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  • ThirdAge Editors

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    I suffer from very bad hay fever in the spring, summer and fall. I take prescription antihistamines, but they don't even offer complete relief. Because I travel a lot for work, I'm always hoping that I'll have fewer symptoms, but it's pretty much a gamble. Any advice?

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    I certainly sympathize. Hay fever is uncomfortable, making it hard to concentrate and function properly. It seems that when you're packing for a trip, you have one extra thing to -- check out the pollen counts for the area you're traveling to. You can easily do that by visiting the American Academy read more...

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  • JillFallon

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    I've always assumed that the cleaner your home, the less likely you are to have asthma and allergy symptoms. Is that still the thinking?

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    The overly-sanitized Western world may be why the rates for allergy, asthma, type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis are soaring. Our immune systems aren’t being challenged by disease and dirt early in life and the result is they end up overreacting to small irritants.
    When kids grow up with read more...

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