Ready for Ragweed Allergy Season? These 8 Tips Can Help Fight Pollen Allergy

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It is amazing how much clearing the home of older carpeting can help with allergies to dust mites, etc.
Try just tossing a runner over wooden floors. Wall to wall plush carpeting looks and feels all cuddly, but dust mites love that type of environment.
Not good for those who might have allergies.

AK of IL 11:09PM September 19, 2009

Having been jolted out of my Sunday afternoon glee at finally seeing some much needed rainfall in the Midwest, and all because of something that could have been avoided had more people been informed, I felt the need to post a link to this very important EPA information link, as it might be important for anyone with asthma (not an asthmatic, but feel terrible for anyone who is one and has to deal with this issue).
Apparently, some people are quite uninformed about the health hazards of leaf-burning! Upon looking out the back window to check and see if any of the adorable little resident cottontail bunnies were around nibbling on wet grass after a rainstorm subsided, as they often do, I instead saw three of our local fire-fighters walking across the yard and over to a small house on the opposite side. I also smelled something awful and saw smoke, as well.
A temporary neighborhood resident, apparently renting a small house, had been burning leaves and papers in a garbage can, which is absolutely illegal and a complete fire hazard! I had noticed smoke in the past, but didn't realize it was more than a fire-pit, but that the fellow was literally burning all sorts of papers and stuff. Thankfully, someone living closer must have called the fire department when alarmed by the smoke, and so by the time I got to realizing what was going on down the block, the fire department had already arrived, along with the local police, to issue some paperwork to the man.
It is not only often ILLEGAL to openly burn leaves, but it is also hazardous to the health of those who inhale the smoke. Even worse for asthmatics.
Please share this link with anyone wondering if open leaf burning is acceptable.
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/burn/leafburn2.html
Not only does it absolutely stink in the vicinity of the burning, but the smell travels down the block and fills the rooms near the open windows, something often done in summertime. It's just plain rude to subject others to that awful stench as it is, let alone put nearby elderly people and asthmatics in danger of serious health issues.
Please do not burn leaves without first contacting the local neighborhood officials to see if there are problems in doing so. That's just common sense.

Angie Koutrotsios of IL 6:45PM August 16, 2009

The Ragweed allergys were combated with antihistimanes for years, then shots and finally prednisone and nasal steroid sprays. The Prednisone was a wonder drug as it cleared the symptoms of the ragweeed, however it brought my imume system down for the next six months.
As I become older the use of avoidance seems to be a better method. Staying indoors between 5-10 am, showers before I go to bed, changing clothing often.
If I do endure some polen, my attempt is to push thru the reaction until I can get to a "cleaner area". It seems the medications do more damage than the discomfort.
I was using Patanol in my eyes, however this too drops your imume system.
Last two years have been 75 % better than years on medication by using avoidance.

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Stephen of IL 12:07PM August 14, 2009

Thanks to global warming-cooling, there does not seem to be an allergy season any more. I haven't had any spring allergy symptoms in 3 years since we no longer have a spring and no fall allergy symptoms since 2004. It makes me wonder why any allergist would be pretending the ragweed season is longer. It is gone.

Eve of NY 11:24PM August 13, 2009

for decades until a Doctor of Osteopathy gave me a seven-day round of Prednisone to combat a particularly acute spell that had included asthmatic symptoms.
My hay fever problem went to about 10% of what it had been. That was 25 years ago.
It was quite the cure.

Muser of NM 5:37PM August 13, 2009