My allergies this year are KILLING ME! my nose is so stuffed up I can't sleep well at night, what can I do???

Steam: That will at least help open your nose back up. And you may want to get a mask you can wear while going out, at least for yard work. If nothing else, it will filter the air for you.

Good luck and feel better!

Try buying some of the overcounter Zyrtec! I have been having a lot of problems too, and my doctor used to prescribe me it all the time, and I bought it today and I am starting to feel better!

Ive also had allergy's for 30 years and have taken numerous pills and drugs but the best one I've ever used is Beconase and you do need a prescription and it cost about thirty dollars.Its a nasal spray once in the morning and their are no side affects that I have seen and I have used it for several years.I hope it helps you as well,good luck.

Your friend looks at your bloodshot eyes, hears your stuffed-up voice, and accepts the explanation "It's my allergies," as though the symptoms he observes were the disease itself. This word game is no accident. We are conditioned by a thousand commercials a day to equate diseases with their symptoms. Headache, backache, bronchitis, eczema, arthritis, tinnitus, asthma, high blood pressure, on and on - are usually not diseases themselves, but rather the signs of disease. The illusion is that by temporarily covering up the signs, we have now cured the disease. The illusion is that by naming the signs, we have identified the disease.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

You have a headache. Solution, programmed every five minutes on TV: Tylenol, Advil, whatever, that will do what? That's right: take the pain away. But wait - the pain wasn't the cause of the problem. The headache had a reason; it was a sign of something else. Neck spasm, intoxication, emotional stress, sinus allergies, trauma, spine misalignment, drugs, chemical sensitivity, overwork, dehydration, hunger - the pain can come from many sources. The pill didn't solve anything, didn't cure anything. Soon as it wears off, guess what? Right - the pain returns. So then what are we taught to do? More pills.

Same with allergies. Allergies are not watery eyes and stuffed up noses. Allergies are reactions to irritants. Something foreign is triggering the body's cleansing responses. Like walking behind a smoky bus when it starts up. You breathe in the fumes and start coughing and choking, with your eyes watering. That's an allergic response. Humans are allergic to bus exhaust. Eyes water to clear the eyes. Coughing reflex kicks in to forcibly expel the toxic fumes before they get inhaled. Happens in an instant.

Tolerance is an adaptation to stress. When we get used to an irritant, the body eventually gives up on trying to expel it. Like a bus mechanic. After a few weeks or months of breathing those fumes every day, the body doesn't try so hard. The sensitive mucous membranes in the mouth and nose toughen up a little, and the mechanic learns to "take it." He's becoming less sensitized to a poison - carbon monoxide. Doesn't mean it won't kill him; it just means the body's getting accustomed to that degree of being poisoned. The irritant is no longer triggering such a strong cleansing response as it used to.

Same with someone learning to smoke cigarettes. He coughs and chokes at first, but soon gets the hang of it. The body's ability to throw off the toxins is gradually weakened.

Have ever been in a grocery store and noticed all these little rotundo porkettes running up and down the aisles whining Mommy buy me this, Mommy I want this鈥?pointing to all those fattening refined foods they learned to need by watching ads on TV? And then you see those same items all appear at the checkout counter?

Ever been in a fast food joint and noticed those little tiny paper cups they have to give babies Coke?

American children are getting fatter, sicker, and dumber than ever before in our history. This is not meant to just a provocative statement, but is easily documented in all relevant government and scientific statistics on allergy, obesity and neurodevelopment.

Here's the key idea of this chapter: processed refined foods cannot be digested. When a child is born, his tract and blood are clean and clear. As he starts eating all this unmetabolizable trash, the residual sludge accumulates in the digestive tract and in the blood. Let鈥檚 call this accumulation the Toxic Load.

OK, so let鈥檚 say there is a Threshold, a level of toxicity below which the child does not react to the junky foods 鈥?no asthma, watery eyes, runny nose, skin eruptions, etc. But as time goes by the Toxic Load builds up to the point where one day it crosses over the line, exceeds the threshold, and now the child does react -- any type of allergic reaction may result. At that point the patient has built up such a load of accumulated toxic foods that he has exceeded the body鈥檚 ability to deal with them 鈥?to break them down and process them through. We say he has reached the Threshold of Reactivity - it鈥檚 the end of childhood, in a health sense.

Result: asthma, allergies, skin conditions, coughing, bronchitis, chronic fatigue, failure to develop, etc. So what do most people do at that point? Take the kid to the doctor and consult whatever 15 year old they made a Resident that week, who after a five minute interview declares the child has 鈥渁llergies鈥?which are due to a genetic deficiency of Benadryl, or other drugs. And in one fell swoop the patient is now categorized as having allergies and put on a regiment of drugs that will last for years. Not a word about the box of frosted flakes and the 4 doughnuts the kid has for breakfast or the 4 cokes he has at school throughout the day or the carton of ice cream he needs for his midnight snack---no . None of that is taken into the equation. No, this is all genetic. It's not his fault.

Do you know anyone on allergy medication? Do they still have allergies??