Environmental Allergies:

Relieving An Illness Thru
Types Of Alternative Medicine

Environmental allergies have always been an over-looked segment and is often thought of as one of the newest types of alternative medicine. This type of allergy can be the result of inhaled substances (from both indoors or outdoors) such as pollen, chemicals, mold or from your pets. Foods and food poisoning also play an important role, whether they be ingested or just inhaled. Often, now it is becoming more frequent that allergens in the office, home, medicines or industry and environment can also be the trigger.

Two Types Of Environmental Allergies

Environmental medicine is the study of the relationship between our bodies and its daily environment. The signs of a "clash" between the two of them usually manifests itself in two major types of symptoms.

• The Over-Aggressive Immune System this is characterized by the following example. Two people are having a peanut butter sandwich. The person with the over-aggressive system will start to show signs of a rash, hives, respiratory distress, eyes, ears and nose symptoms. The second person with the normal immune system will show no unusual symptoms at all.

• The Under-Aggressive Immune System is a sign of an immune system in distress. This could be because of illness or disease. This is characterized by very little outward signs of symptoms but since your defenses are down, you will commonly catch every cold or virus that seems to go around. It will also be characteristic of slow to no healing times when you get an infection, cut or general illness.

Environmental Allergies And Children

Natural Living Techniques To Reduce Food Allergy Symptoms

• Good indoor air quality is very important for allergy and asthma sufferers. Pollutants in the air are common allergy triggers. The easiest way to improve the quality of the air you breathe inside your home is to get rid of your household chemicals. Try these natural house cleaning tips to get you started.

• Find a way to reduce the mental and physical stress in your life. Many people state as their life becomes more stressful, their allergies become more predominant

• Consider becoming a vegetarian or at least reducing some of the major allergens you ingest in your life. Rely on buying organics by using a broader range of fruits and vegetables in your everyday diet to reduce the chemical and pesticide toxicity in your diet..

• Incorporate juicing into your diet, whether it is from organic fruits, vegetables or a combination of the two

• Consistent exercise can benefit the overall strength and health of the immune system

• Detoxification under the strict supervision of an experienced practitioner can help reduce or remove the allergen sensitivity

• Grounding is a new therapy which actually aids and benefits the re-growth and vitality of your own body's immune system. While grounding itself will not do anything to help you recover from the allergy, a healthy immune system can help prevent or down-grade common allergy triggers before they even start.

Although treating environmental allergies is becoming more and more difficult to diagnose because of the increased incidence of toxins in our lives, at least now the promise is there for many people that a life-plan is available to help. Many times the patient is required to make major lifestyle changes. This could include major changes to their diet, possibly using allergy control products on a monthly to yearly basis for their home and work environment, their list of toiletries may need some revisions , the herbicides and chemicals used in cleaning, their foods and gardening may have to be changed, or even their pharmaceutical medications. All or many of these may need to be minimized by finding and daily using allergy safe products to prevent an increased incidence of allergic reactions.

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Additional Related Topics

• Chemical Sensitivity

• Pesticide Toxicity