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need to consider short term measures to address current symptoms
followed by a medium term plan. Here are five top tips:
1. If you suffer an allergic sneezing attack
one of the best things you can do to ease it is a face bath
with some saline water.
Ensure that the water enters the nose as this
will help to ease the inflamed membranes. Use mineral salts
or dead sea salts which are available from any chemist. Seawater
is excellent!
2. If your eyes water and go all puffy then
I recommend using some chamomile infusion as your face bath.
* Make your own by simply adding some boiled
water to a few teabags of chamomile and allow to cool.
* If you can get some dried Eyebright herb then add a teaspoon
of this in as well.
* You can bottle some of this infusion and using cotton wool
dab it on around the eyes throughout the day.
* You can use the same liquid as a nasal spray and it is quite
safe to use as an eyewash too.
3. If you don’t have time to make your
own then A.Vogel produce a Luffa Complex which has a combination
of different herbal remedies to assist in alleviating hayfever
symptoms as well as Potter’s Aller Clear eye drops,
nasal spray and capsules.
4. On a more medium/long term basis it is
very important to boost the immune system via the diet.
* This means cutting down on wheat and cow’s
dairy and to really help the body.
* I highly recommend giving up on the tea, coffee and alcohol,
certainly whilst the symptoms are around.
5. Using a local honey which contains pollens
collected by local bees may also provide some ‘natural’
immunity.
* You could alternate this with some Manuka
honey which has shown to have many beneficial properties for
immunity.
* On a long term basis gentle detoxification programmes can
be very supportive to the body, helping boost immunity.
* If the hayfever symptoms are just not shifting then it may
be worth working alongside a herbal or naturopathic practitioner
to get you onto a deeper programme.
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