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Message of April 26, 2020 
By Helmi Tischler-Venter
Pollen explodes, due to current weather conditions with plenty of sun and virtually no rainfall, there are significantly more days flying with pollen. Existing allergens are hardly forced by rain, but they flail over and over again. The burden grows daily and allergy sufferers in Westerwald are suffering severely. Some even wonder if they have a crown. However, Covid-19 infection is associated with fever, cough, and fatigue.
Dierdorf Hay fever (pollinosis) is an allergy to pollen, that is, to plant pollen. It is the most common allergy in this country: almost every fourth or fifth adult suffers from hay fever. In children under the age of six, three to seven percent are affected; in older children it is between 7 and 13 percent. The trend is increasing for all allergies and, like all allergies, hay fever is often inherited. The immune system is hypersensitive to the protein of a certain pollen.
The most common allergy-causing pollen comes from birch, alder, hazelnut, beech, grass, and rye, as well as herbs such as mugwort, ragweed, or steam. There are also many other plants whose pollen can cause allergies. The symptoms appear mainly in spring and summer, that is, in the main flowering period. They bring cold-like symptoms such as itchy, burning and watery eyes, sneezing, scratches on the throat and headache and skin reactions.
It is now known that excessive hygiene can contribute to the development of allergies. If the childhood immune system is not affected by a low level of contact with allergens and pathogens, you can try to fight off harmless substances like pollen later. Children who grow up on farms are less prone to allergies and asthma because they seem to come into contact with allergens like animal hair and grass more frequently, thus developing natural protection.
There are antihistamines, medications to relieve the symptoms of hay fever. In addition, hay fever can be controlled by medical hyposensitization.
You can support your immune system through a conscious lifestyle, because a stressed immune system is even more sensitive to allergens. Getting enough sleep, avoiding stress or relaxation, supplying vitamin D, and avoiding alcohol and nicotine are therefore helpful for allergy sufferers.
You can use a pollen flight forecast to find out the current pollen count, and if you know which pollen is responsible for the allergic reaction, avoid foods with related allergens (for example, honey).
Foods containing histamine can worsen symptoms. These include red wine, tomatoes, spinach, and chocolate. During the acute phase, salami, raw sausages, aged, cured cheese, yeast, vinegar, legumes, walnuts, citrus, black tea, mate, colors, tuna, should also be avoided. mackerel, licorice, hot spices, wheat beer, sparkling wine and champagne. .
Conversely, a balanced diet with plenty of fresh (low histamine) fruits and vegetables and whole grain products supports the body’s defenses. Various foods relieve allergy symptoms, their vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals soothe irritated mucous membranes and protect the immune system.
For hay fever, you should choose broccoli, green leafy vegetables like arugula and endive (no spinach), elderberries, black currants, acerola, sea buckthorn, parsley, thyme, onion, apples, and sunflower seeds.
Since you cannot currently avoid pollen flying for vacations on the coast or in the high mountains, you should direct your outdoor activities to pollen flying, which is generally strongest in the country in the morning. You should only surround yourself with garden or balcony plants that you are not allergic to. To avoid grass pollen, it is advisable to keep the grass short so that it does not flower. For cars there are pollen filters for ventilation and for home pollen filters that are placed in front of windows. Frequent carpet and upholstery vacuuming with a pollen filter and night hair washing also help.
If you can, you should not necessarily run in meadows and fields and avoid long stays outdoors. However, since going for a walk is sensible at this time, it is advisable not to remove your clothes with pollen attached in the bedroom and put them in the laundry as often as possible. Then do not air dry.
Longing for farmers, foresters, gardeners, water workers and firefighters, the rain soothes the troublesome mucous membranes of people with pollen allergies. htv
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