If you find yourself developing a rash after wearing certain pieces of jewelry, you may have an allergy to nickel. This may surprise you because the rash probably seems to be coming from a piece of gold or silver jewelry, but those metals aren’t typically allergenic....
I grew up on a farm in Idaho, helping my dad bale hay, milk cows, drive the combine harvester, and perform many other chores that came with farm life. When spring and fall hit, misery struck. Pollen was in the air, and I was outside enough that I could feel its...
Perhaps you feel like there is perpetually something in your eyes, or maybe your eyes are maddeningly itchy and producing a watery discharge. These are all uncomfortable symptoms that may be traced to allergic conjunctivitis. Most everyone knows that allergies can...
If your primary care practice is like others in America, roughly 20 percent of your patients suffer from allergies. These may be allergies to pollen, dust, mold, pet dander, or food. Regardless, you know what it’s like to want to help these patients—and not just...
It’s a dry, windy day, and your allergies are making you miserable. You’re constantly sneezing, you’ve already blown through a whole box of tissue, and your eyes are maddeningly itchy. Yesterday wasn’t like this—could the weather really make such a big difference? The...
If you don’t remember much from your childhood about peanut-free lunch tables in the cafeteria or kids walking around armed with EpiPens, that’s because food allergies weren’t nearly as big of a deal as they are now. In the past few decades, there has been a meteoric...
