Re: Antihistamines and immune system

[Guest guest]

the immune system

<http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/immune/immune1.htm>

antihistamine suppresses IgE activity against allergies and

parasites. IgE triggers histamine release.

increase consumption of clean,pure room temp. water

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> Does anyone know if taking antihistamines suppress your immune

> system? I don't have time to research right now but spring has

sprung

> here and I try not to take antihistamines since I have this idea

that

> they would, but it would be nice to get some relief right now.

>

> I can see people taking them for symptomatic relief if allergies

are

> main problem but since my immune system isn't up to 'par', I'm

> wondering if I should tough these episodes out. Any suggestions.

I

> can do neti pot when I am home but spend a good part of day away

> from " home " /temporary home anyway.

>

> Thanks

>

[Guest guest]

I do know that one cannot take antihistimines for a period of time

prior to allergy testing. So, it does something to the immune system.

I have used guaifenesin for years to avoid sinus infections without the

side effects of allergy meds.

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> . . . Does anyone know if taking antihistamines suppress your immune

> system? . . .

>

> Thanks

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks very much Jeanine! Just another thing doctors give you

to " feel " better but " get " worse. I guess I'll take something like

Vitamin C instead.

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> the immune system

> <http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/immune/immune1.htm>

> antihistamine suppresses IgE activity against allergies and

> parasites. IgE triggers histamine release.

> increase consumption of clean,pure room temp. water

[Guest guest]

Your Welcome, sure seems that way doesn't it.

> >

> > the immune system

> > <http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/immune/immune1.htm>

> > antihistamine suppresses IgE activity against allergies and

> > parasites. IgE triggers histamine release.

> > increase consumption of clean,pure room temp. water

>

[Guest guest]

How long befre testing should you avois testing for? I thought it was

just for that day.

Do you get your guai by precription?

On 4/1/07, <smarshwar@...> wrote:

> I do know that one cannot take antihistimines for a period of time

> prior to allergy testing. So, it does something to the immune system.

>

> I have used guaifenesin for years to avoid sinus infections without the

> side effects of allergy meds.

>

[Guest guest]

Interestingly, I heard a commercial for an antihistamine yesterday and

noticed they said side effects could include, amoung other things,

sinus and upper respiratory infections..!!!!, so it is true, it

suppresses your immune system, so you had better be sure you are

sneezing due to allergy rather than cold or flu before taking an

antihistamine!!!!

Allergist I went to a few years ago said I had so many allergies I

should take two 24-hour antihistamine daily!! I didn't of course.

Don't do anything without reading up on it myself first.

[Guest guest]

I have really bad allergies, had them most of my life in a very serious

way. My doctors always told me to do the same, take the pills daily,

even if I did not have a symptom. I am beginning to wonder if all of

the crap I have been prescribed to use is what has made me have so many

infections in the past few years. I was taking my allery meds but as of

late, I tend to ride out the allergy as best as I can. Years ago I road

them out and I never had a sinus infection. I read an article not too

long ago, which stated the watery nose, eyes and etc is the body

fighting something..for us allergy suffers, it is at times, constant!

I am thinking the article was on the Mercola site. If the body can't

elimate it, the germ, through the mucus membranes, there can be other

problems. So it is best to not dry up a runny nose. My daughter's

doctor once said when she was having serious asthma attacks, that the

allergy and cold meds would thicken the mucus and make breathing

worse. I have noticed once the muscus is thickened, it tends to lead

to infection. Perhaps it is because it was meant to drain out the

posions our system is fighting??

I must admit, I will take allergy meds if I am totally miserable for a

long period of time. Sometimes getting the relief is all one needs to

get strength to fight the illness. When I had my back teeth cut out,

my dentist said if I am in bad pain to take my pain meds for a few

days. He said studies showed people who had teeth pulled healed faster

when they got relief for pain than those who rode the pain out. So

sometimes taking an antihistamine can help a body help itself. I

beleieve it is best to take as few meds as possible but sometimes we

become so run down by putting up with such bad symptoms, that a bit of

relief helps us to fight the illness.

One thing, very few doctors understand that all of the cold meds and

antihistamines can make a patient worse. The first doctor who told me

about this, was my daughter's doctor. Many considered him as a quack

but more and more of what were " his " theories back then are proving as

truth now! Now others hold him in highest respect! He would never

prescribed an antibotic without first doing cultures! I wish there was

a doctor like him now! He retired.

BTW, I was at our local Big Lots the other day. I found an allergy med

on sale for 1.99. It is called TheraSwab. It appears to be homopathy

(SP?) medication. I used it today and it worked fine and so far, so

side affects!

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> Interestingly, I heard a commercial for an antihistamine yesterday

and

> noticed they said side effects could include, amoung other things,

> sinus and upper respiratory infections..!!!!, so it is true, it

> suppresses your immune system, so you had better be sure you are

> sneezing due to allergy rather than cold or flu before taking an

> antihistamine!!!!

> Allergist I went to a few years ago said I had so many allergies I

> should take two 24-hour antihistamine daily!! I didn't of course.

> Don't do anything without reading up on it myself first.

>

[Guest guest]

One time I was sick with the flu and spent the time in bed reading a

child's book on " what causes colds " . Some children's scientific

books are wonderful, since they tell you the complicated stuff in a

simple way. I don't have the energy to tell what I learned but it

was fastinating and what I learned is the body has a reason for the

symptoms you have and they are to protect you, so not to take

medicine to offset them unless they become unbearable. Getting lots

of rest when you feel sick is the thing to do rather than take cold

medicine so you can " keep going " .

For example don't take aspirin if you have a fever unless fever

becomes so high that it is dangerous since a fever is one of your

body's ways of killing microbes, small temperature changes can kill

some microbes. Also reves (sp>) up your immune system, etc. It

also went into importance of sneezing, runny noses, etc. Drinking

plenty of water to help this process would be better than taking

something to dry it up. Anyway, I do take medicine for cold or

allergies at bedtime so I can get to sleep. I look for the 4 hour

or 8 hour versions though instead of the 24 hours version. Finding

the shorter versions is hard though as the 24 hour versions are

becoming so popular. Last time I had a chills and fever I got into

a hot bath and sweated the fever out and it didn't come back after I

got out.

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> I have really bad allergies, had them most of my life in a very

serious

> way.