HOW TO CURE YOUR ALLERGIES: INHALANT ALLERGIES

Apr 07 2009

Diet is as important for the treatment of inhalant allergies as it is for food allergies. Diet raises the body’s resistance to allergies by building up the immune system. Make sure that foods pertaining to a given inhalant allergen are not consumed for ninety days. The removal of food correlates speeds the process of desensitisation to inhalant, allergens by helping to reduce overall contact with them.

Common oafs is a grass, the spores of which are frequently in the air during spring and autumn, to which many people have inhalant allergies (sinusitis, hayfever, asthma, conjunctivitis,). Sensitivity to common oats is lowered by removing all oats from the diet, and avoiding all contact with muesli, porridge, Guiness stout, oatmeal soap, oatmeal skin preparations, oat bran and oatmeal. With rye grass sensitivity avoid Ryvita, rye bread and rye flour.

Those with a sensitivity to a number of grasses and pollen do better if they stay off herbal teas, most of which are of grass and pollen origin. Although herbal teas are better for you than ordinary tea and coffee, if you’re allergic to grasses and pollens they can do more harm than tea and coffee. Rosehip and peppermint arc safe herbal leas for the grass allergic.

Sensitivities to airborne moulds, including those that live in air-conditioning systems of large offices (namely alternaria) can be lowered by staying off the foods list. If you’re allergic to the cephlasporium mould that lives in the soil you must wear a dust mask (obtainable along with your dust mile cover and dust mite spray from your chemist) while digging and weeding the garden or repotting the pot plants.

If you’re allergic to grasses, wear long pants to golf and put your dust mask on while driving, chipping, putting and playing out off the rough. Don’t attempt to walk too far with it, as it’ll restrict your breathing and fatigue you. Don’t bushwalk, cut. the lawns or ride a cycle on or near freshly cut lawns or in the bush for ninety days. If you’re an orchardist or commercial flower grower wear the dust mask while sedentary (for example, on the tractor) and try to get someone to do the heavy work for ninety days so that you’re not forced to breathe deeply and inhale airborne allergens.

The best mask to wear is the one the spray painters use. Unfortunately, it can’t be worn if physical activity is engaged in. It’s ideal for wearing around the house while someone else is cutting yours or your neighbour’s lawn. Also while sitting on a tractor, ploughing, sowing, fertilising or spraying. After ninety days of the program and avoidance of the inhalants you should be able to make contact with them again without your symptoms returning.

The best time for grass allergic people to go on the programs is winter when the pollen and spore count is at its lowest and the body is having a seasonal rest from these airborne allergens. By observing over the ninety days of winter, adequate rest, strict adherence to the program and minimal contact with the inhalants, spring should see you symptom free despite walking in the fields, digging the gardens, working in the glasshouse or cutting the lawns. Often the desensitising vaccine is also required to achieve this.