Sinus problem, allergies and asthma are the bane of many peoples’ existence. Too often, this results in the knee-jerk antibiotic prescription and steroids. These conditions can be incredibly challenging to deal with from a functional medicine standpoint because, all too often, the problem stems back to immune development in the first 2 years of life. […]
This is not the first time I’ve written about the wonders of drops for allergies for different conditions. But drops for asthma…this is new… A large chunk of the population deals with the discomfort and limitations of allergies and asthma here in the US. This allergy season seems to have hit patients particularly hard. Worse, […]
Peanut allergies can lead to something called anaphalactic shock. Not pleasant when it is your child’s airway that closes up. Many of these families have to carry around a shot of epinephrine (“epi-pen”) to open up the airway if they are exposed to even the smallest amount of a peanut. In some cases merely being next […]
With food allergies, you can avoid offending foods. What about environmental allergies? Kind of hard to live in a bubble. Good thing there are drops for allergies. This is not the first time I have addressed this option for allergy sufferers. Basically, the use of drops under the tongue (sublingual) has been shown to be […]
Ask any allergy-suffering adult how much allergies suck and you’ll likely get an earful. Sneezing, watery eyes, sinus headaches, itchy eyes…it’s enough to make life miserable. When you combine this with asthma, curling up in the back of a dark cave seems greatly appealing. Certainly anything you can do to protect this same scenario from playing out […]
