What Role Does Vitamin C Play in Allergy Symptoms
Vitamin C has long been celebrated as a cornerstone of holistic health and wellness practices. Abundantly present in fruits and vegetables, vitamin C serves many benefits, including: One less discussed benefit of vitamin C is its potential to positively impact your allergy symptoms. Let’s delve into this vitamin’s influence on allergies and strategies for ensuring…
Climate Change Hurts Allergy Sufferers
Each year, does it seem like your eyes are getting itchier? Is your nose runnier? Maybe your sinuses are getting stuffier, too? If so, you’re not just imagining things. Recent research has found that the pollen season is growing longer and more severe due to climate change. Longer Growing Season Increases Airborne Pollen Climate change…
Is It Summer Allergies or a Cold?
While the World Health Organization may have officially declared the global COVID pandemic over last May, summer colds aren’t going anywhere. This common illness could affect even more people now that the mask-wearing and social distancing that helped slow their spread in recent years has ceased. Getting sick during summer allergy season can make it…
How Can You Manage Your Allergies This Spring?
As spring emerges, so do the budding flowers, the pitter-patter of heavy rains and those long-missed sunny days that hid away over the winter months. Yet, amid the joys of spring, allergies may arrive to put a damper on your fun. With the arrival of spring pollen, allergy management becomes crucial to enjoying this season…
New Study Shows Light Pollution Can Extend Allergy Season
Researchers are no longer in the dark about the effects of artificial light sources on trees and woody plants. Evidence shows that the bright lights of big cities are altering urban plants’ normal seasonal rhythms, leading to earlier and longer allergy seasons and exacerbating everything from allergies to asthma to other breathing issues. Details of…
Is it Allergies, or Is It Fatigue?
For the 26% of U.S. adults with seasonal allergies, spring’s arrival can awaken an array of annoying symptoms, including itchy and watery eyes, sinus pain, sneezing and even fatigue. Common allergy symptoms cause fatigue by preventing you from getting a good night’s rest. A stuffed-up nose can make it hard to fall asleep, and coughing…
Unexpected Places for Common Allergens
More than 100 million people in the U.S. experience allergies every year. Living with allergies can be a constant battle, with symptoms seemingly triggered out of nowhere. It may seem easy to predict where common allergens like dust mites, pollen, pet dander and mold will be found, but these allergens may hide in surprising places….
How to Navigate Allergens When Gift Shopping
Many people are familiar with the age-old struggle to find the perfect gift for a loved one. There are countless things to consider, from clothing sizes to favorite TV shows and books. One aspect you may not have thought about when looking for just the right thing is how allergens may impact your options. Whether…
Tips for Managing Chronic Hives
It is likely that at least once in your life, you have experienced those red, itchy bumps or welts on your skin that seem to appear from out of nowhere. Those bumps are called hives, and nearly 1 in 5 people will experience them in their lifetime. When you experience hives lasting longer than six…
Tips for Packing an Allergen-Free Lunch for Your Child
If your child or a child you know has food allergies, it can be difficult to pack a nutritious, allergen-free lunch daily. According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America about 20 million people in the U.S. have food allergies and about 4 million U.S. children have food allergies. Most food allergy reactions stem…
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