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Allergic Rhinitis - Home Treatment

Allergic rhinitis is a long-term problem. It takes time and effort to control allergies through home treatment.

Avoid allergens

By avoiding or reducing your contact with allergens, you may be able to reduce your allergy symptoms and manage them without medicine or with fewer medicines. Controlling your contact with allergens and reducing your symptoms may also make it less likely you will develop complications such as sinusitis. You do this by:

For more information, see:

Allergies: Avoiding indoor triggers.
Allergies: Avoiding outdoor triggers.

Manage symptoms

If avoiding allergens does not relieve your symptoms or is not possible, you:

It is helpful to track your symptoms and how they affect you, such as when they keep you from sleeping, make it difficult to concentrate, or make you sleepy. Also track your allergens and how long after exposure to them you develop symptoms. This information will help your doctor prevent and treat the problem. You can keep a symptom diary(What is a PDF document?) to track this information.

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Last Updated: August 08, 2007
This information is not intended to replace the advice of a doctor. Healthwise disclaims any liability for the decisions you make based on this information.
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