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If the seasonal allergies feel as if they feel worse every year, it’s not just you. The warming caused by climate change is getting longer of pollen season, and more recently, more people have been relieved by doctors. Research review Published in the journal laryngoscope.
One study reviewed by the reviewers has already been longer 20 days in North America between 1990 and 2018, and the average daily pollen concentration has increased.
Luckily, there is a way to prevent pollen from overcoming your life. The NPR asked the doctor for tips before managing the spring allergies.
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1. Keep the outside outside
Pollen warns Dr. Zachary Rubin, a pediatric allergy specialist and clinical immunologist. Blog on allergies And stocks Tips for allergies to social media. It is a good start to take off your shoes when you enter the house, but there are more things.
“You have to take off your clothes to reach the outside world before you sit in the furniture or bed.” All socks, pants, and shirts go directly to the laundry. Rubin is also recommended to take a shower or bath before going to bed. Rinse pollen from your skin and hair.
Indoors are recommended to keep the windows and doors as close as possible. Rubin says that if you like spring breeze, it can be a mess, but when pollen is open, you invite pollen to your home and mold at home.
If there is an allergic to the pollen, it is likely that things will float through the window on a dry and windy day. Rubin says that a rainy day is good for washing out of the air. But if you have allergies in the fungus, it’s a good idea to close the window even on rainy days.
Rubin says that if you need to open the window, an indoor air purifier can provide some slogans.
2. Wipe or take a pet
Rubin wipes the animal every time an animal comes in if there is a dog, a cat or a pet. You can choose allergic -friendly wet wipes at pet shops. Dr. Neelima Tummala, an otolaryngologist and clinical professor at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, is a good idea to take a more frequent bath to remove pollen from pets.
3. Keep your nose clean
First, look at the time when the number of pollen is actually high, try to avoid being outdoors for that time, and Tummala advises. Now we are in the wooden pollen season and have the highest tendency in the morning, she says.
Do you want to enjoy nature with less sneezing? Rubin says that the covid transmission can actually help to maintain pollen and fungi. He points out research During Covid, allergic symptoms have been reduced when medical workers wear masks.
Rubin is recommended to rinse your nose when you arrive home. You can do that with a netty pot or a saline spray. If you go to Neti Pot Route, you need to use distilled water or boiled tap water. (In tap water, water is less risk of infection of Amoeba that eats brain -EEK!)
4. You can know the medicine and know what to use when
Other allergic drugs treat different symptoms. Here are some common things to know about how to use them.
- Oral and nasal antihistamines. Rubin says oral antihistamines such as Zyrtec, Claritin, or Allegra if they are experiencing itchy eyes, runny nose or sneezing, Rubin says. Astepro is a nasal spray with antihistamines, and Rubin is usually recommended to pair with steroid sprays.
- Steroid co -spray. If you have a congestion or water droplets, steroidcos sprays such as Floase, NASACORT and NASONEX can be helpful. But Rubin says. Check out the time you use with your doctor. This spray takes a few weeks to start, Tummala pointed out. When the pollen season begins early, “I may have to start a nasal steroid spray earlier than before.
- Non -molecule. If you are really filled and you need immediate slogans, you can try to spray red blood removal sprays like Afrin or Vicks Sinex. This spray contracts blood vessels in the nasal passage. However, Rubin warns you not to use more than 3 to 5 days at a time because it can develop a worsening reaction. “You almost rely on it and it’s hard to get rid of it,” he warned.
5. The nose sprays the right way
You are probably doing wrong. I know I knew. “Many people go naturallySnoring, spray, snoring. What it does is just to shoot the medicine behind the throat you taste it. And when you taste it, you waste it. “Rubin says.
that I showed how to use Cospray correctly. In Tiktok in the virus. His secrets about getting correctly are:
“I speak people on my toes. So you look down and put the nozzle upwards, but slightly tilted to the side of the same side as the nose hole. And after spraying on both sides, you can take a breath in anticipation of your mouth. Rubin is normally breathing, but it may never shed a nose. “Rubin advises.
Why do you aim your ears? The ears are connected to the back of the throat and nasal cavity through the use of the Youth Tube, so reducing the inflammation of the area reduces the risk of developing fluids behind the ear. Rubin reduces the risk of sinus infections to the opening between the nasal passage and the sinuses by turning the spray bottle towards the ear.
6. I know the factors that can worsen the allergic reaction
Rubin uses a concept called Allergic symptom critical value Explain how to expose to multiple allergens with different factors and cause symptoms. “You can be exposed to one pollen grain and sneeze because it is enough to activate the immune system if it is exposed to a cloth, not sneezing.”
It also has a variety of allergens. For example, last week I was in Washington, DC, and was competing with pollen in external lovely cherry blossoms and my brother’s cat Felicia. My sinus was not pleased.
“It’s like you have a cup and fill it with other allergens and exposure, Rubin says.” (that Show the concept In another video.)
Other factors can also increase the likelihood of an allergic reaction. Rubin says that drinking alcohol is lowered, and some are more vulnerable to outdoors, especially when exercising.
When Rubin is sick, “the immune system is worsening and hyperactive,” Rubin says. (Because allergies are accumulated in the sinuses, he can’t interfere with respiratory infections.
Rubin said, “Returns to a decrease in exposure, Rubin says.
It contributed to the Maria Godoy report of the NPR.
