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Ah Choo! My allergies are terrible now. I must be allergic to tree pollen. I know I'm miserable in the late summer when the rag weed is at it's peak. Dust also bothers me. when I graded grain, wheat dust was a killer for me. could hardly breath at times.

I try & take allergy meds but most make me either droozy or hyper.

Anyone else having problems? What are you allergic to?

Red :p
 

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I had chronic polyps in both sides of my nose that went undiagnosed for about 5 years.  I would find myself out of breath (having to breath through my mouth) by the time I got up a flight of stairs.  This started when I was probably 16.  Last May, I finally got them removed.  It is called Septioplasty.  They were causing over 50% blockage, so imagine having a cold/stuffy nose for 5 YEARS!!  Anyhow, it has been almost a year since the surgery, and its spring, but nothing seems to be bothering me.  I am now a life-long user of Nasonex, and I have to get at that kleenex at least once a day or I experience that "out of breath" feeling again. 
 

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Can't really say I have allergies but last week when most of the middle of Kansas was burning, my eyes burned almost all the time. 
 

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Bawndoh said:
I had chronic polyps in both sides of my nose that went undiagnosed for about 5 years.  I would find myself out of breath (having to breath through my mouth) by the time I got up a flight of stairs.  This started when I was probably 16.  Last May, I finally got them removed.  It is called Septioplasty.  They were causing over 50% blockage, so imagine having a cold/stuffy nose for 5 YEARS!!  Anyhow, it has been almost a year since the surgery, and its spring, but nothing seems to be bothering me.  I am now a life-long user of Nasonex, and I have to get at that kleenex at least once a day or I experience that "out of breath" feeling again. 
 

he bawndoh, i need that surgery.  did insurance cover it, and if so, how much was out of pocket.  i've not done it because i heard they just grow back in some number of years.  what did your doc say?
 

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My hubby has allergies so bad that he has to have a  shot every week.  His allergist thinks that he goes to the clinic and has a nurse to give them to him, but he actually just gives himself the shot.  He has "taught" me what to do if he ever has a reaction to the shot, but honestly I think I would freak out and not know what to do!!  Poor guy, thankfully he has never had a problem.  Now it seems that my daughter is starting to have problems with them also, so far a prescription for Allegra does the trick for her.  We have a lot of Oak trees around our house and as pretty as they are I wish we could chop them all down, that would help with their allergies.  Hope you get to feeling better Red!!
 

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knabe said:
Bawndoh said:
I had chronic polyps in both sides of my nose that went undiagnosed for about 5 years.  I would find myself out of breath (having to breath through my mouth) by the time I got up a flight of stairs.  This started when I was probably 16.  Last May, I finally got them removed.  It is called Septioplasty.  They were causing over 50% blockage, so imagine having a cold/stuffy nose for 5 YEARS!!  Anyhow, it has been almost a year since the surgery, and its spring, but nothing seems to be bothering me.  I am now a life-long user of Nasonex, and I have to get at that kleenex at least once a day or I experience that "out of breath" feeling again. 
 

he bawndoh, i need that surgery.  did insurance cover it, and if so, how much was out of pocket.  i've not done it because i heard they just grow back in some number of years.  what did your doc say?

Well Im in Canada, so the surgery was free.  And I got much of the "cost" of travelling, hotel, and meals back from income tax.  I have no idea, however, if insurance would cover it.  Get it done!!! It will be the best relief of your life, especially if they are fairly large.  I used to have a "stuffy" nose all the time and people would tell me to blow my nose constantly.  It doesnt help, cause the "mucus" is actually a growth.  SOOOO frustrating.  They can grow back if you dont maintian them.  Nasones is a steriod, and if you dont take it regularly, they will grow back.  I am now a life-long user....I actually get the Generic version of Nasonex, which is Fluticasone.  It is about 2/3 the price, and has all the same ingredients.  One bottle of Fluticasone costs about $35 up here and it lasts anywhere from 3-4 weeks.  Up here you need to get referal from your family doc to see a specialist (ususally a neck and throat specialist), and the specialist checks you out and lets you know if and when to get surgery.
 

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Bawndoh said:
Well Im in Canada, so the surgery was free. 

thanks bawndoh, though if i could slightly hijack the thread, it wasn't free.  how do you know how much of your taxes goes to health care, what revenue streams does it come from?  do you guys keep track of this, and if the money runs out for the year, do you have to reschedule and strategize what time of year to do it to keep in line to avoid getting bumped to next year?
 

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knabe said:
Bawndoh said:
Well Im in Canada, so the surgery was free. 

thanks bawndoh, though if i could slightly hijack the thread, it wasn't free.  how do you know how much of your taxes goes to health care, what revenue streams does it come from?  do you guys keep track of this, and if the money runs out for the year, do you have to reschedule and strategize what time of year to do it to keep in line to avoid getting bumped to next year?

  :)))I dont know that much about taxes yet.  A little young.  What I can tell you (dont know if you care or not)....46-48% of my gas to get to the hospital was refunded.  Along with most or all of the meals and hotel stay.  Up here, they never tell anyone that they "cant" go for surgery because their insurance has run out.  In general, I would think that quite a bit of our taxes go to health care, as most things are "free".  In some provinces insurance is much more outstanding than others.  If you dont have insurance, a simple ambulance ride could cost you $!200+.  We do pay for chiropractor, massage therapy, dentist, optometry, prescriptions, etc.  If you purchase insurance, you can get MOST of that refunded, depending on the packages.  Most hospital related emergencies/surgeries/stays are free I suppose because they are considered an emergency and Canada trys to treat everyone equally.  They must classify ambulence rides/chiropractor/dentist under "luxuries" because they are meant to be paid for. 
Im kinda babbling, but I think you can pick some info out of all this... (lol)
 

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I have some mild allergies to like pollen and stuff......I'm also allergic to cattle dandruff....not so much fun when we get calves in and clip them for sales.. I've had tear dripping off my face clipping calves..heck, I didn't think I was THAT emotional  (lol).
 

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My middle son is by far my best worker and he has allergies really bad, one of the things he is allergic to is cotton seed hulls and of course that means he can't help feed.
 

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Can someone explain to me why so many people suffer from allergies today?  I do not ever remember anyone I knew while growing up who had a peanut allergy. Today, I doubt if there is a classroom in North America that does not have children who suffer from some kind of allergy. I can only think of a couple of kids I knew who suffered from athsma. Now, you see kids with inhalers all the time. I do not know the stats, but I know there has to be a huge increase in incidence of these problems. Personally I wonder if some of this trend is caused by some of the products we all use today... from air freshers, food additives, and bacterial agents that are all meant to " make us healthier". There used to be an old saying that " everyone should eat a peck of dirt and a pound of horse hair" in order to remain healthy. My interpitation of this saying is that we need to build up natural immunities in our bodies, from our environment, so that our bodies can fight off diseases in a natural manner. Could it be that in our pursuit to keep our children, as well as ourselves, away from germs and microbes, we in affect are harming them by not allowing natural immunities to develop. Some thing is definitely going on.... and I don't like what I am seeing.
 

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That isn't the case with my son, my kids live in the dirt, I also have allergies and so does my mother so I think he comes by it naturally.  I do think that a lot of kids these days live in a guarded environment and that has caused part of it, they are seeing the same thing in antibiotics, kids have been so over medicated that they just don't work anymore.  My doctor has gotten to the point he won't hardly prescribe one any more.
I'm not sure where the peanut allergy thing came from, my kids have had 2 classes with kids that were nut free classrooms, I can't ever remember growing up hearing of anyone with that.
 

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The former chorus teacher from back in high school actually resigned to move to Iowa to a nut-free town or some business like that.  His kid was allergic to peanuts, and they had another on the way...

I'm not sure how I came to be allergic to the cattle dandruff....I never was as a young kid, but it seems like in the past year, if there's a calf with bad skin, my eyes tear up, and my nose gets runny...I'd call that something of an allergy.
 

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Justintime- My theory- I think more kids are growing up on welfare and a lot of the asthma is caused from things related to that "situation"  Parents who smoke while pregnant and with a baby in the car, dirty houses, etc.  I also think allergies are from a weaker immune system which is the result of a lot of things.  People running to the doctor every time they get a sore throat or every time their kid coughs.  According to the Pediatrics Assoc. every time your child is on antibiotics before the are a year old they increase their chances by that # to get asthma (5 times on antibiotics, 5 times more likely to get asthma)  Food additives are another cause, obesity, etc.  I think it is just the way America lives these days.  

Now having said all of that  ;D  I am allergic to Benadryll.  Crazy hu?  Allergic to allergy meds.  When I had the chickenpox (the 2nd time) I was given benadryll for the itch.  I went nutty.  Eyes dialated, jerky movements, and hallucinated and I was only 7 or so.  Haven't gotten close to any allergy meds since.

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i don't think it's welfare. 

People with allergies have an inherited (genetic) predisposition for developing hypersensitivity to inhaled and ingested substances (allergens) that are harmless to other people.

A healthy immune system is balanced between the activity of 2 types of white blood cells, called Th1 and Th2.

    * Genetic or environmental factors can cause a Th2 dominated response to develop which can lead to allergies.
    * The use of immunizations and antibiotic therapies and increased pollution (what kind???) leads to Th2 dominance.
    * Once an imbalance in T cells develops, it tends to be continued by production of chemicals (cytokines) that keep the imbalance in place.

see that second one?  a lot more people have a lot more innoculations and the natural immune system has not had evolutionary time to adjust.  also, people move around a lot more and used to stay put.  now, we've all crossbred ourselves, disrupting our localized "immunities".  man has delayed choke points for quite a while (like the plague, war, etc).

we get all bothered about birthweights in cattle, but i'm worried long term about our accumulation unknown lowered resistance to anything, more than i am about spraying roundup.

cytokines are an extremely targeted area for a lot of drugs.  this could be a problem.
 

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Get ready for the cure that most of you have been waiting for and it came from a chiropractor who also is a natural healing type of doctor.

I have had allergies from the time I was 10 years old, lived on decongestants and antihistamines and STILL had 3 to 4 bad sinus infections a year.  When I was 20 years old I was finally tested for inhalant allergies only, I was allergic to 36 of the 40.  Then I started on the shots, plus nasal steroids, etc. and still had 2 to 3 sinus infections a year but at least I could breathe between the sinus infections. 

Three years ago I started going to a chiropractor for neck pain and when he found out I was a diabetic (on insulin) and had high blood pressure and high cholesterol he suggested that I start taking fish oil.  About a month later I started noticing that I wasn't having to use my nasal spray.  Then in another couple of weeks I started taking my Allegra every other day instead of every day, then not at all.  After 90 days on the fish oil I had gotten to where I also wasn't taking my allergy shots and was breathing normally without anything other than the fish oil. 

I mentioned it to my chiropractor and the way he explained it to me is imagine that the inflammation (allergies, high insulin levels, arthritis, etc) is a fire.  The fish oil works as an extinguisher.  If you research fish oil and its health benefits they are amazing. 

Here is the catch though, you can't take just any fish oil.  It has to be pharmaceutical grade or it doesn't work as well and will put toxins in your body.  The best working one, and the cheapest is from a company called Vitacost, www.vitacost.com.  They have a zillion of them but the one that I use is Mega EFA.  The dosage is 2 capsules a day but for anyone just starting out my doctor told me to go with 4 or even 6 divided up over the day for at least a month and then as you notice your symptoms getting better, back down.  There is not a problem with taking more at all as far as overdosing. 

They also have it in a liquid if you can't swallow big capsules, they are pretty big!  You don't have to worry about a fish taste when you use a pharmaceutical grade, if the stuff you take tastes really fishy then you don't have a good enough grade.

I tell everyone I know about this stuff so if you have questions, ask away.

B.T.W.  My cholesterol and blood sugar dropped in this process and my achy joints no longer ache, even the elbow that a stupid pony reared up and cracked the head of when I was at Purdue 18 years ago at school.  And I have not had a sinus infection in about two years either.
 

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anti oxidants perhaps.  also, i'm thinking more people eat more junk food and NO FRUIT OR VEGETABLES or 100% juice. 

i'd place a small wager on high fructose corn syrup is a minor culprit and perhaps other high density sweetners, aspartane, sacharrin etc.
 

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the one thing i absolutly cant stand but still do anyways is working in a barn loft with square bales in august when its 110 up in there  :'( thats my eyes wAtering, not tears, and my nose gets all runny and choked up and itchy and stuff, same thing when im cuttin grass, but someones gotta do it...  (clapping)
 

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Olson Family Shorthorns said:
The former chorus teacher from back in high school actually resigned to move to Iowa to a nut-free town or some business like that.  His kid was allergic to peanuts, and they had another on the way...

I'm not sure how I came to be allergic to the cattle dandruff....I never was as a young kid, but it seems like in the past year, if there's a calf with bad skin, my eyes tear up, and my nose gets runny...I'd call that something of an allergy.

Me too.  I just started taking zyrtec about 2 months ago.  That stuff makes me hyper and I love it.  I have a ton of energy so I will take one every morning.  I also had headaches every day so I would take sudefed sinus and it never worked, but zyrtec completely eliminated that problem.

While I was on spring break I had to wash a few bulls that were caked with dirt.  When I came in the house my mom thought I was hurt because my eyes were watering so bad and I was all red and broken out in a rash.  So I am definitly allergic to dust and cattle dander.

Jamie
 
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