Allergy relief products are big business. That's the thing you have to remember when you set out to find something to bring relief to your allergy symptoms. That doesn't mean, however, that they are all bad. So how do you tell the difference between those that are likely to help you and those that are there primarily to make money for the manufacturers?
That many of these products are profitable for the sellers doesn't mean necessarily that you should avoid them, but the free market system does tend to encourage suppliers to put up their prices for a product that sells well.
High prices and increasing profits in the allergy relief products business have brought in another factor that allergy sufferers have to endure - the hard sell. All this makes it difficult to decide which remedy is right for you.
There are treatments such as Sub-Lingual Immunotherapy (SLIT) - placing a tiny amount of pollen under the tongue to bring about a degree of immunity. This is homeopathy in action. Or you can buy a phototherapy unit to emit pulses of light into your nostrils to inhibit the release of histamines and alleviate the inflammation of nasal mucous membranes.
Then there are the good old pollen capsules, which have been around for many years, and the inhalers that we are all familiar with. Probably most sufferers will find a suitable treatment from these options, and need not venture any further.
But there are more - after all, this is big business, remember? There are air purifiers and filters, both for personal use and for your car, and if you want the top of the range then you can have an ioniser. Or you can have a window filter or screen, a face mask (re-usable) or wrap-around eye protection.
You can even have air purifying light bulbs, steam cleaners, specially filtered vacuum cleaners, room sprays, dustmite-proof boilable pillows, laundry additives and sofa sprays. Have I exhausted the options available?
No, because there are also special mattresses for your bed, and water additives. There's very expensive pollen blocker balm to put up your nose (you can do the same with very cheap Vaseline or petroleum jelly and it's just as good), and there are even "acupressure bands" - just an expensive way of using acupressure (on only one of several possible pressure points) to bring relief.
No doubt there are more, all of them promising effective and often instant allergy natural relief from a wide range of allergies, not just hay fever. How can you judge whether any particular one may be right for you?
Only by finding out as much as you can about your own particular allergy. For example, if you believe you are allergic to peanut butter, it may be that the actual cause is an ingredient in peanut butter, and that ingredient may be present in other things you may eat. There may be a kind of peanut butter that doesn't have that ingredient and that you can therefore eat safely.
That many of these products are profitable for the sellers doesn't mean necessarily that you should avoid them, but the free market system does tend to encourage suppliers to put up their prices for a product that sells well.
High prices and increasing profits in the allergy relief products business have brought in another factor that allergy sufferers have to endure - the hard sell. All this makes it difficult to decide which remedy is right for you.
There are treatments such as Sub-Lingual Immunotherapy (SLIT) - placing a tiny amount of pollen under the tongue to bring about a degree of immunity. This is homeopathy in action. Or you can buy a phototherapy unit to emit pulses of light into your nostrils to inhibit the release of histamines and alleviate the inflammation of nasal mucous membranes.
Then there are the good old pollen capsules, which have been around for many years, and the inhalers that we are all familiar with. Probably most sufferers will find a suitable treatment from these options, and need not venture any further.
But there are more - after all, this is big business, remember? There are air purifiers and filters, both for personal use and for your car, and if you want the top of the range then you can have an ioniser. Or you can have a window filter or screen, a face mask (re-usable) or wrap-around eye protection.
You can even have air purifying light bulbs, steam cleaners, specially filtered vacuum cleaners, room sprays, dustmite-proof boilable pillows, laundry additives and sofa sprays. Have I exhausted the options available?
No, because there are also special mattresses for your bed, and water additives. There's very expensive pollen blocker balm to put up your nose (you can do the same with very cheap Vaseline or petroleum jelly and it's just as good), and there are even "acupressure bands" - just an expensive way of using acupressure (on only one of several possible pressure points) to bring relief.
No doubt there are more, all of them promising effective and often instant allergy natural relief from a wide range of allergies, not just hay fever. How can you judge whether any particular one may be right for you?
Only by finding out as much as you can about your own particular allergy. For example, if you believe you are allergic to peanut butter, it may be that the actual cause is an ingredient in peanut butter, and that ingredient may be present in other things you may eat. There may be a kind of peanut butter that doesn't have that ingredient and that you can therefore eat safely.
Most importantly, if you find out from a skin prick test exactly what it is that causes your allergy problem then you know how you can best bring relief to that problem. It's unlikely that any given allergy can be dealt with equally effectively by, for example, either a window filter or through a homeopathic remedy.http://www.allergy-zero.com/effective-ways-to-cure-allergies/
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