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Allergy Facts:
1) Anaphylaxis is the most severe allergic reaction sometimes producing
life threatening symptoms like swelling of the throat and closing the
lower airways.
2) Dust mites live in your bed, on your pillow, in the carpet and your
favorite chair.
3) Dust mites do not bite, they make you cough and sneeze, they make you
eyes itch and your nose run.
4) Dark colored cats are four times more likely than light colored ones
to cause intense allergic reactions.
5) Ease the pain of a bee sting by using ½ tsp. meat tenderizer
( like Adolph's containing Papain) with enough water or vinegar to make
a paste and apply to sting until pain is gone.
6) If a bee sting causes feelings of faintness, panic shortness of breath,
or a rash develops, go to an emergency room immediately. You may be experiencing
a serious allergic reaction called anaphylaxsis.
7) Some people with ragweed allergies may have a "cross- reaction"
to melons such as watermelon, cantaloupe, or honeydew.
8) Some people with tree pollen allergies might have a "cross- reaction"
to fruits like cherries, apples, pears and peaches.
9) If your child misses school due to allergies, he or she has company…
9,999 others are also absent on a typical day for the same reason.
10) If you have a moustache and you have allergies , you could have a
problem. It holds pollen right under your nose ready for you to breathe
it in. So, add that hair to your shampooing sessions.
11) Love flowers but hate the sneezes? Look for low-pollen plants such
as hibiscus, periwinkles, azaleas and roses. Symptoms often attributed
to roses are usually due to grass pollen.
12) If you are planning to have your house fumigated, be sure pyrethrum
is not used.
13) Fight allergy-causing mold by painting indoor walls that are likely
to be damp with mold-inhibiting paint, or by adding mold inhibitor to
standard paint.
14) Did you know that there are allergy-free rooms at some hotels? Ask
about them. Among the hotels are Best Inns & Suites.
15) Put your child's favorite stuffed toy in your freezer during the day
to kill dust mites.
16) Leave a room that was just dusted or vacuumed for at least three hours
to allow airborne dust to resettle.
17) Remember to empty the drip pan under your refrigerator regularly.
The combination of food particles and standing water is irresistible to
mold.
18) Hay fever sufferers should wash their hair at night to remove any
pollen and keep it from settling on pillows and bedding.
19) If you're doing some holiday decorating, watch out for mites and molds.They
love fall leaves, pine cones and and evergreen branches and they are hard
to clean off. Give yourself a break. Choose nuts, pumpkins, and unscented
candles.
20) To help reduce molds and mildew run a night light continuously in
dark closets
21) 20 percent of the population is affected by allergy related disease
22) Between 1 and 2 percent of adults have food allergies
23) Food allergies are caused by eight foods: milk, egg, wheat, peanut,
soy, nuts, fish and shellfish
Lupus Facts:
24) The disease affects women eight to 10 times more frequently than
men and often first appears in women of childbearing years ( ages 18-
45).
25) Lupus more often affects women who are black, American Indian, Asian
or Hispanic than women who are white.
26) Lupus also affects children and older people.
27) Lupus can affect more than one family member, but there are no studies
showing that lupus is an inherited disease.
Arthritis Facts:
28) Dr. Christiaan Barnard, who performed the first-ever human heart
transplant in 1967, was forced into retirement in 1983 by the rheumatoid
arthritis that plagued him since his youth.
29) Famous actress comedian Lucille Ball suffered with rheumatoid arthritis
beginning in her teenage years.
30) Pierre- Auguste Renoir, nineteenth century impressionist artist, was
crippled by rheumatoid arthritis. His hands were so severely affected
that his paintbrush needed to be strapped to his hand so he could continue
to paint.
31) Roman emperor Diocletian exempted citizens with severe arthritis from
paying taxes, no doubt realizing that the disease itself can be taxing
enough.
32) Arthritis is the most widespread crippling disability in the United
States today.
33) More than 41 million Americans have arthritis.
34) One million new patients develop arthritis each year.
35) Forty percent of the population over age 65 have arthritis.
36) 1 in 10 people have osteoarthritis.
37) 1 in 1000 children have juvenile chronic arthritis.
Websites
with med. facts:
www.intelihealth.com,
allergies.about.com/cs/basics/index_2.htm
www.allergydoctors.com/asthma/
www.allaboutblackhealth.com/lupus_in_black_women.htm,
www.allergydoctors.com/allergy/company.htm,
www.allergydoctors.com/education4.html
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