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Enormously Useful Allergy Treatment - With Virtually No Side Effects

Mercola reports a PNAS study led by the USDA's Lewis Ziska linking warming temperatures to a longer ragweed pollen season, now 27 days longer in the northernmost parts of North America, and notes that a record-wet spring has primed much of the US for a heavy allergy season.

Disease

Worst hay fever season is here

An allergist tells NPR that sky-high pollen counts have made this one of the worst hay fever seasons in years. The piece runs through antihistamines, decongestants now logged behind the pharmacy counter, and steroid nasal sprays, noting most only treat symptoms.

Apr 21, 2010

Vitamins

Multivitamins may help cut allergy risk

A Swedish study of more than 2,000 eight-year-olds found current multivitamin use unrelated to allergic rhinitis, eczema, asthma or sensitization. Children who started supplements before age four were 39% less likely to have allergic disease, which the authors call a suggestion, not proof.

Nov 2, 2009

Other Diseases

Allergy Awareness Week

Food allergies affect 12 million Americans, three million of them children, and the CDC reports peanut allergy among children doubled over a recent five-year period. During Allergy Awareness Week, May 10-16, allergy groups pushed for more research funding.

May 17, 2009

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