{"id":3110,"date":"2006-06-05T08:40:26","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T13:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2022-03-21T15:48:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T20:48:43","slug":"its-allergy-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/05\/its-allergy-season","title":{"rendered":"It’s Allergy Season…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u2026and this year is a bad one. Patients have been contacting me with all sorts of the usual hay fever type symptoms: watery eyes, runny noses, sneezing, coughing<\/a>. My own allergies progressed to asthma and I was compelled to rummage around for an inhaler to use for a few days this month. (It\u2019s probably not the smartest move to use an old dust-covered asthma inhaler, but that old saying that doctors make terrible patients is often true.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antihistamines and steroid nasal sprays do work to quell hay fever symptoms, but are often terrifically expensive, especially if you don\u2019t have health insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natural products<\/a> can be quite effective, especially vitamin C, quercetin, and the herb stinging nettles, each of which acts like an antihistamine and which work even better when blended together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can buy these in an excellent combination product called Natural D-Hist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s available at many health food stores or from our apothecary by clicking this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2026and this year is a bad one. Patients have been contacting me with all sorts of the usual hay fever type symptoms: watery eyes, runny noses, sneezing, coughing. My own allergies progressed to asthma and I was compelled to rummage around for an inhaler to use for a few days this month. 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