Allergy Symptoms Article ~ WebMD

Article on how to recognize the symptoms of having an allergic reaction.

They range from mild reactions such as congestion… to more severe reactions like vomiting and diarrhea.

clipped from www.webmd.com Allergies: Allergy Symptoms Allergy symptoms can be categorized as mild, moderate, or severe. Mild Allergic Reactions Mild allergic reactions can include: Rash Itchy, watery eyes Congestion Mild reactions do not spread to other parts of the body. Moderate Allergic Reactions Moderate reactions can include symptoms that spread to other parts of the body, including: Itchiness Difficulty breathing Severe Allergic Reaction (Anaphylaxis) Anaphylaxis is a rare, life-threatening emergency in which the body’s response to the allergen is sudden and affects the whole body. It may begin with sudden itching of the eyes or face and within minutes progress to more serious symptoms, including: Varying degrees of swellings that can make breathing and swallowing difficult Abdominal pain Cramps Vomiting Diarrhea Mental confusion or dizziness

Allergy Forecasting by zip code

Cool site lets you enter your zip code and it will forecast what the allergy season will be.

Pretty cool, huh?

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clipped from dftools.ivillage.com Allergy Forecast Enter your Zip code to get your local Allergy Forecast. You can avoid or minimize allergy discomfort by knowing your local Allergy Forecast. You can plan your activities, medications or allergen avoidance ahead of time. Remember, forewarned is forearmed. High Pollen levels between 8.1 and 12.0 usually affect most people who suffer from the pollen types of the season. Symptoms may become more severe during days with high pollen levels. Medium Pollen levels between 4.1 and 8.0 will likely trigger symptoms for many people with allergies to the predominant pollen types of the season. Low Pollen levels between 0 and 4.0 tend to affect very few allergic people. Air Quality Grass Pollen Ragweed Pollen Tree Pollen UV Index

Asthma Relief – Doctors Advice

This blog is truly on natural ways to relive your allergies and asthma… but I cannot neglect the fact that people do need the help of a Doctor.

The below tidbit was clipped from WebMD… you might want to visit their site to read up a bit more.

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clipped from www.webmd.com Asthma Relief For optimal asthma relief, it’s important to take responsibility for self-care. With the help of your doctor, you can get the best asthma relief by checking your peak flow daily, developing an Asthma Action Plan with your doctor, keeping an asthma diary, avoiding asthma triggers, and using natural asthma therapies to help increase relaxation. Getting the best asthma relief means staying on top of your asthma triggers, signs and symptoms, and medications to prevent asthma problems. Developing an Asthma Action Plan Keeping an Asthma Diary Using a peak flow meter may help you manage your asthma symptoms. With asthma, the inability to exhale air out of the lungs is responsible for a many of the symptoms of asthma. A peak flow meter is an inexpensive, portable, handheld device that is used to measure how well air moves out of your lungs. Measuring your peak flow using this meter is an important part of managing asthma and preventing you or your child from becoming seriously ill.

Natural Asthma Relief

Really good article on relieving your asthma issues the natural way.

Picture of your airway that shows what happens when you have an asthma attack.

clipped from asthmahelpnow.livejournal.com Great Natural Asthma Relief Article Natural Asthma Relief article. One of the best articles I have found on relieving your asthma the natural way. The asthma relief article explains what asthma is… how it starts and what can trigger the asthma. Natural Asthma Relief Asthma is best described as a chronic inflammatory condition rather than a respiratory disease. In fact, asthma’s origins have more in common with arthritis than they do with emphysema or tuberculosis. Asthma is simply a chronic inflammation of the airway rather than the joints. People with asthma have inflamed, hyperreactive airways that produce excessive bronchial mucus. After repeated asthma attacks, the airway lining becomes scarred, and immune cells, which cause or exacerbate inflammation, proliferate there. [2] Asthma eventually damages the airway permanently, making it more prone to inflammation and less functional overall. clipped from asthmahelpnow.livejournal.com Asthma ~ what is asthma

Asthma ~ what is asthma

Asthma article that details exactly what asthma is and how it affects your breathing… good images that show you what happens to your airway.

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clipped from www.nhlbi.nih.gov What Is Asthma? Asthma (Az-muh) is a chronic disease that affects your airways. The airways are the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs. If you have asthma, the inside walls of your airways are inflamed (swollen). The inflammation (IN-fla-MAY-shun) makes the airways very sensitive, and they tend to react strongly to things that you are allergic to or find irritating. When the airways react, they get narrower, and less air flows through to your lung tissue. This causes symptoms like wheezing (a whistling sound when you breathe), coughing, chest tightness, and trouble breathing, especially at night and in the early morning. Asthma cannot be cured, but most people with asthma can control it so that they have few and infrequent symptoms and can live active lives.

Asthma Signs and symptoms

In some individuals asthma is characterized by chronic respiratory impairment.

In others it is an intermittent illness marked by episodic symptoms that may result from a number of triggering events, including upper respiratory infection, stress, airborne allergens, air pollutants (such as smoke or traffic fumes), or exercise.

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clipped from en.wikipedia.org Asthma Asthma is a chronic condition (generally associated with humans but also controversially being diagnosed in housepets such as cats[1]) involving the respiratory system in which the airway occasionally constricts, becomes inflamed, and is lined with excessive amounts of mucus, often in response to one or more triggers.[2] These episodes may be triggered by such things as exposure to an environmental stimulant (or allergen) such as cold air, warm air, perfume,[3] moist air, exercise or exertion, or emotional stress. In children, the most common triggers are viral illnesses such as those that cause the common cold.[4] This airway narrowing causes symptoms such as wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing. The airway constriction responds to bronchodilators. Between episodes, most patients feel well but can have mild symptoms and they may remain short of breath after exercise for longer periods of time than the unaffected individual.

Asthma and Allergy Relief is here

This is ground breaking information on how to stop and take control of your allergies and astham…

clipped from www.dramatic-asthma-relief.com Dramatic Asthma Relief Report: Why don’t the drug companies make it if it works so well? This highly effective natural asthma treatment uses supplements that are already available at health food and vitamin stores. These natural supplements can’t be patented, controlled or owned by any drug company. The reality is, today it costs $1 billion to develop a drug for market and without airtight patents to protect it, there is no way for drug companies to get a return on such a massive investment. Here is what a Doctor has to say about the Dramatic Asthma Relief Report: Others whose lives have positively changed clipped from www.dramatic-asthma-relief.com If you don’t think that’s the case, stop right now and think about what it costs to buy prescription asthma and allergy drugs month after month clipped from www.dramatic-asthma-relief.com