8 Ways to Help Your Family Fight Allergies
It’s just about that dreaded time of year…allergy season. I don’t know what’s worse – the agitated eyes, runny nose, or sore throat. All I know is that my family has suffered through allergy season one too many times. This year, we are getting a head start by using these 8 Ways to Help Your Family Fight Allergies.
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8 Ways to Help Your Family Fight Allergies
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1. Bathe more frequently: After going outside, be sure to put your kids in the shower to wash off the pollen, dust, and other allergens.
2. Use a saline flush: To help with nasal congestion, use a saline flush and bulb syringe (for young children).
3. Keep your windows closed: Don’t allow outdoor allergens to follow you inside. Keep your car windows and house windows closed.
4. Play outside wisely: Experts suggest that the pollen levels typically peak around noon – early afternoon. To avoid extra exposure to allergens, try to only be outside in the morning and evening.
5. Gargle with salt water: For sore throats associated with allergies, gargle with warm salt water (be sure not to swallow). Other sore throat remedies that work for my family include OTC anti-inflammatory drugs, lemon water, drinking broth, and sucking on ice.
6. Wear a mask: If experiencing severe allergies when going outside, wear a mask when completing yard work, going on walks, etc.
7. Utilize steam: When suffering from allergy symptoms, turn on the shower, shut the door, and let the steam work its magic on your congestion and sore throat.
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Thank you for these great tips. And the sunglasses look really cute.
Great tips! We’re going to try some of these.
My husband and son have allergies, so I know how much they suffer. Great tips!
I try to keep everything in the house as clean as possible. It seems to help since we have a dog that sheds.
These are very helpful tips. The girls will love those sunglasses.
Wear allergen glasses? Too cool! Never knew these even existed. These are wonderful tips, my daughter suffers from sinusitis.
I love that beautiful ray of light over your child-so precious! Anyhow, we try to keep the windows closed to prevent pollen from coming in and we do use saline rinses.
We are fairly lucky in our house for allergies. These are great tips to help keep allergies at bay.
Awesome tips. Allergies are never fun and it’s nice if you can do everything you can to keep them out of your home. It’s hard but worth the effort.
Those glasses are cute and what a great idea! I’ll have to pass along this info to help with my nephew’s spring allergies. These are all great tips in general so thank you!
These are all really great tips! We already do most of these! Will have to get busy working on the rest! Thanks!
It is hard to believe that it is going to be allergy season again here soon for us!! Great tips for dealing with allergies!
Great tips. I started using a bit of coconut oil mixed with eucalyptus oil and that really helps a lot!
Those glasses sound perfect for playing outdoors year-round. My kids have allergies in late summer & early fall
How have I NEVER heard of Allergen Glasses? WOW… and all of us suffer from allergies. This is so cool. i am off to read more. Thanks for sharing.
As someone who’s suffered with allergies since a very young age, I know all too well how much of a difference something as ‘little’ as frequent hand washing can make. I sure wish they’d had those glasses when I was younger.
Cleaning after going outside makes so much sense, it’s so simple, it’s genius! These sunglasses are also pretty neat- I like how they don’t look dorky or overwhelming!
Fortunately for us we really do not have a lot of allergies in our house. My best friend has terrible allergies I had no idea that you can get sunglasses to help with that. I’m kind of excited to tell her about that.
I try to keep the house as free of dust as possible. I do a lot of vacuuming and linen washing to keep down allergens that make their way into the house.