Category: Allergies
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It’s allergy season and what can I do?
The following YouTube video describes a process called “Rush Immunotherapy” conducted in Ohio. It’s now a more common way to deliver #allergy shots and reduces the total number of shots required to achieve clinical relief from your #allergies. Some caveats about #RUSH Immunotherapy need to be included and your bullet list is below the video.…
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Wacky Oklahoma Weather
I love weather! Growing up on a farm in Kansas brought a variety of weather right to my front doorstep, and that must be one reason I became an allergist. You have to be part botanist to do this job anyway, with monitoring pollen counts, making allergy recipes for allergy shots, and knowing what is…
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Food allergy “testing” is usually a bad idea
Originally posted on The Pediatric Insider: The Pediatric Insider © 2015 Roy Benaroch, MD People like tests. You get numbers, and maybe a printout, and there’s science and blood and things just feels more… serious, when testing is done. You can picture Marcus Welby (or perhaps a more modern physician), looking solemn, declaring “We’d better…
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Spring is Right Around the Corner!
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Why See an Allergist?
Believe it or not the pollen season is just around the corner–6 weeks to be exact.
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Do you Pick Your Nose?
Over-the-Counter Allergy Medications Warrant Caution for Some Nasal allergy sprays can now be purchased without prescription. The next time you’re at the local pharmacy, you may be surprised to see your prescribed allergy nasal spray available over-the-counter. Many drug manufacturers are pushing for this move to make finding relief easier for some of the 50…
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Dealing with Problems by Self-Medicating
Originally posted on 123MyMD: How many of us try to self-medicate ourselves. We might do it with alcohol; we might do it with drugs; we may do it with over-the-counter medications; we may do it with caffeine. All sorts of things are used to self-medicate. What you have to look at is what problem are…
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Looking to get rid of your feline allergies? Check this out.
Originally posted on The Allergista: So, a week or so ago… I got an email from somebody asking me if I’d be interested in partaking in a research study that’s being done in an effort to rid people of their cat allergies. Since my skin reactions are so bad, I was definitely interested. I told…
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Why are allergies increasing?
The hygiene hypothesis explained very well. Another reason not to start antibiotics too soon. CLINICALNEWS.ORG Public release date: 13-Apr-2010 – In 1980, 10 percent of the Western population suffered from allergies. Today, it is 30 percent. In 2010 – one out of 10 children is said to be asthmatic and the mortality rate resulting from…
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What to Make of Dr. Oz and his Detox? Not much
Originally posted on gutsandgrowth: Although my exposure to Dr. Oz has been limited, he is not one of my favorite TV doctors. He often offers opinions in areas where he clearly is not an expert. By presenting himself as a doctor who is knowledgeable in so many areas, he has the potential of undermining the credibility of physicians more…
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