--- The Fool wrote: > > From: Ronn Blankenship > > At 02:58 AM 10/27/02, The Fool wrote: > > > > >Most hot and spicy sauces will > > >help clear the sinus', but it's better to keep > them clear in the first place. > > > > Agreed. > > > > What should one do to insure that when one has > severe allergies that make > > them block up at the slightest provocation (or > sometimes no apparent > > provocation), so one never really has clear > sinuses to keep clear? And > > only relatively strong medicine provides some > relief, which generally wears > > off before it is time to take the next dose, > though if you're lucky it > > allows for a long enough span of relatively free > breathing so you can get > > to sleep, and if you're not, you lie there > miserable all night and feel > > even worse the next day . . . > > 8 grams or so of vitamin c/day can do wonders.
For more than just a couple of days, this is an excessive dose. While Vitamin C is water-soluble, at this dosage it would be very easy to overload the kidneys if one was not _extremely_ well hydrated. Joint pain can be another side-effect of chronic Vit C megadosing. I personally find that daily intake of salsa/some form of chili-type peppers tends to cut down on my allergic problems, but I have no research to back that up. For really severe allergies, I resort to nasal steroid spray (eg. Flonase, Nasacort etc.) because cromolyn sodium nasal spray (eg. Nasalcrom) doesn't work well for me (although I know others who like it very much). And of course non-sedative antihistamines (eg. Allegra, Claritin), but I try to keep systemic drugs to a minimum. I hate to mention it, but, as a cat-lover who is in fact allergic to cats (though much less as the years pass! :D), you may just have to put up with it; you could consider allergy testing and subsequent immunotherapy, but that is a long time commitment. Anecdotally, I have a good friend who claims that her daughter's allergies were "cured" by acupuncture. <shrug> Who knows? Debbi __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
