Top Tips for Coping with Allergies
by Mark Lamendola,
lifetime allergy sufferer
- Limit your intake of dairy products during your
peak allergy time and before going to bed.
- Shower before going to bed, rather than in the
morning. Always wash your hair before going to bed.
- Change your bedding once per week. Use hot
water to kill dust mites.
- Use a high-efficiency filter in your HVAC
system, and run the whole-house fan when you are home.
- Using a wet rag, dust your bathroom floors at
least twice a week.
- Beef up your immune system with a B-Complex and
vitamin C.
- Alfalfa tablets help your body eliminate
toxins. Take 10 each morning.
- Ask your physician for a prescription to
one of the new steroidal medications. These work wonders.
- Pick one food and eliminate it from your diet
for a week. If you have a change in symptoms, you may be allergic to
this food. Try eating less of it for a few months.
- Don't go anywhere near tobacco smoke (it
weakens your immune system) or places where people smoke (the smoke
makes a substrate for molds).
- About every other month, clean all bathroom and
kitchen surfaces with an industrial grade disinfectant. Note, this
does not mean spraying with Lysol.
- Have your carpet professionally cleaned each
fall, but after you close your windows for the winter.
- Keep your windows closed all year; use the air
conditioning for cooling--car and home.
- Drink plenty of water--at least one gallon per
day.
- Exercise at least moderately to improve your
general level of fitness--this makes your immune system stronger.
- In the spring and fall, avoid being outside
before 10AM, which is peak pollenization time.
Here's a great
clean air video. |
