tips on how to tackle symptoms naturally.
So our health and wellness expert, Teresa Meacham.
Teresa, welcome back. Thank you.
It's good to be here. It's great to have you. Tell me.
So I am one who succumbs to allergies every season.
And I do love natural alternatives to, you know,
some of the over counter medications that we turn to.
What do you recommend?
Well, I think there are a lot of different things you can try.
And some of it does depend on what your symptoms are.
I always recommend going within things first,
and then you work up to the heavier hitters
because those tend to have more
of the side effects that we don't want,
whether they're short term or long term side effects.
So I am more of a let's try the nasal and the throat sprays,
let's try the teas, let's try the homeopathic things before
we go right to the heavy antihistamines.
Which totally makes sense. Be easy on your body.
Don't give it more that it has to fight with. Yes.
So let's talk about some of those tips.
What what's on that list of things?
When you have the symptoms, what do you turn to first?
The first thing that I actually turn to is
what can we pull out?
What are some of the things that we can do?
And and that's looking at the air quality of your home,
that's looking at how you clean your home,
even things as simple as do you wear tennis shoes inside
that can be something big
where you're dragging allergens inside of your house.
A big thing is just regularly vacuuming
and dusting your home with a HEPA filter.
Simple things. Very simple.
They should make a part of it anyway. Yes.
And I think we think
because they're simple, oftentimes we think,
they don't make a difference, but it's really
the sum of the parts that make a difference.
It might not make a difference
if you take your shoes off one day,
but if you do that every day along with
some of the other things, then it can make a big dent.
Now, you mentioned air quality.
Should we have air purifiers
in our home or are you talking about
just switching out the furnace, an air conditioner filter?
Ideally both. Yeah.
Start with the furnace,
that air filter and just be really regular
about getting really good filter and switching that out
every three three months and then work up from there.
And especially if you have someone in your house
who tends to have a lot of allergy symptoms, maybe
look at getting a portable air purifier for their bedroom.
Okay, Now what are some other things?
Because I think on your list you had personal care products.
Yes So you can look at your body. It's like a bucket.
And if you fill it up with toxins
or things
that trigger allergens, eventually
you're going to overflow and you're going to have symptoms.
So when I look at personal care products, I'm looking at,
do you have a gluten sensitivity and are you using products
that have gluten in it?
So not only
are you having these seasonal allergens
now, you have something with an allergen
that you're putting on your body every day.
So I think that's addressing what's in the personal care
products that you're using every day
and pulling anything off
that has toxins or things that irritate your body.
Awesome.
And then you talk a lot about cleaning up your diet.
That has a big impact
on your overall health, including allergies.
It does.
And amazingly enough, some people just through
cleaning up their diet, actually find that
a lot of their symptoms, their allergy symptoms go away.
Okay.
So that's more of a long play.
That's kind of a long game.
But it is something that if you're looking
at a holistic approach to allergies,
you do want to clean up your diet and basically like
let's just kind of start
pulling the inflammatory oils, the added sugars,
and that's mostly just processed food.
You can eat real food.
Yeah, processed food definitely impacts me.
So I'm with you there on eating healthy.
Let's talk about the root.
We're almost out of time, so I know sometimes, you know,
when we have the symptoms, we try to address the symptoms.
But ultimately, going back to the root
of what's causing it in the first place.
And again.
It's a big deal.
This is a long play,
but the root of a lot of allergy symptoms is actually our gut.
So if we can go. Back to your. Diet, right?
Yes. If we can heal our gut and some of that is food
sensitivities, things that we talked about like gluten
a lot of people are sensitive to.
And if you pull that from the diet, maybe not forever,
but just for a little while during a healing period,
then you actually heal the gut,
You seal it
and you don't start to have these symptoms
and you find that you can tolerate it again later.
that's so interesting.
So allow your body a chance to heal.
It gets better, and then you might be able
to eat more of what you couldn't before.
So absolutely.
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