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It’s about time to return to school.  Classes, gym, sports, music, and friends await!

Students with allergies don’t just bring their desire to learn and participate when they get back to school.  They also bring their allergies!  Knowing this can be frightening, especially for a parent who knows how much their child suffers because of their allergies.  Just remember, our schools have been at this for years so you want to tap into all the support you can to help your child stay well.

What Causes Asthma?

Asthma patients know all to well the suffering from being short of breath, having a tight chest and cough, and the wheezing noises. Why do these problems come and go? Can’t they just stay away?

The term ‘trigger’ is often used for a reason that asthma gets worse. Triggers can be obvious but often are not. For instance, all asthmatics have certain genetic issues that set them up to have asthma to begin with. You can’t do anything about your DNA, but you can deal with the other things that affect your asthma! Let’s go through some of the most common asthma triggers.

Allergies In Asthma: Where’s the Relief?

It doesn’t seem fair — not only do you have asthma but you also suffer from allergy symptoms like itchy eyes and nose, plus that itchy rash in the creases of your arms and legs. While genetics play a role in your asthma, so can allergy and infections.

For most patients, exposures to allergens (things we can be allergic to like dust mites, pollens, etc.) are to blame for causing most of these symptoms. If you want to get better, you have to treat your allergies.

What Causes Nose and Eye Allergies and How To Treat Them

When you are exposed to something that you are allergic to, you may sneeze, have a runny and itchy nose, get congested, and your eyes can get red and itchy. These are responses that you can actually see, hear and feel. However, what you may not realize is how these responses are triggered from within your body through its own natural defenses. Treatment for allergies is designed to prevent your body from overreacting when you are exposed to an allergen.

You’re sick of your allergies! All the staying inside. You’re take all the medications you can find and your primary provider prescribes. Yet still the itchy, runny, plugged up, sneezy and can’t breath keeps on and on. Maybe its time to see a board certified allergist.

Why A Board Certified Allergist?

Board Certified Allergists are the best choice for allergy and asthma problems because they provide you relief. Outcomes for asthma and allergy control are better with a board certified allergist than using your primary provider. Getting the right diagnosis and treatment plan leads to feeling better and this is often with fewer medications and less cost long term.

Dust Mite Allergies: What You Need to Know

If you are allergic to dust mites, it can be very difficult to avoid exposure, no matter how clean your house may be. In fact, your symptoms may worsen while you clean or immediately thereafter, as dust mites become unsettled and float in the air where they can be easily inhaled. They are also a leading cause of asthma in children and adults.

Stuffy Nose: Is It Allergies?

Once the colder weather rolls around, it is very easy to pass off a symptom such as a stuffy nose as having a cold. Normally, some cold symptoms might persist from seven to ten days. However, if you are still suffering a stuffy nose for longer than two weeks, it may be very possible that you have indoor allergies.