{"id":338,"date":"2021-03-20T00:57:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T00:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2021-08-29T02:50:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T02:50:59","slug":"spring-allergies-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/03\/20\/spring-allergies-are-here\/","title":{"rendered":"SPRING ALLERGIES ARE HERE!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Susan D. Denny, MD, MPH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are like me, your Spring sneezing and sniffles have begun.&nbsp; In our area, tree pollen begins in March with grass pollen beginning in April.&nbsp; A look at the Allergy Season chart for the Southeast reveals that we allergy sufferers can have symptoms anywhere from February through October in North Carolina.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Spring sniffles you may be breaking out your Claritin, Zyrtec, Flonase or Pataday, or maybe all of these!&nbsp; For some of us, it is hard to imagine enjoying a beautiful Spring day free of sinus congestion, headaches or itchy eyes without the use of some allergy medication.&nbsp; Fortunately, there is hope for allergy sufferers.&nbsp; Here are a few simple tips to help you reduce allergy symptoms and allergy medications while still enjoying the beautiful Spring weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Perform nasal rinses with warm saline water and a neti pot before bed.<ul><li>DON\u2019T open those windows and doors to let in \u201cfresh\u201d air.&nbsp; This will increase the pollen counts in your indoor air.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>DO use a high-quality indoor air filter such as IQAir or Austin Air Health Mate Plus to reduce indoor allergens.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Shower before bed, including hair rinsing or washing, to reduce nighttime exposure to allergens trapped on skin and hair.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>While these steps may help to reduce allergy symptoms, elimination of allergies requires testing and treatment.&nbsp; After trying and failing allergy shots myself, I am now treating the root cause of my allergies with allergy drops. &nbsp;Allergy drops are clinically proven to be as effective in reducing and even eliminating allergies as allergy shots.&nbsp; However, allergy drops do not require weekly visits to the office and are less expensive than weekly allergy shot copays.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested in treating the root cause of your allergies and eliminating allergy symptoms for good, consider allergy testing and allergy drop treatment at Carolina Total Wellness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/allergy-drops.php\">https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/allergy-drops.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/0001-1-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/0001-1-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/0001-1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/0001-1-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/0001-1-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/0001-1-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/0001-1-scaled.jpg 1978w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan D. Denny, MD, MPH If you are like me, your Spring sneezing and sniffles have begun.&nbsp; In our area, tree pollen begins in March with grass pollen beginning in April.&nbsp; A look at the Allergy Season chart for the Southeast reveals that we allergy sufferers can have symptoms anywhere from February through October in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/03\/20\/spring-allergies-are-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SPRING ALLERGIES ARE HERE!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[26,36,49,48,47],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allergy-clinic","tag-allergies","tag-allergy-drops","tag-north-carolina","tag-slit","tag-spring-allergies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinatotalwellness.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}