Allergies allergies

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Hello, hello everyone! You're listening to Healthy Tunes Radio and I, Steve Walsh, will be your host. So, the spring has finally come, it'a getting warmer and warmer every day, and we can finally dress our favourite light clothes and spend free time outdoors. Great, huh? Apparently, not everyone thinks so. If you suffer from allergies, then the spring is probably the last season you are waiting for. While others enjoy the weather playing frisbee in a park you are constantly scratching your whole body and blowing your nose, or if your ailment is really severe you suffer from headaches and general tiredness. Well, no longer. Stay tuned to learn about easy ways to fight back allergy.

Your first line of defense is drinking water. Water will wash away at least some part of substances that elicit allergic reactions in your body. Keeping yourself well-hydrated will increase the effectiveness of this mechanism. You may have to visit a throne room a bit more often, but hey! that's a small price for relieving the symptoms of an allergy.

Apart from water, a mug of green tea can help you as well, or rather two to three of them daily to be more exact. It contains substances that inhibit allergic reactions which obviously makes them less severe and annoying to us. Some may not like its taste at the beginning, but you will get used to it sooner than you might think.

Eat things like apples, onions, berries, cabbage, cauliflower, nuts, and black, green, or white tea. They all contain quercetin, an another type of anti-oxidant that, among other things, increases lung's condition and reduces the effects of allergic reactions. Make sure that you include sources of this substance in your diet.

Nettles! Yes, Dear Listeners,  we all know that their stinging is healhy but we rarely know what exactly they do for us. Well, now you know that one of their effects on us is the reduction of allergiv reactions. If you don't like the idea of looking for nettles in a park and getting yourself stinged, you can always but them in form of a tee or a pill.

Finally, clean your nose regularly. Yes, even if it is clear and you don't have a runny nose. It is because pollen and other allergic substances are stopped inside your nose and once they pile up you begin to sneeze and suffer. That is why use salt-water to clean the your nose from the inside. You can either buy in in a drug store or make it by yourself, just mix water with sea salt. Check a pollen calendar and see when you should do that. During peak periods you may even need to do that as often as three times per day.

Alright folks, this is how your first line of defense against allergy should look like. Notice that these methods will only help you fight less mild effects of an allergy so if you are suffering from a severe one then you should refer to a medical help. Have a nice and joyful spring!