Is There a Link Between Energy Efficient Homes and Asthma?
Any home can worsen asthma and allergy symptoms if indoor air quality is poor.
If you suffer from asthma—especially allergic asthma that can be triggered by mold, pollen, dust, and other airborne contaminants—you obviously need to pay attention to the indoor air quality in your home so that you can breathe comfortably and hopefully reduce the frequency of your asthma attacks.
While everyone agrees on the importance of indoor air quality, opinions differ on how to get it. Some people will try to tell…
READ MORE →Unhappy with OTC Hay Fever Meds? See an Allergy Doctor
Our caring allergy doctors will help you find maximum relief from hay fever symptoms.
Are you unhappy with the level of relief from your hay fever symptoms that you’ve been able to achieve with over-the-counter medications? You’re not alone.
According to research recently presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, only 33 percent of individuals who use over-the-counter allergy medications to treat hay fever are really happy with the results.
By contrast, 51 percent of individuals who…
READ MORE →Allergic to Penicillin? You May Have Been Misdiagnosed
New allergy test can reveal true penicillin allergies
Have you been avoiding penicillin because of allergy worries? Turns out, you may have been misdiagnosed, or you may have outgrown your allergy years ago.
Up until recently, allergists had no reliable standardized test for penicillin allergy. Instead, people were diagnosed as allergic to penicillin based on symptoms like vomiting, diarrhea, or rash—all of which could simply be adverse drug reactions rather than true allergic reactions.
This old approach to penicillin allergy diagnosis has led to up to 10…
READ MORE →Probiotic Treatment Cures Milk Allergies
New research shows that probiotic treatment can cure milk allergies in infants.
Food allergies are on the rise in many parts of the developed world, with some estimates placing the increase at as much as 20 percent in the past 10 years. Allergies to cows’ milk have become particularly troubling, with many children experiencing frightening symptoms due to casein and/or whey proteins in the milk.
Most children will outgrow a milk allergy eventually. However, before they do, they will have to spend years avoiding milk, which can be very…
READ MORE →The Real Facts About Seafood Allergies
Learn to distinguish between myths and facts about seafood allergies.
Fish and shellfish are among the top 8 most common triggers for food allergy sufferers. Considering that a food allergy can be a quite serious condition, with the potential to result in swelling of the lips, tongue, and throat, trouble breathing, and even anaphylactic shock, naturally you want to be very careful.
But before you decide to avoid all ingredients even remotely related to fish or shellfish, take a moment to consider these facts:
Seafood Allergens Include Fish and…
READ MORE →Best Home Cleaning Products for Allergy Sufferers
Keep cleaning activities from triggering allergy symptoms with these tips.
Allergens are everywhere. Short of living inside a hermetically sealed bubble, it would actually be impossible to get every bit of irritating dust, dander, pollen, and mold out of your home’s air. However, with proper cleaning, you can control indoor allergens to help reduce or prevent allergy symptoms at home.
If you have allergies, you may find yourself putting off your cleaning chores because the act of cleaning actually makes you feel worse. This can happen if…
READ MORE →A New Approach to Infant Peanut Allergies
Studies reveal new tactics for eliminating milk and peanut allergies.
Food allergies can be a scary subject for new parents. Typically, the way most parents find out their baby has a food allergy is by surprise: a food containing the allergy is offered and the baby swells up with hives and perhaps even has constriction of the airways that make them wheeze and gasp for breath.
Knowing that kids with one food allergy are likely to have another, and by no means eager for a repeat of…
READ MORE →What is Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction?
EIB is an asthma-like condition that can be managed with help from your allergist in Ventura CA
Everyone gets a little short of breath when they exercise. In fact, this is typically seen as a good sign—it means you’re working hard enough to burn fat and stay fit. However if your shortness of breath is accompanied by symptoms like coughing, wheezing, or tightness in your chest, you may have a condition called exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB).
This is basically a fancy way of saying you have exercise-induced asthma.
Not everyone who has…
READ MORE →Home Remedies for Hives: What Works & What Doesn’t
Learn why visiting the allergist is the best remedy for hives.
Looking for relief from hives? In most cases, hives will fade on their own, leading many people to seek out home remedies for the itching and swelling to make waiting for their hives to disappear more bearable. Unfortunately, some home remedies are not so helpful as others, and all of them pale in comparison to getting help from a qualified allergist.
Here is some helpful information about some of the more common home remedies…
READ MORE →It’s Not Too Late to Treat Fall Ragweed Allergies
Visit one of our allergists for personalized ragweed allergy treatment.
This summer was a bad one for allergy sufferers, with high pollen counts in many places. Unfortunately, now that fall is approaching a new pollen allergen will be taking the place of summer pollens and perhaps causing even more sneezing and wheezing.
The name of that pollen?
Ragweed.
According to the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology, ragweed is the biggest fall allergy trigger. And most people who are allergic to pollens are allergic to ragweed.
Ragweed…
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