The First Step in Managing Allergies
The First Step in Managing Allergies -- Create an allergen-free home and learn what triggers to avoid prevent and ease attacks -- All allergy practitioners -- from the most conservative to the most alternative--agree that environmental control should be your first "treatment." After all, it's natural, safe, and extremely effective. "The very best preventive measures are those that get the patient away from the cause of the problem," says Betty Wray, M.D., interim dean of the School of Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta and a past president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. "All the medications we give help blunt the response, but they don't do away with the problem." Environmental control isn't the same as "running away" from your current environment. In most cases, moving to a new climate such as the mountains or beach is an exercise in futility. "Some people even move to different par...