like $13 at Walmart (eek!). Filters are supposed to last 3 months though.

Answer 3

find some honey from as close to where you live as possible. Honey has natural antibodies against what is giving you allergies--plants and flowers. I learned this from an indian woman when I lived in new mexico and my lil girl was very ill. I gave her honey- about a tablespoon-- three times a day. You wont get results the same day but i always feel better within 3 days of starting honey regiment.

Answer 4

Indoor allergens typically peak during the winter months due to lesser ventilation as our homes tend to be more "closed up" against the winter elements.

Allergy sufferers begin looking for solutions, usually in the form of OTC medication, allergy clinics, physicians, etc. These common efforts may or may not provide relief to sufferers, but do provide billions of dollars in revenue to many different industries.

The three best and most cost effective means to address, your described allergy problem, requires a little effort by you and others who suffer likewise.

1). Knowledge and education
2). Source control (aka, avoidance, reduction, removal)
3). Ventilation

Educating the public of the ill-health effects of indoor air pollution is now the #1 concern of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (the EPA). Visit the EPA's new (2007) website (www.noattacks.org).

Control the source(s). Through knowledge and education people can begin to integrate new housekeeping practices. Remove dust collecting clutter, ban pets from certain areas, learn what the ingredients are in the household cleaning products and personal hygiene products, use exhaust fans when cooking or showering to remove fumes and moisture. Bedrooms contain the most allergens and are literally, a "dumping ground" and a "breeding ground" for allergens.

When people come home from work, school, or play, they generally head straight to their bedrooms to change clothes. Many outdoor allergens and allergens from other homes, schools, and workplaces are inadvertently transported inside our homes on clothes, coats, hats, hair, shoes, etc. Our mattresses, where we spend one-third of our lives, are an ideal micro-habitat that allows dust mites to live, thrive, and breed. Snug and cozy, under our bedcovers, the warmth and humidity that our bodies emit provide a man-made miniature ecosystem, regardless of where we live, what the indoor humidity is, or how well we keep and maintain our homes.

The air in our homes is 2 to 5 times worse than outdoor air and sometimes as much as 100 or even 500 times worse! Ventilating indoor air to the outside and introducing "fresh" air from outdoors can help "clear the air" tremendously.

Implement the above three solutions before wasting money on the gimmicks aggressively advertised to us as "end all/cure all" solutions. None of the products actually "attack" the sources and truly offer only "band-aid" relief. Learn of the negative impact on our indoor air quality from the use of air purifiers (they are numerous), dust mite allergens (DMA's) are continuously wafting throughout our homes for 2 hours at a time until they settle on top of our dust mite-proof bedding. Even the "Consumer Report's" top ranked vacuum cleaners equipped with HEPA filters failed miserably when recently tested by an independent 3rd party using a scientifically calibrated air particle counter. Each time the top ranked vacuum cleaners were powered up, the air particle counter zoomed skywards!

Don't fret yet. There are some products that really do help, but will ONLY help, when used in conjunction with the three best solutions above.

Micro-fiber cloths for dusting are much better than an old tee-shirt or feather duster. Costly HEPA filters for central air/central heat units are effective for catching a small percentage of airborne particulates. The Pledge commercial alludes to trapping dust mites...but so would any organic cleaner and without introducing chemicals propelled by an aerosol. Then there's medications...all kinds of medications and costly, but even they do not attack the source.

Visit the link below for homeowner tips. It's a no cost, no download, ebook titled "76 Tips to Reduce Dust Mites and Indoor Allergens"

http://www.sterilmattress.com/ebook_dust_mite_removal_tips.html

Answer 5

Look on line for sites with accupressure points for sinus releif. Those should help.

Answer 6

hello
allergies are immune system dysfunction .
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Answer 7

Mangosteen!

Mangosteen has anti-allegenic effects, anti-histamine effects, anti-inflammatory effects, anti-oxident effects and NO major side effects.

Mangosteen is a powerful natural fruit supplement.

Drugs are dangerous and foods, as supplements, are not.

http://www.goxanthones.com

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