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Good news may be on the horizon for people who suffer from nasal allergies.
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Although it can sometimes be challenging, there are ways to distinguish respiratory symptoms caused by a virus and those caused by an allergy.
Pollen counts focus on the amount of grains in the air, but it could be the species that are more important.
Unlocking the genetic code of certain grasses could help allergy sufferers.
Changes in temperature and season do affect our health – and not just when the weather turns cold.
There have long been two schools of thought on what causes allergies. New stats are much more helpful to one than the other.
From Wimbledon champions to Olympic swimmers, asthmatics have reached the top and breathing technique is all important.
Every Spring, the blanket of Australian alpine snow starts to melt, and the Mountain Pygmy Possum wakes up from its seven-month-long hibernation. Naturally after so long under the snow, its first thought…
Ah, spring, the sun shines again, the birds sing and - ach-hoo! Airborne grass pollens trigger bouts of hay fever and episodes of asthma in people with pollen allergies. But there is a way we could mitigate…
When I was a child and was first diagnosed with hay fever, the doctor told me I would grow out of it. I didn’t ask for a rough date when that might be – I just went away and each year I suffered I hoped…
Spring and summer are accompanied for many with the much less welcome start of another bout of “hayfever”. A term originating in England, “hayfever” arose out of the popular belief that the ailment was…
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