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Allergies are probably the worst enemy of your skin. These are caused when your skin or body comes in contact with material, substance or food stuff that does not suit your body. The adverse reaction to such material is so strong that it causes breathlessness, swelling in the body, hives and discoloration of skin with severe itching that refuses to subside. Not only do they cause considerable physical discomfort but also mental agony.

In most of the cases the cause behind allergy goes undiagnosed and doctors prescribe anti-allergic medicines for the allergy to settle. Seafood, peanuts, pollen and dust are the most common reasons behind most of the allergies. In this write up we will explore various natural treatments that can alleviate the allergic reaction.

Natural Treatments For Allergy On Skin

Oatmeal

Oatmeal is a very old and effective remedy for thwarting the effects of allergy especially skin hives and swelling. Grind a bowl of oatmeal and add it to a bucket of water. Rest the affected area in this water for at least 15 minutes. You may also prepare a paste using ground oatmeal with Aloe Vera gel or cold milk whichever is available.

The Aloe Vera or cold milk will alleviate the burning and hot sensation on the skin and oatmeal will kill the allergic reaction. Apply this paste directly on the affected area and let it rest for 10 minutes and you will find relief almost instantly.

Housekeeping

Certain changes and routine cleaning is a must where you suffer from frequent bouts of allergies. Special attention needs to be paid in cleaning the rugs, soft toys, cushions and any other house or decorative item that has fur, cotton or cloth in it. It is usually recommended that rugs be replaced with laminates.

Avoid air conditioned rooms and if you must reside in air conditioning then ensure that it gets adequate sun exposure and fresh air for at least two hours in a day.This clears the stuffy environs of the room and sunlight kills the mold and fungal growth. Regular cleaning of Air conditioner filters is also necessary.

Change the bed sheets and quilts ones in a week and remove flowering plants as pollen is a leading cause of allergy. If you have pets then make sure that their hair do not brush over the house and give them a bath regularly. Try these simple changes and you may find improvement in the allergic reaction as any of these may be the cause of allergy.

Diet And Fasting

Diet plays a critical role in causing and providing relief from allergies. As mentioned earlier the procedure for determining the cause of allergy is extremely complex and tedious, therefore you can follow a diet elimination process to self determine the cause of your allergy. If you have a food allergy, then this process will definitely help you.

Start with eliminating certain class of food items from your meals especially the ones you might have started for the first time, for e.g. not eating seafood or dairy products. Watch your body’s reaction to these eliminations for determining the cause of allergy. Apart from diet elimination process, you may also resort to fasting which would include plenty of fluids and fresh juices to flush the toxins out of your body. Fasting would especially benefit people who have accidentally introduced irritants into the blood stream. Ones the toxins have been flushed out of the body, the allergy will go away on its own.

Acupuncture

Ancient Chinese therapy of acupuncture which involves pricking micro needles into various points of our body to clear the energy blockages is also an upcoming natural way of treating allergies. Acupuncture works based on a theory of energy flow inside the body, whose obstruction and disharmony of body balance leads to physical and mental maladies.

It is a painless procedure as the needles pricked are very thin. Depending on each person’s condition and extent of allergy the acupuncturist would recommend the region for inserting the needles, length and number of sessions required. Acupuncture is a comprehensive treatment plan which may also include use of Chinese herbs in tandem with the actual acupuncture sessions.

Nasal Wash

Most of the skin allergies may be caused due to inhalation of certain irritants which can very easily get lodged in the nasal cavity. For this a natural and simple procedure of nasal wash is recommended which can be easily done at home. Boil some water with a spoon of salt mixed in it and let it cool to the room temperature.

Take a vessel which has a protruding long pipe and fill it up with the water. Bend sideways to your left or right side and pour the water in your nostril which is upwards and let the water drain out of the downward nostril. Repeat this process by bending side wards on the other side.

Tea time

It is important to attack the root cause of skin allergy along with application of cooling ointments on the skin. Our body has a very effective system of detoxification through excretion. And different types of teas can help you in achieving this detoxification which will eventually throw the allergy causing substance out of the body.

Mint tea, chamomile tea and green tea are considered best and most effective for this procedure. All the three of them are best of the anti-oxidants and other than detoxification, they also have numerous other health benefits without having any significant side effects.

Breath Easy

Skin allergies are mostly a consequence of irritants and toxins that you might have inhaled. But our body tends to obstruct these irritants in the nose or mucous in the upper respiratory tract itself. This may cause difficulty in breathing along with swelling or occurrence of hives on the skin.

To remove the irritant in this cases, best option is Steam. To discharge the irritant and for restoring the natural breathing add 1-2 drops of eucalyptus or menthol oil. Both of these oils have a tendency of expanding the respiratory tract. The steam aids the movement of mucous and eases it out of the nose. This mucous becomes transport medium for the toxins and irritants.

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