How to Treat Allergies With Homemade Remedies

If you suffer from allergies, you're not alone. Millions of allergy sufferers search for ways to treat allergies every year. Many people prefer to use homemade remedies instead of conventional prescription or over-the-counter medications.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Prepare for Allergy Season

1. Start treatment at least 2 weeks before your typical allergy season with a drug-free nasal spray to coat the nasal passages. It's important to get ahead of the symptoms to be able to better control the allergy attack.
2. Maintain a healthy immune system throughout the year. Increase your intake of vitamin C to boost your immunity as you enter the allergy season.
3. Keep your overall health in shape with proper diet, routine sleep patterns and lowering your stress level. The use of natural anti-inflammatory herbs such as garlic, ginger and turmeric may be used to supplement your dietary intake.

Try Homemade Remedies First

4. Stay indoors when pollen producers are most active. This is usually between 5:00 and 10:00 in the morning. If it's hot and windy, try to avoid going outside at all.
5. Wear a filtration mask if you garden or mow the lawn.
6. Try a homemade remedy using a neti pot (see Resources below) to cleanse your sinuses. Mix warm water, baking soda and salt according to directions and pour into the sinuses. The technique flushes the sinuses in one nostril and out of the other.
7. Remove allergens such as dust mites and pollen from laundry using hot water at least 140 degrees F. For laundry where high temperatures are not recommended, a double rinse is an acceptable alternative.
8. Find homemade remedies for allergies such as hay fever are made with boiled minced grapefruit and lemon with a little honey added. Take this solution three times a day to treat allergies such as pollen.
9. Protect your nose from irritation due to allergies by applying a tiny bit of petroleum jelly inside each nostril. Inhale the fumes of boiled chamomile in water.
10. Know that lime is promoted as an effective homemade method to treat allergies. Squeeze half of a lime into a glass of lukewarm water. Use a tsp. of honey to sweeten. Taken once daily, this remedy is thought to act as an anti-allergic agent.

Tips & Warnings

• If you have an allergy to ragweed, avoid homemade remedies containing chamomile. Sunflower seeds, melons and bananas are in this category.

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