Drug-Free "Natural" Alternative Blocks Allergens

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http://asthma.about.com/b/2008/09/30/drug-free-natural-alternative-blocks-allergens.htm

Airborne allergens are the most common asthma and allergy triggers. These include things like tree, grass, and weed pollen, including the currently active ragweed pollen, mold spores, dust mites, and animal dander. These tiny allergens float freely far and wide on air currents. You breathe them into your airways and that triggers the immune system chain of events that results in allergy symptoms and asthma symptoms.
The good news is there are many effective medicines available to deal with these symptoms, and in some cases to even prevent them. The bad news is, all of these medicines are man-made chemicals that carry a certain amount of risk of unexpected effects. Asthma and allergy medicines are considered quite safe, overall. Still, the risk of side effects is there.

Now, there is a new treatment from Chloraseptic that claims it can block allergens from getting into your airways in the first place. It's called Allergen Block (or Little Remedies for kids) and it's a clear gel you apply to your skin, around your nostrils and between your nose and upper lip.

The gel dries quickly, forming an invisible barrier that keeps allergens from being inhaled into your nose. How can a gel do such a thing? Well, it seems the gel is positively-charged, while allergens are negatively-charged. This opposition in the charges ends up repelling the allergens from the Allergen Block-protected areas. And without allergens -- no symptoms, unless you also have triggers that are not airborne allergens, such as perfumes or smoke. Allergen Block doesn't protect from irritants.

Allergen Block also works only in the nose for inhaled allergens. It won't protect you from eye allergies or skin allergies. Still, this product has no medicine in it, so it is perfectly safe to use, even for kids. It sounds as though it could be the ultimate natural allergy relief product.

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1. Here is more about the inventor--interesting

http://news.inventhelp.com/Articles/Medical/Inventions/allergen-block-12540.aspx

It was actually the inventor’s daughter who inspired the conception of the innovative anti-allergen. Ashok Wahi, a licensed engineer and longtime New Jersey resident (by way of New Delhi, India), watched for years as his daughter Aikta struggled to cope with her cat allergy. Unfortunately, standard medications were either ineffective or caused the young girl to become drowsy – a major problem when she began dosing off at school. “I wasn’t sure what was making my daughter more miserable - her allergies to cats or the medicines she was taking,” Wahi said. Eventually, the problem became bad enough that Wahi decided to seek out a new solution. Through his research, Wahi realized a different approach to combating the allergy conundrum was needed. So, using his engineering mind, he devised a gel with a positive electro-static charge - the polar opposite of the negative charge characteristic of most allergens. “Opposite charges attract one another, and so when the pollen comes into contact with the gel, it's trapped by this gel and prevented from going into the nose and causing the typical allergy symptoms," Wahi explained.

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2. foo

i discovered eating local honey once a day has pretty much cleared up my hayfever. need more tea. or honey on biscuits. OR, eat s spoonful a day.
worked for me.

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3. might work for pollen, but I doubt if it works for cats n/t

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4. Honey works for me also.

I think it even helps with animal allergens.Can't prove it of course but I do live in a house that has 9 dogs,4 cats,plus chickens goats and an emu and I am not having any type of allergic reaction to any thing that is airborne.