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How Air Conditioning Can Exacerbate Allergy Symptoms

When you are allergic to airborne allergens and contaminants, anything that affects the air quality can exacerbate your condition.  Air conditioning, for example, can significantly increase the amount and severity of allergy symptoms for many reasons. Here is a list of how air conditioning can exacerbate allergy symptoms and how to combat the effects. How …

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What is the Rhinovirus?

While colds are merely an inconvenience to healthy adults, these infections can increase the risks and complications for young children, elderly individuals, and persons with pre-existing health conditions and serious illnesses. The predominant cause for the common cold is rhinovirus, an infection within the Picornaviridae family of viruses. The treatment is generally focused on symptomatic …

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Halloween Candy and Your Kids’ Allergies

Halloween can be the season of costumes, scary movies, and trick-or-treating. But for parents of kids with food allergies, it can be frightful. This beloved holiday raises concerns of the overwhelming presence of food that may contain peanuts, tree nuts, diary, and other allergens used in many chocolates, caramels, and fruit candies. Even more candies …

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How Allergy Shots Can Help Children with Allergies

Allergies can flare up with the onset of triggers such as dust mites, and pollen from trees or grasses or mold. When this happens, your child can get a runny nose, itchy eyes, or a sore throat. In more severe cases, allergy reactions can upset his or her stomach and make your child feel ill. …

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Does Sunlight Make You Sneeze?

It’s not an allergy… If you sneeze when suddenly exposed to sunlight or other bright lights, you’re not alone: research estimates that up to 30% of all humans share this peculiar trait, known as the “photic sneeze reflex.” Even Aristotle documented his confusion on the matter, writing in his Book of Problems: “Why does the …

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Dealing with Atopic Dermatitis

Atopic dermatitis, also known as eczema, is a hereditary and chronic skin disorder that can occur at any age. It most often affects infants and young children, and may last until the child reaches adolescence or adulthood. It typically causes the skin to itch, turn red, and flake. Different triggers can make it worse, including …

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Why Do We Sneeze? Allergies and Other Triggers

Sneezing is an involuntary reflex that we are socially conditioned to suppress, which can be tricky when a sneeze takes you by surprise. Unlike most respiratory symptoms, sneezes seem to have a vast array of direct and indirect triggers. While we all sneeze when infected with the cold or flu, some of us also sneeze …

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What is Cross-Reactivity?

Allergies can be caused by a variety of factors. These could vary from animal products, mites, molds, latex, pollen, medicines, plants, venom, as well as food. Most of the non-food related allergies can be accompanied by reactions in the mouth or the gastrointestinal tract.  Food related allergies, on the other hand, can be accompanied by …

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Grass Allergy: The Signs and Symptoms

Do You Have a Grass Allergy? A Grass allergy, or allergy to grass pollen, is one of the most common seasonal allergies.  Still, many people who have grass allergies do not realize it or mistakenly think that they are being affected by a different allergen. Here is a list of the signs and symptoms of …

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The Rarest Allergies

The Rarest Allergies in the World Regardless of what allergy you have, any form of hypersensitivity is inconvenient at best and life-threatening at worst. Fortunately, the more common allergies have a modicum of public knowledge on their side, with the majority of allergens relatively avoidable in your daily life. Moreover, the more common your allergy …

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