allergies

Has anyone seen those Nasal Ease commercials? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp_ezGGsys0

My friend has suggested to me apple cider vinegar for my allergies. Is there any evidence that shows apple cider vinegar to have any effect on allergies?

After getting hay fever, a friend of mine suggested megadosing on Vitamin C. With work keeping me down, I am unable to comb through the net searching for information that might help to correct my friend's misconceptions about this alternative medicine fad. I know about that Skeptoid episode...

I'm hesitant to buy into gluten-free diets and allergy scares posted all over the internet as cures to cancer and other ailments, however, I've been eating salads recently, and yesterday I felt particularly well (just OK, actually, but still an improvement). Then today I went to the store...

Alright, so, I've recently been diagnosed through a skin prick allergen testing as having a rather violent allergy to dust mites (okay, well technically to their waste, but you get what I mean I hope). I've been given a nasal allergy spray, an asthma medication (inhaled), and been instructed to...

So I seem to always be irritable in the spring time, I do occasionally have some allergic symptoms mainly in my eyes. Is the mood thing with or with out the eye symptoms possibly the result of an allergic reaction to tree pollen? Would allergy medicine be helpful? And it is not that I am...

A rather promimnent member of the Finnish woo-circles I know is starting to waver regarding some of her core-beliefs. But she's a tough one, quite well educated (as in brainwashed), and not ready to give up without proper evidence (which, I think, is admirable whatever the situation). She...

I've been hearing bits and pieces in various places about how the risk associated with peanut allergies is seriously exaggerated, but according to this article, the exaggeration is even worse than I thought. It provides actual numbers that show that current thinking concerning the risk of...

I've recently been seeing commercials for Allergen Block, which is apparently a new drug-free allergy treatment from the makers of Chloraseptic. It sounds like woo to me. I was wondering if there was any evidence that it works. Here's a commercial: aCdKeFLNgRA That's not the commercial I...

Does anyone here live in the Yorkshire Television region of the UK? Did anyone see Calendar News tonight at 6pm? They interviewed a guy in Yorkshire who claims he is allergic to electromagnetism. :confused: He claims it started twenty years ago when he bought a microwave oven, which when he...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/29/earlyshow/contributors/emilysenay/main1081250.shtml Nine hours is plenty of time for him to have brushed his teeth. This was such a preventable tragedy.

Hello all, I want to better understand Concepts: Immunities, Resistances, Allergies. I think these can be evolutionary/natural, hereditry & aquired--acute or chronic. 1. Do you have any idea about science of these concepts? 2. Can there be any relation to imbalances in our earth's natural...

Or does it just seem that way? I grew up in the 1940ties/50ties, and my husband in the 1930ties/40ties, & neither of us can recall the allergy "problem" that seems to exist in kids today. The MOST either os of us can recall is hearing of someone's (ususally an adult's) occasional reaction to...

ALLERGIES (Mon Mar 8 11:55:16) Message: I never had them as a kid, but I've got them now. What the hell is that? I used to laugh at the people who claimed the 'developed allergies'. My nose is stuffed up, my eyes water endlessly, and my throat itches. And what commericals do I see...

In an article in today's Guardian, our factually-challenged heir to the throne is bemoaning the huge rise in allergies in modern times (reasonably) and prescribing that everyone should take alternative medicines to solve the problem (absurdly). He's recommending that CAM should be more widely...

I am currently playing host to an 11 year old friend of my son's. He is asthmatic and uses prescription medecines to control the condition. His mother has stated that he is allergic to "red meat" i.e. beef, pork, lamb, venison etc which can bring on an asthmatic attack. On the other hand poultry...

We got off on a tangent in P&CE (not at all unusual) regarding the nature of smells, and how they relate to allergies. So, let's ask the science-heads here: What are they? Can a person be allergic to something and still tolerate the smell? Can you be allergic to a smell?