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Allergies in Alice Springs, Central Australia

May 24, 2011 By

INTRODUCTION Alice Springs has a permanent population of about 27,000, and is situated in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is almost at the geographical centre of the continent. The town is an important centre for the tourism, pastoral, mining and defence industries. There are 500,000 tourists annually. CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES The aborigines have lived [...]

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Allergy vaccines – previously only by injection, now an oral vaccine is available!!

May 24, 2011 By

Allergy vaccines (also called allergen immunotherapy) WORK REALLY WELL – but you’ve got to have five things just right – the right disease the right allergy the right vaccine the right reason the right precautions Let’s talk about about these five things. The right disease means hay fever or nose/sinus conditions or asthma caused by [...]

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Filed Under: Allergen Immunotherapy: Injections (SCIT) and Oral (SLIT), Allergy & Asthma Info, Asthma, Hay Fever and Rhinitis

Allergy Tests for Food Allergy – the good, the bad, and the ugly

May 24, 2011 By

If I told you that I could touch your nose with the little finger of my left hand and as a result diagnose all your food allergies, would you believe me? I didn’t think so. How would you prove that I was wrong? Well, you would ask me what I thought your allergies were, then [...]

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Asthma after exercise

May 24, 2011 By

The symptoms of asthma are cough, chest tightness, wheeze, and shortness of breath. We are all different, and our symptoms are different even if we have the same disease! So some people mainly get cough when they get asthma, and others wheezing, and so on. What is pretty common in everyone with asthma is the [...]

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Dust Mite

May 24, 2011 By

The dust mite is a tiny bug. It is a member or the spider and tick family. There are numerous types of mite, but the domestic dust mite which has been linked to allergy likes to live in beds and carpets. It won’t bite you, but it excretes very fine droppings which are HIGHLY ALLERGIC to [...]

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Filed Under: Allergens and Allergy triggers, Allergy & Asthma Info, Asthma, Hay Fever and Rhinitis

Eczema

May 24, 2011 By

Eczema is an itchy, weeping, scaly skin condition which mainly affects babies and children, but can persist into adult life. In babies it tends to occur on the face, trunk and nappy (diaper) area, and in this age group there is a strong association with food allergy. Many babies settle down when they are switched [...]

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Foods that trigger asthma

May 24, 2011 By

If you do surveys, somewhere between 25% and 50% of people with asthma believe that some foods can trigger their asthma. But if you test BLINDFOLDED adults with disguised food, so that even the people running the test don’t know what’s in the food until the end of the test (so-called double-blind testing), then only [...]

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Filed Under: Allergens and Allergy triggers, Allergy & Asthma Info, Asthma, Food Allergy and Intolerance

Hay Fever

May 24, 2011 By

If you think about it, hay fever is a strange term…it’s not usually due to hay (although it can be), and there is no fever or elevation of body temperature. The origin of the name is historical. Early in the 19th Century, it was noted that some people living in the British countryside developed sneezing, [...]

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Filed Under: Allergen Immunotherapy: Injections (SCIT) and Oral (SLIT), Allergens and Allergy triggers, Allergy & Asthma Info, Hay Fever and Rhinitis
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