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Housecleaning Tips to Ease Allergies
Regular housecleaning can get rid of allergy triggers and help relieve your symptoms. It helps to know some cleaning tips. Common mistakes -- shampooing carpets or using heavily scented cleaners -- could make your allergies worse, not better. Here are some ways to keep your house clean and your alle
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6 Daily Habits That May Make You Sick
They say that home is where the heart is. But what you may not know is that it's also where 65% of colds and more than half of food-borne illnesses are contracted. The things we do around the house every day have a big impact on both our long- and short-term health. Here are six common household ac
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Are Allergies Ruining Your Beauty Plan?
Sniff, sniff. That's an all-too-familiar sound during allergy season, when thousands of allergy sufferers are reaching for tissues and rummaging through makeup bags to find the right cover-up for red noses or itchy, watery eyes. If this description hits close to home, you're not alone. Approximately
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Nasal Allergies and Household Mold
Do your nasal allergies linger well after the first frost? If so, you may have a mold allergy. Mold is found everywhere -- outdoors on leaves and rotting wood and indoors in damp basements and bathrooms. So mold allergies -- and allergy symptoms -- can happen year round. The symptoms of a mold aller
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Nasal Allergies: How to Pamper Your Nose
When seasonal allergies strike, your nose can really take a beating. A runny nose, congestion, and sneezing are among the most common allergy symptoms, and they can leave you with a red, sore, itchy nose. Here are some ways to help protect, pamper, and soothe your nose. A red, rough nose is the hall
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The Truth About Mucus
Mucus is something everyone has, and some people wish they had a lot less of the stringy, gooey stuff. Sure, it can be gross to blow globs of snot into tissue after tissue when you have a cold or sinus infection, but mucus actually serves a very important purpose. "Mucus is incredibly important for
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Does Honey Help Prevent Allergies?
In every issue of WebMD the Magazine, we ask experts to answer readers' questions about a wide range of topics, including some of the most cherished medical myths out there. For our March/April 2012 issue, we talked to Michael Palumbo, MD, an allergist with Allergy & Clinical Immunology Associates i
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Are You a Mosquito Magnet?
You’re trying your best to enjoy an evening cookout, but a constant swarm of mosquitoes follows you from grill to poolside. The threat? A pierce to your skin, leaving behind an itchy red welt and possibly even a serious illness. As you swat madly at the pests, you notice that others seem completely
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Neti Pot, Nasal Irrigation Pros and Cons
Chronic sinus or allergy problems can leave you feeling as though your nose is perpetually stuffed. To breathe freely again, many sinus sufferers rely on nasal irrigation, a technique that flushes out clogged nasal passages using a saltwater solution. "I find it to be the first line of defense in de
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Smog: Not an Allergen, but an Irritant
For people with allergies and asthma, sometimes the very air they breathe can be bad for their health. That’s because a variety of pollutants in our air -- collectively called smog -- can aggravate asthma and allergy symptoms, leaving people with these conditions struggling to breathe. Smog is a typ
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