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Dr. David Fleischer of National Jewish Health offers the following tips for dealing with food allergies over the holiday season.
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Most children with food allergies suffer mild but uncomfortable symptoms, such as loose stools, excess gas, diarrhea, constipation, nausea or vomiting. In some cases, blood or mucus will appear in the stools (particularly in the event of a milk allergy). It’s not uncommon for kid food allergies to cause hives, ear infections, stuffy/runny noses, watery/red eyes, wheezing, asthma flare-ups, eczema, localized rashes or mild tingling/itching in the mouth. In severe cases, anaphylaxis may occur within minutes or hours. The child may find it difficult to swallow, breathe or speak. Usually, they will begin to panic as they begin to feel their throats swell, and they will turn red, feel weak and may slip into unconsciousness. In this article, you will learn about some of the ways that parents of these afflicted kids are coping.
The main aspect of raising a child who has a food allergy would be to keep them safe. At home, you are going to have to make modifications in lots of of your recipes to make sure that your youngster does not be exposed to their allergens. It’s natural to feel frustrated and constrained at first, but after a little bit of digging, you’ll find alternates for pretty much all of your favorite recipes.
You can find a number of cookbooks, for example The Allergy Self-Help Cookbook, which offers in excess of 325 recipes containing none of the typical allergens, like wheat, milk, eggs, yeast, corn and sugar. Then there are cookbooks that are more specific to certain allergies, like milk, eggs and gluten.
As a parent of children with food allergies, it is also important that you educate the child about what a kid food allergy is, what the dangers are and about treatment for food allergy reactions. For younger kids, it’s helpful to read books on the subject, such as Ask Before I Eat, Allie the Allergic Elephant, Bugabees Friends with Food Allergies, The Peanut Butter Jam and The Terrific Tale of Teddy the Tummy. If your child is a little bit older, then you might enjoy watching the 84-minute documentary film by Kevin J. Lindenmuth, titled, “I’m Not Nuts: Living with Food Allergies.” Often if you attend local support groups, you will find a number of resources to help you when discussing food allergies with your child.
A good place to learn more about helping children with food allergies cope is www.allergicchild.com. This website is focused on helping kids who have food allergies to live the healthiest and most normal lives possible. Parents can sign up for free monthly newsletters with expert columns and may also read e-books; How to Send your Food Allergic Child to School; How to Help Your Child Succeed with Food Allergy and Behavior Manifestations: Giftedness, Autism & Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; How Do I Keep My Food Allergic Child Safe; and Traveling and Eating Out with Food Allergies. Allergy information is important in the early stages of your child’s diagnosis, but it is through support networks that you will learn to endure.
If you’re looking for food allergy help for your child, visit our site on Food Allergies in Children for the information you need.
Most families have done without an air purifier for generations – hundreds or even thousands of years, so what, you may be asking yourself is the rush to get one now? And it is true, there is a bit of a buzz about air purifiers at the moment. But do they work all right and are they worth the money?
The answers to both of these questions are not simple, but everyone would have to acquiesce that the motor revolves when you plug them in, so in that sense they do all work. Whether they are effectual or not depends on what you buy. There are some very useful air purifying units and there is a lot of junk too.
The really ineffective ones are the very cheap models, that are just not powerful enough and do not even contain adequate filters, but leaving those aside, there are very good portable air purifiers and very good central air purifier systems.
So, the first thing you have to determine is whether you want a central or portable air purifying system. If you want to clean the air in your office at work or your caravan or trailer, then a good portable purifier will do the job very well. The reason why a portable purifier is not so good for the home is size. Your house is just too big for one portable air purifying unit.
If you locked yourself up in one room, then OK, but as soon as you open the door, or someone walks into the room, you have lost a lot of your clean air. Therefore, if you are thinking about purifying the air in your house, you really have to go for a central system, particularly if you already have ducting in place for a central heating or central air conditioning system.
If you are lucky enough to have such a system then a powerful and very efficient air purification system can be fitted near your existing blower in minutes in most cases. These devices will purify the air in your whole home at the same time, which means that you can walk about your house, go about your daily business and leave interconnecting doors open at leisure. It is the only way to go if you have active children. This is often the cheapest option too, believe it or not.
If you are going to buy a portable model, note the measurements of the largest room you are likely to use it in and work out the volume of air in that room (length x width x height). You will have to check that whichever air purifier you get can handle that volume of air. That information will be in sales pamphlet. The cost of filters is an important aspect in the total cost of a purifier. How much are they and how often do they have to be replaced? Can they be cleaned a few times before needing to be changed?
Think about why you want an air purifier. Is it because you want to combat a specific allergy? Is it because there is a smoker in the house? Is it because of pets? Or is it just because of increasing levels of general pollution from cars and industry? Whatever the reason, make sure that the air purification system you are thinking about purchasing can take filters that can take those substances from the air. Not all filters are identical – not all filters can filter everything.
Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on many subjects, but is currently involved with central air conditioner prices. If you are interested in Home Air Conditioning Systems, please click through to our site.
If you have any form of air purification system installed in your house or office, you will need to replace the air filters at some time or another. I am not only talking about dedicated equipment that only purifies the air here, but also air conditioning units such as you would find at home, in the office or even in the car. The theory is the same for all.
So, you may be operating an air purifier without even realizing it, but in that case, especially if it is an older one, it could be doing you more harm than good. This is because a dirty filter will be blowing unpurified air into the room at best, but in the worst case scenario, it might even be blowing contaminated air at you. Modern air filters do not only stop flies or even pollen from getting into the set-up through the air intake, they go as far as trying to block common germs too.
So, you have two options. If you have never changed or cleaned your air filter or if you did not even realize you had one and the air conditioner or air purifying unit is over a year old, you should do something about it right away. Start by reading the handbook. If you do not have one go on line and look to see if there is any information on your model at the maker’s website or even just anywhere on the Internet. If on the other hand, you have been cleaning and replacing your filter methodically, think about getting a better quality filter next time.
You can go about finding the best brands of air filters for your particular type of unit by writing down any serial numbers and identification numbers and names. The brand and model are very helpful too. You have two options here too. If you like going around the shops, take this information with you and ask about the best filters in several outlets A large DIY or department store could doubtless help here. Write every name and detail they give you down on paper and take it home. I prefer to go on the Internet first and take that information around the shops.
Check everything they have told you on the Internet. Check it with the manufacturer’s web site and compare prices. Decide what you want to buy and where from. Get a year’s supply in one go, it saves a lot of bother. Three or four units should last a year, if they are cleanable.
A high quality air filter will work better than a cheaper one. It will trap more pollutants, including smoke and fumes – even some germs, if it has been impregnated with a germicide. Many come with a long-lasting mild air freshener too, which will save you buying sprays.
Better quality air filters will save you money and hassle by lasting longer in good serviceable condition. Cheaper ones may say they last as long, but the germicide and the air freshener may have evaporated within a week or two. Try to get a filter that is cleanable. The best ones can be cleaned two of three times before they have to be changed. If it is three times then it will last four months, meaning that you only need three a year at most.
If you have purchased an unknown make of air conditioner or purifier, there is a good chance that it was still made by one of the big names or it a copy of a famous name, in which case a better filter may still fit into it. In this situation, take your old filter to the shop with you to get it compared.
Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on many subjects, but is currently involved with central air conditioning systems. If you are interested in Home Air Conditioning Systems, please click through to our site.
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This is a song I wrote and recorded back in the spring of 1984. I played the instruments myself, using a four-track recorder and an antique rhythm machine. The sneezing was spontaneously recorded on a separate track whenever my nose started to itch.
As for the importance of this song in regard to hay fever as a major topic in pop songs such as “Keep on Running” by the Spencer Davis Group, Dylan’s “Blowing in the Wind”, etc, go to my youtube video “Keep on Running: Hay Fever in Pop Songs”:
NOTE: In contrast to what some self-appointed sociolinguists want us to believe, “Thar she blows!” is not a whaling expression. Actually, it was coined by Bjoern Weizenkeim, a retired German rock musician and hay fever victim from Brochterbeck, during a severe sneezing fit. His English was somewhat limited, which is why he used the word “she” – in German a nose is actually a female noun (“die” Nase).
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Copyright 2008 by Bernd Wahlbrinck
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What is it like to be a kid dealing with food allergies? Find out from these children, who spend every day avoiding peanuts, milk, eggs, and other foods all of us take for granted. Luckily, through existing science a cure is possible: Visit the Food Allergy Initiative at www.faiusa.org for more information.
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