Things To Know About Allergies And Asthma

By Dr. Chris Cowell

Allergies and asthma may have related reactions but they are really different. Some of the body’s chemicals that are involved in allergies are also involved in asthma. An allergy is an inflammatory reaction to a specific substance. The allergic reactions involve nasal membranes, the eyes, the skin, the tongue, and the breathing airways in severe reactions. The symptoms of allergy includes itchy, stuffy or runny nose, sneezing, red, itchy irritated skin, and burning or watery eyes.

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory lung disease that causes difficulty in breathing. Just like allergies, the substances that trigger allergies can also trigger asthma attacks. If you notice indications of allergy, it means that irritants are present in the air and it can activate asthma symptoms which can lead to asthma attacks. If you have asthma and allergy, your immune system will react to fight off the allergens. Allergens are substances that set off the allergy reaction. The chronic swelling of airways causes the airways to be narrowed causing asthmatic people the difficulty in breathing.

Asthma as a disease is incurable, the treatment can go on for a long time but you should not be worry because it is not contagious. You can have asthma as young as you were a toddler until you reach adulthood. There are lucky individuals who will not experience asthma attacks anymore once they reached adolescence, however there is a big chance of asthma attacks again when they reached adulthood especially if they are expose to smoke or other irritants that trigger asthma symptoms.

Asthma and allergies go hand-in-hand. There are several types of asthma, one of these is allergic asthma that is triggered by allergens such as pollen or mold spores. During an asthma episode, the band of muscle that surround the airways tighten causing them to narrow, the lining of the breathe ways becomes swollen. These will result to asthma symptoms such as frequent cough; breathe shortness, wheezing, and chest tightness.

It doesn’t mean that if you are an allergic person you have the same symptoms every time. You may experience different symptoms every time, or may not experience all the symptoms at all times. Like allergy indications, asthma symptoms may also change from one asthma attack to the next. An attack may be acute during the first attack and chronic during the next attack. If you suffer from allergies and asthma, knowing the allergy-causing substance is the best way to reduce your chance from asthma attacks. As they say, “Prevention is better than cure”, asking help from a doctor is also beneficial to recognize and treat even mild symptoms to help prevent severe asthma attacks and keep your asthma in control.

About the Author:

There are many allergy information institution that educates everyone about allergy and asthma. America’s Allergist offer allergy video care for everyone.

Are there anti-oxidant vitamins to treat allergies or asthma?

My father asked The Allergy Dude recently this question.  What about vitamin E?  Some small trials and retrospective studies have been done to investigate if vitamins can reduce the signs or symptoms of allergic diseases.  The short answer is NO, unfortunately.  In some other diseases, the answer can be yes sometimes.  For example, in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), in moderate and severe cases, the vitamins and mineral zinc helped to prevent further losses.  This link explains the findings of a multi-center trial very well.  AMD involves the retina, which is located in the back of the eye.  Cataracts are located in the lens of the eye, which is in the front, to clarify.  Cataracts are not prevented or slowed in development by any vitamins or minerals. If you know some one with AMD, please share this fact with them.

Allergies can make you itch, OOOHHH Allergies...

Sound familiar? Yeah, I wish it didn’t. Today I’m fairly miserable. I feel like I’m in a major fog. So tired. My allergies have been keeping me up at night, and making me feel lousy during the day too. Itchy, sniffling, irritated. It’s so hard to be positive!

But, it did make me think of a song from my childhood. Fred Penner was always a favorite, and I remember singing this song over and over as a child. I wish I could post all the lyrics, but I can’t find them anywhere online! Weird. So here’s the chorus. It totally sums up how I feel.

Allergies can make you itch. Oh Allergies.

Allergies can make you twitch. Oh Allergies.

You sneeze and wheeze, sniff and hack.

Go away, and never come back!

Oh, where do they come from, how long will they stay?

Will I always feel this way?

I’ll be so happy when farming slows down for a while, and I can breathe properly once more. Between farm dust/smoke and all the pollen and spring “stuff” floating around, I’ve had enough!

What Your Doctor Hasn"t Told You About Vaccinations Could Put Your Child at Risk for Autism, Asthma, Allergies, Diabetes or Cancer

Attention Parents:

What Your Doctor Hasn’t Told You About Vaccinations Could Put Your Child at Risk for Autism, Asthma, Allergies, Diabetes or Cancer.

Get the facts about vaccine risks
before you take any steps to vaccinate your child!

 

From the Desk of Tim O’Shea DC

Author and Instructor, Childhood Immunology

 

Dear Concerned Parent,

Do you have doubts whether vaccines can really protect your child from illness or disease? Do you worry that your child could become autistic, or develop asthma, allergies or even a fatal childhood disease, like Sudden Infant Death syndrome? These are not theories. Millions of American infants have these conditions today. Yet most other countries recommend less than half the vaccines we do.

What you’re about to read may come as a shock. It did for me when I first began to research vaccines and their effect on the body over a decade ago. Hundreds of hours of digging into the medical literature and checking the facts compelled me to speak out.

Much of what I discovered was in conflict with the way most of us are taught to care for our children. Let’s face it — most parents agree to have their newborn child vaccinated and believe it is the right thing to do. It’s what their parents did, and it’s what their doctors recommend. Once they start, the child goes on to receive numerous vaccinations year after year, up through their teens. All the while you, the parent, continue to think you’re doing the right thing.

Well. . .as it turns out, it’s often a mistake.

What you’ll see when you peek behind the curtain of the multi-billion dollar drug and vaccine cartels should scare the life out of you. . .because your child is being put in harm’s way more than you are being told.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
comments on the cover-up:
Vaccines, Mercury/ thimerosal & Autism
(4 min.)
To replay video, click the arrow or drag the left white ball to the left.

 

The Harsh Truth

Whether or not to vaccinate is a decision only you can make.

Sadly, it’s not likely you can turn to your pediatrician for help with this decision. You see, most doctors have staked their reputations and their financial well-being on the assumed safety and effectiveness of vaccines. They are bound by their profession to promote vaccinations.

But there’s another point of view, just as valid.

You’re about to discover that

 

vaccination is big business and big money for doctors, for the drug companies and for the government; vaccines are by no means proven safe, as you are being led to believe.

You deserve to know the facts. 

You deserve to have access to the information being put forth by doctors, scientists, and researchers all over the world who are speaking out today — the facts can no longer be denied.

Some top scientists in the field of human genetics go so far as to say it’s an outright assault on children and the future of the human race.

One Canadian physician, Dr. Guylaine Lanctot, puts it this way:

 

“The medical authorities keep lying. Vaccination has been an assault on the immune system. It actually causes a lot of illnesses. We are actually changing our genetic code through vaccination. . .100 years from now we will know that the biggest crime against humanity was vaccines.”

Renowned author and pediatrician, Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, is equally direct:

 

“The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunization. Much of what you have been led to believe about immunization simply isn’t true. If I were to follow my deeper convictions, I would urge you to reject all inoculations for your child.”

He goes on to say: 

“There is no convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood disease. If immunizations were responsible for the disappearance of these diseases in the U.S., one must ask why they disappeared simultaneously in Europe, where mass immunizations did not take place.”

 

 

No Proof of Safety

It might be shocking for you to hear this for the first time, but when you read about the history of vaccines and understand the financial forces that are in play, you may begin see the drug industry as an enormous machine, feeding off endless government funding for vaccines.

Remarkably, vaccination has never been clinically proven to be effective in preventing disease! I find this to be one of the most shocking discoveries of all, and so will you.

The double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, the gold standard of organized medicine, has never been used to compare vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals. No risk-to-benefit studies have ever been done. Vaccines remain scientifically unproven!

So while health authorities loudly credit vaccines for reducing disease and continually send the message that vaccines are safe, and necessary, the science isn’t there.

Many assumptions made by local clinics are directly contradicted by the most well regarded government statistics, published medical studies and the opinions of credible and highly respected research scientists all over the world.

In addition, reports coming out of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are finding the same contradictions.

Who Really Cares about Your Child?

Is it the vaccine manufacturers, who are behind virtually everything you have ever been told about the safety of vaccines? Dr. Samuel Katz, developer of the measles vaccine states, “Government doesn’t fund clinical studies of vaccines. Industry does.”

The current number of vaccinations your children will receive by the time they are 18 years old is an astounding 68!

And more vaccinations are on their way.

That is one gigantic cash industry, coming in at around $ 50 billion dollar annually.

Australian researcher Viera Scheibner, PhD, after investigating some 60,000 pages of medical literature on vaccination, summarized it:

 

“Immunizations, including those practiced on babies, not only did not prevent any infectious diseases; they caused more suffering and more deaths than has any other human activity in the entire history of medical intervention.”

Rep. Dan Burton & Dr. Andrew Wakefield
comment on the cover-up:
Vaccines, Mercury/ thimerosal & Autism
(4 min.)

 

But you can avoid this damage.

 

The One Resource They Don’t Want You to Read

I decided early on that I would take a stand for the truth regarding vaccines, no matter what the cost. I was determined to write a book that was referenced from the most legitimate, scientific sources, so that as a parent you could make the most informed decision.

Drug companies support medical journals with their advertising. FDA Advisory Committee members admit openly that they have financial ties to the vaccine manufacturers. It’s no secret.

What’s more, Congress passed a law exempting the liability of these companies. In other words, if your child is damaged or dies after vaccination, you can’t sue the vaccine company.

Now parents and people everywhere can have access to the facts. After 10 years of meticulous research, I created The Vaccine Seminar and the textbook for the seminar:

Announcing the new book. . .

Vaccination
Is Not Immunization
3rd Edition – 2013

 

National Health Interview Survey, United States, 1998--2009: Percentage of Children Aged less than 18 Years with Reported Food, Skin, or Hay Fever or Respiratory Allergies

I am copying the image and wording directly from the CDC’s website.  Households were randomly contacted and asked three questions: “During the past 12 months, has your child had any kind of food or digestive allergy?” and “During the past 12 months, has your child had eczema or any kind of skin allergy?” and a positive response to either “During the past 12 months, has your child had hay fever?” or “During the past 12 months, has your child had any kind of respiratory allergy?”

“From 1998–2000 to 2007–2009, the percentage of children who were reported to have a food allergy during the preceding 12 months increased from 3.5% to 4.6%, and the percentage who were reported to have a skin allergy increased from 7.3% to 10.7%. The percentage of children reported to have hay fever and/or respiratory allergy was 16.6% during 2007–2009, a level that did not differ substantially from earlier years.”   Food and skin allergies are increasing.

What is the Ideal Breed of Dog if You or a Loved One has Allergies?

Today’s entry is inspired by the Obama’s decision to allow their daughters to have a dog. The Obamas selected a Portuguese water dog, which was a gift from Senator Edward Kennedy. The Obamas decision was complicated by the fact that both of his daughters have allergies. The $ 64,000 question is “is there a breed of dog that is less likely to cause allergies?” Short answer: no. There is no proof in the scientific or medical literature that any one breed of dog is less allergenic than any other.

All mammals shed skin cells. Dogs are mammals, so dogs shed skin cells also, called dander. (Trivia: Humans shed skin cells also, but we give a special name, not dander, rather “dander-uff” or dandruff. Yep, that stuff we all battle coming especially from our scalps.) Let’s discuss some factors. Some breeds shed more dander than others, that is their skin cells grow and are lost faster. There’s the surface area issue: the more skin there is, the more dander can be shed, and vice versa. Dogs don’t really lick their fur much, so their saliva is not of a factor, unlike cats. Where is the dander ends up is really the issue. When the dog is indoors, then the dander will be shed indoors. That’s why allergists recommend the pets be kept outside. The further away from the sleeping space, the better. In otherwords, do not allow the pet in the bedroom and specifically pets should not be used as pillows. One other step will help, just like it does in humans. Frequent bathing with specific brushing of the fur when done outside and not by the person with allergies will reduce the amount of dander that is available to be shed indoors.

If you have questions about allergies, ask your doctor…