How Home Remedies Can Help You With Your Allergies

An allergy is an effect or response of your immune system to something. Usually a person has allergies when he or she is sensitive to more than one thing. The common causes of allergy can be pollen, food, dust mites, pet dander, medicines and insect stings. Allergies can make you sneeze, have rashes, swelling or asthma. Allergies are can make you feel very uncomfortable and some are even life-threatening. So do not take these for granted. You should consult your doctor. Though there are many home remedies which may help relieve the pain and discomfort you are feeling.

Here’s a list of home remedies you may want to try on the onset of your allergies:

• Use Saline Solution. You may try hosing down your nose with saline solution which is made of salt and water to ease the upper respiratory allergies which lodged in the nose causing inflammation. You can make your own saline solution by mixing a teaspoon of salt and a pinch of baking soda in a pint of warm distilled water. Go to a sink and bend over to sniff a small amount of the solution in one of your nostrils at a time. Making it drain back out through the nose. This should be done twice a day.

• Wash thoroughly. During pollen season you have to wash or bathe thoroughly because the yellow stuff tends to stick to your hair, body and clothes and these may cause you to sneeze and cough. When you get an allergy attack in the middle of the night you may take a hot shower to wash off the pollen. This may open your sinuses making you breathe easier. In case your eyes become itchy you may try rinsing your eyes with cool clean water.

• Steam. Use a streamer to refresh and soothe your sinuses to remove the nasal passages of

mucus. Try boiling water and pouring it to a basin. Gently lean over it and cover your head with a towel. Inhale and exhale the steam for five to ten minutes. When the water turns to warm dip a washcloth and hold it to your sinuses.

• Peppermint tea. People with allergies usually drink tea when their allergies shoot up. One of the

best teas is the peppermint tea because the essential oils work as a decongestant and has anti-

inflammatory substances and antibacterial constituents. You may make your own peppermint tea by placing half an ounce of peppermint leaves in a one quart jar of boiling water and steep for five minutes. You may also inhale the steam while waiting for the mixture cool down before drinking. You may add honey to sweeten.

• Take notice of the air around you. If you are in a polluted environment airborne toxins may

cause allergies or worsen your symptoms if you already have it. If you know that air pollution makes your allergies attack, you may want to avoid going outdoors during smoggy days or stay away from places where people are smoking. If you need to go out you may try wearing surgical mask. This will not totally eliminate the polluted air you may breathe but it would lessen it. You may also try keeping your windows close in spite of the inviting fresh air outside because pollen residues may enter and fill your house making your allergies work up.

Allergies affect millions of people and many use medications but sometimes these are not enough to give you relief and this can be frustrating. Home remedies may give you the relief you may be looking for.

Learn more about Natural Remedies for Allergies here.