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Allergic to Your Pet? Follow These 3 Tips to Keep Your Beloved Cat or Dog.

February 04, 2016
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Allergic to Fido? Good news – you don’t have to give him up! Living with a pet or interacting with animals can create misery for individuals with allergies and asthma. Pets and animals like cats, dogs, ferrets, and even horses, cows, goats can fill our families’...
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A Guide to 7 Common Winter Allergens & Conditions

January 25, 2016
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Winter and spring allergies can be a big nuisance. Add in an infection only complicates matters. Allergies target the nose and sinuses – a huge nuisance because we need to breathe, talk, and eat with our mouth and throat. A sore throat that lasts a long time is miserable....
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Immunologist Speaks Out on Vaccines After KC Royals Chickenpox Infection

September 12, 2015
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The Royals Take on their Toughest Opponent: Chickenpox Two Kansas City Royal players, Alex Rios and Kelvin Herrera, were taken out of the lineup because of a preventable childhood illness; Chickenpox, also known as Varicella. Chickenpox is contagious for 10 to 21 days after...
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Ragweed is Blooming All Over in Kansas City

August 29, 2014
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Kansas City is in the midst of a record-breaking allergy season. We noticed weed pollen in the air early this year. By the end of the first week of August, pollen was detected, setting up allergy sufferers for the wrath of ragweed. Ragweed pollen, as well as all plant pollen,...
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How to Live Normally With Food Allergies

August 11, 2014
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An allergy is based on the release of histamine. When you get a bug bite the bug injects something like histamine into your skin, you feel itchy. We have white blood cells all throughout our bodies, including our mouths, skin, eyes, noses, etc., and these white blood cells make...
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I Ate Too Much! Heartburn? Reflux? Indigestion? Which Is It?!

July 28, 2014
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Picnics, barbecues, hot dogs at the baseball games… I ate too much! … And now I have heartburn. Commonly we think that reflux means heartburn – that you burp up food or you feel burning in your throat after eating. But the reality is that reflux has multiple...
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Celiac Disease vs. Gluten Allergy vs. Gluten Sensitivity

July 14, 2014
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A gluten allergy is called celiac disease. The name implies that a person will have an inflammatory reaction to any gluten-containing product, such as wheat, rye, oat, and barley. It actually is not an allergy, since there’s no histamine release, but rather a severe...
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