Help for Spring allergies before they come!

Allergy sufferers have many complaints, from foods to chemicals to animals.  None seem to be as prevalent as those who reach for the remedies at the change of seasons.  The end of winter heralds the thawing of Mother Earth and the coming to life of her greenery. Hence, the molds, pollens from trees, grasses, flowers, weeds and the like comes in the timed waves that cause a synchronized suffering among children and adults.

In New York and the Northeast, I begin to see patients in early to mid-March with reactions to the molds that are starting to proliferate in the outside environment.  Indoor heat is especially drying and can keep indoor mold from producing mold spores in large quanitities (really wet bathrooms/basements being an exception). Once temperatures moderate outside, and just as the green buds appear on twigs and branches, mold suffering is felt in sinuses and nasal cavities.  Soon after, as April rolls along, pollen causes tell-tale congestion, running noses and post-nasal drip.  Severe post-nasal drip will produce non-productive, constant coughing.  Many pollen sufferers do not have the nasal congestion, but will suffer fatigue and headaches which they may assume are the result of fatigue and overwork.  However, this is the onset of a pattern that could lead to more common congestion and suffering the following season.

I have been treating seasonal allergy patients with great success for nine seasons.  Most of these patients need to have a thorough allergy evaluation.  The worst suffering occurs in people who have other food allergy/senstivity issues.  This occurs because many of us acquire environmental allergies in adolescence and in early adult life, after already having food allergies.  The severity of the pollen reaction, for instance, can be increased by a person's allergy to eggs, even if they feel fine when they eat eggs.  How can this be?  Most of us assume an absence of symptoms is a good thing. 

Allergies have been known to cause "hypersensitivity" reactions, but the lesser known "hyposensitive" reactions are not as well understood or explained.  In medical terms the "hyposensitive" allergies have been referred to as "latent" allergies.  In Traditional Chinese Medecine, disturbances in the acupuncture meridians may cause immediate symptoms, or cause changes in metabolism that manifest in less obvious ways.  Wether "hypo" or "hyper" an allergy is still an allergy, and needs to be addressed by stopping the meridian system from reacting adversely.

Once an evaluation of your food allergies has been made, you will be treated for some of these food reactions prior to being treated for pollens, grasses and trees.  This will ensure that your treatment will give you permanent relief.

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