Health
Tips for managing your child's allergies
(Medical Xpress) -- Allergy season can be a difficult time of year for many children and their parents. With spring in the air, pollen is close behind.
Mar 19, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
People forage for memories in the same way birds forage for berries
Humans move between 'patches' in their memory using the same strategy as bees flitting between flowers for pollen or birds searching among bushes for berries.
Feb 14, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Get ready for spring - hay fever worse in spring than summer
Hay fever (runny nose, sneezing, itchy eyes) is caused by an allergy to pollen, and most commonly to grass pollen. These tiny grains bring misery to sufferers through spring and summer and pollen levels are often included ...
Dec 21, 2011
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Health
Children's hay fever relieved by cellulose power without adverse effects
A cellulose powder has been used increasingly for many years against allergic rhinitis. Still, there has been a shortage of scientific evidence for its efficacy in seasonal allergic rhinitis (hay fever), particularly in children. ...
Jun 28, 2011
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Health
Probiotic drinks help against allergies
Probiotic drinks such as Yakult and Vivit can alleviate the symptoms of pollen allergies, says Wageningen UR PhD scholar Yvonne Vissers. They do this by diminishing the amounts of certain proteins that cause hay fever. The ...
Jun 16, 2011
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Health
Highest pollen count of the season, last three years on Friday 13th
Chicago’s tree pollen count reached 1,500 today, triggering a dangerous air quality warning.
May 16, 2011
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Health
The nose knows: Allergy season here with vengeance
(AP) -- There may be a whiff of truth to claims by allergy sufferers who sniffle that this season is, well, a bigger headache than years past.
May 13, 2011
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Health
Chicago's reputation as one of 'worst place to live with spring allergies' just got worse
Budding trees and greening grass may bring a sigh of relief to some Chicagoans, but for 40 million other Americans the signs of spring leave them gasping for breath.
Apr 13, 2011
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