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allergy season has been identified as the worst in recent years by the enormous amount of pollen that is loose in there, as a result of one of the toughest winters. There are thousands of drugs and products that promise to relieve your allergies, but there are remedies and natural alternatives that you can use to calm your stop congestion and sneezing.
As always want to try alternative remedies, you should consult your doctor, some supplements may interfere with or nullify the effect of any medication you take regularly.
Vitamin D
Vitamin D is essential for muscle strength and prevent cancer, diabetes and autoimmune diseases. It is also estimated that protects against asthma and allergies. Doctors recommend taking 2,000 international units of vitamin D if your levels are low. Vitamin D is also found naturally in sunlight, in egg yolk, herring and cod liver oils.
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During the mornings and evenings the amount of pollen and allergens that are found in the environment increases. Try to keep your home windows closed during those hours, and also avoids jogging or walking. If you walk in the street during these hours, take a shower as soon as you get home to remove particles and allergens that may have lodged in your clothes, skin or hair. The same with your pets, try to give your dog a bath so they do not bring pollen into your home.
Rinocornio
Once you go out and breathe your mucous membranes can accommodate pollen, resulting in a series of unbearable sneezing and congestion. To remove any allergen that has crept into your nose, use a few drops of saline or rinocornio.
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Seafood is, next to the fish, one of the largest number of foods that cause allergies.
The kind of seafood allergy occurs most often are crustaceans, ie seafood “leg” from shrimp to lobster, through prawns, langoustines, crabs … Next in frequency mollusks, bivalves where we have, “the shellfish” (mussels, clams, oysters), gastropods (snails, periwinkles / Mincha) and cephalopods (squid, cuttlefish, octopus).
Even those allergic to shellfish may react to fish has not been shown cross-reactivity between these foods. If mites are known to have proteins similar to shellfish so that mite-allergic patients have an increased risk of allergic reactions to shellfish than those who are not.
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WHAT ARE THE DUST MITES?
Dust mites are tiny microscopic animals (measure approximately 0.3 mm) related to spiders (arthropods) living in nearly all parts of the world, preferring temperate zones and high relative humidity.
Their most common habitat is the powder inside the houses. As depend on the humidity and somewhat phobic to light, his favorite places to live are mattresses, pillows, stuffed animals, carpets, etc..
These places are also one of their favorite foods, such as human skin scales and animal.
Their depositions, and various parts of your body contain the volatilized particles and make contact with the mucosa (lining) occur in nasal and bronchial inflammation that they result in allergic rhinitis or bronchial asthma.
Unlike pollens, seasonality is less marked and are found all year round, especially in humid areas like the coast where its concentration (with exceptions) is much higher than in inland locations where the climate is drier.
Despite this difference between the coast and the drier areas in Chile is also prevalent in cities where the houses indoor damp or they exist in conditions that favor its growth such as carpets, stuffed animals, books, plants, etc.