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How Your Pollen Allergy Can Lead to a Sinus Infection
By Kory | June 6, 2008
If you’ve got seasonal allergies, you’ve certainly noticed all the particles in the air lately—puffs of cottony material from blooming trees, flecks of flower pollen and the like—but more specifically, you’ve noticed because you’re sneezing like crazy or suffering from the chronic nose drips.
You may be used to the annoyance of your pollen allergy, but did you know that these allergies, left untreated, can lead to worse health issues, such as sinus infections and asthma?
When your system reacts to an inhaled allergen like pollen, your mucous membranes become inflamed as your body releases histamine, and can stay inflamed for hours or days as your allergy symptoms persist. While this reaction is happening, your mucous membranes are not in a state of full integrity and health.
Then come bateria, which we encounter everyday. But when your mucous membrane is compromised, bacteria can more easily infiltrate your system, creating a sinus infection. This is just one of many ways that untreated allergies can result in more serious health problems.
Getting your seasonal allergies treated with a technique like NAET can not only rid you of the spring sniffles, it may help you avoid nasty sinus infections throughout the whole flowering season.
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