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Tips to Manage Your Egg Allergy

After cow’s milk, hen’s egg allergy is the second most common food allergy in infants and young children. If you have an allergy to eggs, talk to y...

Sinus Problems: Do Antibiotics Help or Hurt?

Patients with painful sinus problems often plead with their doctors to give them an antibiotic ASAP. About 60% to 70% of people with sinus infectio...

Wheat Allergy

Wheat allergy is an allergic reaction to eating foods containing wheat, and in some cases, inhaling wheat flour. Durum, durum flour, and durum whea...

What are Histamines?

When you come across your allergy trigger, your immune system knows it and launches a chain reaction to defend you. When they leave the mast cells,...

Soy Allergy

Other names that may mean soy ingredients. Soy protein is a product of soybeans and it’s in many foods. If you are allergic to soy, your immune sys...

Skin Allergies and Contact Dermatitis: The Basics

It takes at least 10 days to become sensitive to something after your first contact with it. But once you develop an allergy, you could have a reac...

What is Sinusitis?

You'll need to see your doctor to find out if you have sinusitis. If your doctor gives you antibiotics, you’ll probably take them for 10 to 14 days...

How to Treat Nasal Congestion and Sinus Pressure

Nasal congestion and sinus pressure have many causes: colds, the flu, and allergies to name a few. You shouldn’t use a decongestant nasal spray for...

What is Postnasal Drip?

Every day, glands in the linings of your nose, throat, airways, stomach, and intestinal tract produce mucus. Postnasal drip makes you feel like you...

Nut Allergy

Nut allergies are when your body’s immune system overreacts to the proteins found in nuts. Peanuts and tree nuts aren’t the same. Tiny proteins fou...

Medications to Treat Pollen Allergies

Steroids you take by mouth (oral steroids) are only used in rare cases to treat nasal allergies. The nasal sprays work on congestion, an itchy or r...

HEPA Filters for Allergies

If you are considering buying a HEPA filter, find out how much air that the filter can clean. Dust mites, mold spores, pollen, and pet dander in th...