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If you’re a general practitioner, you may be looking for opportunities to increase medical practice revenue. One of the best ways to do this is by adding allergy treatment to your practice offerings. At least 20 percent of Americans suffer from allergies. That means...

Irritable bowel syndrome is a diagnosis often given to those who suffer with ongoing gastrointestinal troubles. Symptoms may include nausea, bloating, gas, cramping, diarrhea, and vomiting. There may be a number of things triggering these uncomfortable symptoms, but...

Though allergy treatment used to be the domain of allergists alone, many primary care physicians are now offering allergy treatment. People appreciate the chance to see a doctor they know and trust rather than being referred out, and primary care physicians appreciate...

Does eating fruits and veggies cause you discomfort in the mouth or throat? If so, you may have something called oral allergy syndrome (OAS). With OAS, you may experience itching, tingling, or swelling of the lips, mouth, or throat when you eat raw fruits or...

So you have allergies. What to do? Antihistamines and decongestants can take the edge off of symptoms, but they don’t address the cause of the allergies. In fact, the only treatment that has been shown to affect the underlying allergy is immunotherapy. Immunotherapy...

Eight major food items are responsible for about 90 percent of all food-related allergic reactions. Milk is one of those eight items, along with fish, shellfish, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, soy, and wheat. Milk allergies mostly affect children, but they can persist into...

There’s the old saying that you can be happy anywhere, but if you suffer from allergies, that may be easier said than done. Every year, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America ranks cities that are the most challenging for allergy sufferers to live in.   The...

Our health should be a paramount concern, but the bottom line is, most of us don’t have unlimited funds with which to address our health concerns. Thus, in matters that aren’t life-threatening (such as allergies), we may limp along without treatment because we simply...

At least 20 percent of people have allergies. That means that primary care physicians who see 20 patients per day will likely see four patients in the course of that day who struggle with some kind of allergy symptom. With environmental and food allergies on the rise,...

Roughly one in every 10 Americans has pet allergies. Both cats and dogs cause allergies, but cats are twice as likely to cause them as dogs are. The Source of the Allergy Many people think that a pet’s fur is the allergy trigger. However, the source of the allergy is...

You know the feeling—spring hits, your eyelids get puffy, and your eyes start to water and itch so badly that it’s almost unbearable. Your eyes may also make mucus that accumulates on your eyeball, obscuring your vision. The mucus may build up at night, leaving you...

One of the telltale signs of an allergic reaction is inflammation. When the lining of the nose swells, you get nasal congestion. When the throat swells, you get wheezing. When the skin swells, you get rashes such as eczema and hives. Hives are one of the more common...