Finally I’m doing well after almost a month of  being sick. The worst was my cough. As in so bad that I lost hope of finding the best cure. I was experiencing asthma symptoms. Whizzing and little bit hard breathing. I was opted to use inhaler that my husband used to use when he’s having asthma attacked. I felt strange because my attacked usually in the dawn. I started to feel back and chest pain every time I was coughing. Phlegm was all plainly clear. No traces of bacteria. I was hysterically worried because it made my days miserable. I can’t go out in public and socialize with friends. I mostly stayed inside the house which was so boring.
I’m fortunate to have a friend who was become an angel sent from above to tell me that a certain medicine for me was right there. With just one day of taking the herbal medicine I felt immediately okay. The next day I still took the medicine for precautionary purpose and that was it! Everything’s good until now. Thank you Lord for sending the angel. And thanks to the health shop where I bought the medicine with deep healing power. It was a syrup that has Manuka honey and propolis mixed with echinacea purpurea extract. The medicine’s exact name is Proplis Herbal Elixir from Comvita and made in New Zealand. It was actually a dietary supplement. Whatever it was, I got healed.

I never had hay-fever before but how come after such longs years now it’s bugging me? Is the mixture of Australia grass can cause hayfever? I never imagine myself will use nasal spray for very itchy nose and eye drops for red eyes. It even gives me bad headache. Oh dear I was once had very bad skin allergy that almost ruined my skin. Thanks goodness I was able to get rid of it with the help of Periactin. It was good medicine but very sedated. It was making me sleep whole day. Until now I have some tiny scars because of those skin allergies. Luckily it wasn’t really bad. I was so depressed what will happened to my skin. I’m hoping and praying it won’t happen to me again.

Recent research has highlighted the link between eczema and asthma. Children with eczema have twice the risk of having asthma later in life.

In the largest study of its kind, researchers tracked 8500 Tasmanians from Childhood to get the first concise picture of how allergic conditions develop. The findings, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, support the theory that eczema is often the first step in an allergic chain that leads to other related conditions such as hay fever and asthma. People who had childhood eczema were more likely to develop childhood asthma or new-onset asthma later in life, or to have asthma that persisted from childhood into middle age.

One in six children have asthma, that can not only affect their health but also their learning, as it is the leading cause of school absenteeism.

It’s no picnic if you suffer from seasonal allergies. Runny nose, itchy eyes, scratchy throat, and constant sneezing are the basic complaints. But the nasal congestion that results can also keep you awake at night. Allergies can also trigger more serious complications, such as chronic sinusitis and asthma. Yet most allergy sufferers don’t seek help beyond a box of tissues. A lot of people think it’s normal to sniffle and sneeze all day.
Even those who do to to the doctor for their allergies may give up before they find a solution.
A consumer research survey found out that more than 60 percent of patients failed to take allergy medicine as prescribed by their doctors, largely because their symptoms didn’t clear up or they cleared up only temporarily. Indeed, only about 20 percent of patients believe that they can become free of symptoms.
Now, all that is changing because of breakthroughs in both prescription and over-the-counter treatments.
Allergies are the immune system’s hyped-up reaction to normal harmless foreign substances, or allergies. When these touch the lining of the nose, the mucous membranes become inflamed, setting off symptoms. Seasonal allergic rhinitis (hay fever) follows nature’s calendar. Bit some people have chronic allergic rhinitis; their symptoms occur year-round in response to animal dander, cockroaches, molds, and dust mites.
These allergic account for a lot of misery. Millions of people have seasonal rhinitis.
And many type of allergies are on the rise. In the United States, a 2005 survey by the National Institute of Health found that 54 per cent of the population tested positive to one or more substance (the most common being dust mites, grass, ragweed, and cockroaches), making them more vulnerable to developing full-blown allergies down the road.
Thirty years ago, however, only half that number tested positive.
Why are the numbers going up? Some researchers blame increased in pollution. Others think we’ve become too clean.
According to the so-called hygiene hypothesis, children raised in hyperclean environments develop hair-trigger immune systems that are skewed toward allergies. Interestingly, babies who live in homes with two or more dogs or cats in their first year are less likely to develop allergies. So are those who have lots of older siblings or who attend day care. Presumably, exposure to a variety of foreign substances and microbes “teaches” the immune system hoe to react appropriately. The theory is intriguing right? But the truth, scientists aren’t sure what’s driving the rise.
If you develop symptoms and don’t know what’s triggering them, a doctor can help figure it out, often with skin tests or with blood tests. Many types of doctors treat allergies, but allergists are the most experienced at diagnosis and also the most up-to-date on treatments.