Don’t Blame your Allergies on the Cottonwood's Summer Snow

Don’t blame your allergies on the Cottonwood's summer snow from the female tree.

As the fluffy snow-white seed hairs of the Cottonwood starts to fly, covering the ground and plugging window screens and just about everything else, many people blame the trees for the on-set of their allergy symptoms.

Although the start of the sneezing, stuffy nose and watery eyes seems to coincide with “summer-time snow," it is not the offender.  Pollen counts for male cottonwoods spike several weeks before female cottonwoods cast their seed pods – and all that white hair.  The male pollen is a yellow-greenish powder that can cause a major overload on your immune systems.  By the time the females are letting their seeds fly the male’s pollen is spent. 

The sad thing about this whole affair is that the female cottonwoods get blamed for the pollen from the male trees and then people chop them down.  But in truth, female trees are great air cleaners.  So for every female tree that is cut down it makes the air around you that much more allergenic.

Fireweed is another shrub that blooms around the same time as the Cottonwood and is often wrongly accused as well.  The Fireweed's pollen is sticky and travels on the legs of honeybees.  It is not airborne.

In North America and worldwide, allergy seasons are starting sooner and lasting longer.  The pollen cycles of trees and grasses are overlapping more and more.

But don’t blame the Cottonwood’s white hair as it floats by.  In rule of thumb, if you can see the pollen it’s not the culprit causing your allergy symptoms.  It’s more of a nuisance that is clogging up your filters and screens but keeping the air free washed!

For all the trees and grasses that do cause your immune systems to go haywire don't wait to start taking Allergena's new Seasonal Allergy Tabs.  Get a jump on allergy season before your symptoms start. 

Allergena is a Homeopathic Sublingual Immunotherapy that reduces the body's negative reaction to allergens. The  allergy drops build immunity by exposing your body in micro doses to whatever it is that you are allergic to. This way, the body becomes safely conditioned to tolerate the allergens that previously brought on allergic reactions, and ultimately reduce allergic symptoms. 

Summer Allergies

How to survive summer allergies without living in a bubble.

All across the country weather alerts are reporting record-breaking pollen counts.  And on top of that, there are 14 wild fires raging throughout 8 states with temperatures across the mid-west way above average. 

It’s no wonder our immune systems have become trigger happy, jumping at every little foreign body they sense.  I thought my son’s thumbs moved at lightning speed on his game controller when he played a shot’em up video but they have nothing on our immune systems power to attack and destroy.

 In fact, many individuals who have never had allergies find that they are suddenly developing them. Children seem to be the biggest sufferers.  Asthma is on the rise and no one is without a tissue or bottle of eye drops.

So, besides living in a bubble what’s an allergy sufferer to do?

Minimize the allergens in your house by keeping doors and windows closed.  Regularly clean the AC filters and duct system.  A professional air duct cleaning company can also spray an anti-allergen agent in your ducts to kill any lurking allergens or molds.  Vacuum and dust several times a week. Leave your shoes at the door so you are not tracking in pollen.  We even had friends install a simple outdoor shower so that they could wash off any allergens from their persons as well. 

Change your bedding often or at least your pillow cases.  

On days when the pollen counts are high or it is windy, stay indoors.  Allergy Tracker can help you follow the pollen counts in your area.
 

Hire someone to cut your grass.  When you go out don a hat and large sunglasses. Just take them off if you are going into the bank!  

Use a cold, wet wash cloth to help with irritated eyes or even a slice of cucumber can work miracles.

Keep your rain stick handy and use it often.  Nature is a wondrous cleaner.

Nature is also a great provider for natural remedies.  Meditrend has developed Seasonal Tabs, using nature’s ingredients to form this new, sublingual, chewable allergy tabs which contain antigens of over 140 different trees, weed and grasses.

So, see, you don’t have to live in a bubble, just be a little more clean, stay indoors when the pollen count is sky high and take Season Tabs!

Red Cedar - What is Cedar Fever?

Red Cedar - What is Cedar Fever?

FEELS LIKE YOU HAVE A FEVER!

Eastern Red Cedar, aka Red Cedar; Eastern Juniper; Red Juniper; Pencil Cedar; Aromatic Cedar; Call it whichever you wish, symptoms from this allergic reaction feel like a fever.

This beautiful tree, used often as a Christmas tree, is a terrible culprit of Cedar Fever.  Symptoms may include sinus congestion, sneezing, coughing, irritated eyes and low-grade fever. Often the you seek a remedy that reduces these symptoms but they do not reduce your allergy to Cedar. 

Allergena - Texas Trees

Allergena - Texas Trees for kids

is a Homeopathic Sublingual Immunotherapy that reduces the body's negative reaction to allergens. Our homeopathic allergy drops build immunity by exposing your body in micro doses to whatever it is that you are allergic to. 

Try Allergena, offering Homeopathic Sublingual Immunotherapy in Zone 5 (Texas and Oklahoma.) Survive the holiday season without the use of heavy antihistamines and cold medications.

Red Eyes During Allergy Season

What causes red eyes during allergy season and is there hope?

It doesn’t take more than 5 minutes to be ambushed by pollen and mold spores once you close your front door.  It is an endless battle and why over 5 million people despise allergy season. 

Between the already pollen-laden air and lawn mowers and weed eaters blasting loathsome grass pollen and mold spores in a 360 degree arc it is no wonder our eyes glow red and swell like ripe melons.  And one has to wonder why even after drops and cold compresses our eyes continue to feel raw and packed with sand.

As with all people who have allergies, your immune system suffers from a deplorable lack of self-control.  At one point a single allergen entered your body and your immune system mistook it for evil and set off a chain of events that would eventually cause you major despair.  And now, even the tiniest particle of benign pollen can cause the apocalypse of all allergy attacks.
 

The attack triggers the release of histamines. As they are released into your system, they cause the tissue in your body to swell so that immune cells can enter and fight to the death all invaders.  The reason for the itchy red eyes is the immune cells don’t just enter into your body, they also leak out of your body, hence the vampire eyes.

And though turning your eyes and nose into a working faucet help flush out the pollen, it can also lead to a dreadful time outside.  Luckily, there is hope. 

Sublingual Immunotherapy is a method of allergy treatment that uses an allergen solution given under the tongue. Over time, sensitivity to allergens are reduced. In 1998 the World Health Organization concluded that Sublingual Immunotherapy was a viable alternative to the injection route and that its use in clinical practice is justified.

Allergena has developed allergy relief for where youlive.  Each formula is geographically zoned for the specific trees and grasses known to cause allergy symptoms.