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Archive for May, 2010

Allergy season could be worse than usual this year
SOUTH BEND — The itchy, watery eyes. The sniffling and sneezing. It’s allergy season, but this year’s warmer temperatures could mean a long season for those who suffer from the springtime symptoms.

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I want to get rid of the nasty dark coin-sized spots I got after I had an allergy. They’re found on my legs. I’ve been reading a lot of articles lately about laser pulse light treatments that get rid of them, but I’m not yet ready to pursue that kind of procedure (plus, I hear they’re quite expensive). Thanks!!!

Canada recalls Mrs. Dunster’s ginger snaps
OTTAWA, May 24 (UPI) — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning people allergic to milk proteins not to consume Mrs. Dunster’s-brand ginger snaps due to a labeling error.

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It claims to be a miracle allergy treatment that works by reprogramming your body through a cold laser treatment, or something to that effect. I’m not really interested in hearing why the skeptics are skeptical, I’m interested in people with firsthand experience.

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This is a treatment offered by doctors and reportedly approved by the FDA. It doesn’t appear to be an internet/drug store scam. I’m looking for comments from people who have gotten this treatment.

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In the new series, Alergy Alert, Maggie Rodriguez spoke with Allergist Dr. Jonathan Field about how to tell the difference between a cold and allergy symptoms.

We can get numerous allergies in our environment but one of the allergies that can be treated is a bee sting allergy. The allergy occurs once the people have an unusually high sensitivity to bee stings; this can cause a physical reaction and can put your life in endanger.

Anyone of us could experience the allergic reactions to bee stings. The survey says that mostly of the people that die from the severe allergic reactions to bee stings every and each year than from snake bites, only small amount of people who suffer with bee stings which actually could suffer from fatal reactions and can end one’s life and die.

The causes of these are; once the immune system develops antibodies and other disease fighting cells in response to an allergen, that an allergic reaction starts to develop. Our antibodies release chemicals that actually destroy the surrounding cells and lead to physical symptoms of an allergic reaction.

The antibodies discharge some histamine, which may impinge on the skin, mucous gland or membrane and even smooth muscle cells.

Typically the first sting doesn’t produce severe reactions and multiple stings do. Only for someone who has severe allergic reactions to bee stings that experiencing extreme symptoms to a single bee sting. This may be life threatening allergic reactions that happens without any other symptoms of allergy.

Dry Cough where in the eye starts to itch and swell are the beginning symptoms of the bee sting allergy. As the symptoms goes the patient starts sneezing and wheezing and develop hives to itch. This is the warning sign of a dangerous condition called anaphylaxis. Symptoms also include weakness, tightness in the chest area difficulty in breathing, very low blood pressure, shock and loss of consciousness. And for anyone who suffered from anaphylactic shocks needs an immediate medical treatment cause it only occur a few minutes and result in death.

An epinephrine injection is given to the patient suffering from anaphylactic shock. It is a hormone that stimulates the heart and relaxes the airways. In some cases this injection is given with an antihistamine to counteract the histamine that is produced in the immune system.

Be reminded that once you are victim from allergic reactions to bee stings; avoid situations where you might get stung. If you have some adventures such locations, be sure you carry with your self a kit with antihistamine tablets or injections for an emergency situation. Desensitization programs are given to the people who are severely allergic to bee stings where bee venom injections are administered in increasing doses till the body shows with tolerance to the venom.

An allergy specialist should do this not any ordinary people. This may take between 15 – 20 weeks for the body to develop immunity. And monthly booster shot is always available afterwards. In a summary, we should take immediate care when we get a gee sting. If not we will suffer the consequences. The easiest way is to go to a nearest hospital for an immediate treatment.

I am continually developing allergic reactions to medications and it is really getting bad. Tonight, I took aspirin and broke out in hives and my eyes swelled together. That leaves only Tylenol for me to take when I have pain. What happens when I develop an allergy to it? I have yo-yo ANA, speckled. C-3 and C-4 is yo-yo as well, so I have not been diagnosed with Lupus.

Does it inflame your nose on the inside or what. And Why? And why does your eyes water over a little pollen? And why does pollen simulate a cold?

I have nasel allergy (house dust), two years back, doctor advised me to get an operation to remove polyps. I felt better after the operation but my allergy was not completely gone. I understand that the surgery should be followed by laser theropy. Should I go for it, Can I expect recovery after laser treatment?

Conventional allergy treatment consists of two main approaches: symptom suppression and desensitization. Symptom suppression uses various medications to reduce the release of and/or the effects of circulating immune chemicals like histamine. Reduction of the amounts or effects of these chemicals reduces the severity of the body’s allergic reaction and things like congestion, irritated eyes, and skin reactions diminish. In severe allergies, steroids like cortisone may be used to drastically suppress the body’s inflammatory immune response.

The other main conventional approach to treating allergies is gradual desensitization, which is done using allergy shots. Allergy shots deliver small amounts of the person’s allergens into the body on a regular basis. The concept here is that over time the body will grow accustomed to the allergen and stop reacting as strongly to it. Basically, the idea is that the body will get “tired” of producing an immune response to the allergen if it encounters it often enough. Allergy shots are effective at eliminating allergies in many cases, but it is a slow process. There is a new way of desensitizing the body to allergens that is much faster and does not require injections, as we’ll discuss shortly.

You’ll need a bit of background information before I begin discussing this new form of allergy treatment. This method of treatment is based on the concept of the energy field of the human body and it utilizes a system known as muscle testing or “applied kinesiology” to evaluate changes in energy flow. Acupuncture is a system of healing that has been around thousands of years. It is based on the flow and interaction of subtle forms of energy in the body. While this is still a new concept in Western medicine, energy healing is widely accepted in many parts of the world. Medical doctors often dismiss outright the concept of an energy field around the body, yet the existence of this field is easily demonstrated, as anyone who is “muscle-tested” will experience.

You may have heard of homeopathy. As with acupuncture, it is also based on the concept of energy fields, in the body, as well as in substances and organisms that may interact with the body. In essence, homeopathic remedies are energy “signatures” of substances not the actual substances themselves. Just as you can store electronic information on a computer disc, energy signatures can be imprinted on purified water and other substances. The stored energy signatures in the homeopathics can then be used to treat the body.

As mentioned above, the existence of the human energy field is easily demonstrated. One of the simplest and yet most effective means of assessing the flow of energy around and within the body is something called muscle testing. Every muscle in your body is controlled by nerves, which transmit electrical signals. If the body’s energy field is disrupted, the electrical signals of the nerves are interfered with, and so the muscles cannot function at full capacity. It’s sort of like a light on a dimmer switch. When the power to the light is flowing at full capacity, the light is bright. When the flow of electricity is interfered with (by means of the components of the dimmer switch), the light dims. If the nerve signals to your muscles are “dimmed”, the muscle appears weak. In muscle testing, we assess energy pathways by touching points on the body or by contacting the body with a substance to check the body’s reactivity to it. Although any muscle in the body can be used for testing, one of the most popular tests uses the deltoid muscles. The basic procdeure involves having the person being tested hold his or her arm straight out to the side at shoulder level and the person doing the testing pushes down on the arm at the wrist or forearm. When an energy reaction occurs, the person being tested will be unable to resist the downward push from the tester where they had been able to easily resist before.

There are many critics of muscle testing who claim that it is a hoax. I used to think that myself. Certainly there are ways to “cheat” the test to make it show what you want it to show. All of these tricks are easily detectable if you pay attention to what’s happening. Among the more common tricks to produce a weak response when the tester wants it are: the tester pushes harder or faster, the tester lifts up on the arm (triggering muscle relaxation) prior to pushing down, or the tester changes the angle, or shifts the leverage of the push. I myself have witnessed a lot of muscle testing where the outcome was controlled by the tester. Such experiences led me to conclude that muscle testing was a bunch of garbage. A few years ago, I attended a seminar that changed my mind. I came to understand the proper way to do muscle testing. Following that, I came to recognize what a valuable tool muscle testing actually was for assessing the body.

Allergy and Sensitivity Elimination and Reprogramming Technique (ASERT)is the newest method of dealing with allergy problems in the body. This is a method that uses muscle testing and homeopathic substances to evaluate the body and then uses a form of acupuncture point stimulation to reduce the body’s sensitivities to allergens. This is a relatively new technique that is an updated version of an older, but more widely-used method called NAET (Nambudripad Allergy Ellimination Technique).

NAET, like many remarkable discoveries, was stumbled upon by accident by Devi Nambudripad, a chiropractor and acupuncturist. She had suffered for years with numerous severe allergies and food sensitivities and she was on an extremely restricted diet because of her many food sensitivities. Supposedly, one evening she was preparing dinner for her husband and, without thinking, took a bite of carrot, which she was quite allergic to. Immediately, she started to have an allergic reaction and she decided to ride it out using some acupuncture to help her through it more easily. She placed acupuncture needles to stimulate all of the energy channels in the body and laid down to rest. When she awoke, she felt unusually good and noticed that in her haste, she had not washer her hands and still had some carrot on her skin. On a hunch, she ate a bite of carrot and found she did not react to it as before. She then tried using the same procedure for other foods she was allergic to and discovered that the acupuncture stimulation eliminated those reactions as well. From there the method has grown and there are various modifications and offshoots of it, including ASERT, the technique I use.

With ASERT, I use muscle testing to test for reactions to various allergens and then desensitize the body to any allergens I find using laser acupuncture. The laser is particularly good for this technique because it is completely noninvasive and painless and can go right through most clothing, negating the need for the patient to disrobe. In using this technique the last few years, I have discovered some additional tricks to make it even more effective. For most cases, significant reduction in all types of allergies and sensitivities can be achieved in 1 to 10 visits. This treatment is long lasting (it usually “holds” for at least several months) and is often permanent. A few interfering factors can come into play with the effects of treatment, such as heavy metal toxicity or particularly heavy exposure to the desensitized allergens, but these are rare.

Although they are a bit difficult to believe at first, ASERT and NAET are both highly effective in the majority of cases. They are gaining popularity and practitioners of these techniques can usually be located in most major cities.

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Nowadays, there are lots of people who are facing the acne problems. I was facing the same problem, when I first heard about the laser acne treatment to my friends. Laser acne treatment is a normally a very much easy process. It is very helpful in reducing skin problems like skin allergy spots etc. Normally there are many types of laser treatments which are different. Different acne problem have different type of Laser treatment. But we need to consult a proper skin specialist who can tell which laser treatment is required for your ailment.    

Since antibiotics fail because of their over dose, lots of people are seen to be going for the latest procedure of Laser Treatments. In these treatments, a medical doctor lights the laser pen where the acne mark tissue is present. He then influences the intense ray of light to and fro, vaporizing only the tissue which is unnecessary and making a fresh shell for skin cell expansion. This process of lighting, vaporizing, shelling is called as laser resurfacing. Fresh collagens are shaped after such type of laser treatment.

While a laser treatment is secure and simple in majority of the cases, a few post technical staining and inflammation are normal. In mainly cases, these side effects persevere for 7 to 10 days. Doctors suggest being patient and waiting for make-up application on such skin till this goes off.

There are also some different ways to get better acne treatments with lasers. This method contains using a chemical that secrets follicles and oil glands so that it becomes susceptible to light, and application of lamps or lasers such as the Intense Pulsed Light,. Also the other method is the usage of an infrared laser, which while cooling the skin down aims at the development of oil glands as it is a major factor that stats acne.

There are also a few threats of unhelpful side effects that could result from laser acne treatments. These include an long-term not able to seeing any progress; dimming of the skin, more often than not provisional; rising blisters; easing of the skin, provisional or enduring; and scarring, an unusual side effect.

There are lots of companies, which are providing all kind of skin treatments. I know such type of beauty salon, which is located in Harrows and beauty salon name is Glo unisex hair & beauty. Glo provides all type of skin treatments in reasonable price. I got the benefits from here. I guarantee, you will also get the benefits form here.

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