Every spring, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America releases its “Spring Allergy Capitals” list, citing the most challenging cities for allergy sufferers to live in. Here’s the “top 5” list from the 2016 rankings: Jackson, Mississippi Memphis, Tennessee...
It was roughly 100 years ago that clinicians began to discover the effectiveness of sublingual (under-the-tongue) immunotherapy for allergies. It’s hard to discount the growing body of research in favor of sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) which involves...
Asthma has become a fast-growing health problem. While 1 in 12 people had asthma in 2001, by 2009, 1 in 14 people suffered with the disease (an additional 5 million sufferers).* While there is no place in the country that is free of asthma triggers, there are a few...
While medications such as pills, inhalers and steroid injections can all help with the symptoms of allergy, only immunotherapy has been shown to actually alter the underlying allergic disease. What’s more, it has been shown to prevent the development of future...
When the body detects pollens or other allergens in the environment, it reacts by releasing histamine and other chemicals into the body. Histamine has one main way of making itself known: inflammation. Where the skin is concerned, allergic inflammation leads to...
If your child needs allergy treatment, don’t lose hope if they are too young for allergy shots. (Most doctors don’t recommend shots until a child hits age 7.) Babies, toddlers, and young children can all be afflicted by allergies. (Allergies know no age limits.) If...
