In its simplest form, skin distress can easily be linked to its cause, allowing you to avoid the allergen. Many people, however, have no idea why their temperamental skin is always on the verge of breaking out – often despite their best efforts to keep it clean and pampered. The answers to a few key [...]
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Insects that cause allergy are of two general sorts: stingers and biters. Stingers include bees, hornets and wasps. The females of the species are the troublemakers. Equipped with stingers mounted on their hind sections, they inject their venom much as a doctor injects you with a hypodermic needle. Stinging insects produce more severe reactions than [...]
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Say you find yourself in a setting where you’re breathing one nasty allergen after another. You can’t leave the room or remove the sources. Perhaps you can’t even open a window – it’s 10 degrees outside, or the window is bolted shut. Enter the face mask. Lightweight, cotton surgical masks strain out particles such as [...]
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Do you feel worse: – whenever you are around animals? – when you handle rugs, wear fur coats or down clothing, or sleep with a quilt or feather pillow? If so, you’re probably allergic to animal hair, dander and odour. Allergy to pet dander – particles of hair and skin that cling to fur – [...]
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If you’ve ruled out everything we’ve mentioned so far and still suspect that your problems are caused by diet, think about the following. Ragweed Relatives. Sunflower seeds and chamomile tea are members of the same plant family as ragweed and chrysanthemums. If you’re allergic to ragweed, you could very well develop an allergy to those [...]
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