Due to a high level of pollen and poor air quality, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America has consistently ranked St. Louis as one of the most challenging places to live if you have allergies. For those people with…

In the early 1980s, John Bart, a Toronto doctor, began noticing that patients were having similar complaints on the same days. Hmmmmm, he wondered, could weather be the common factor?  

As luck would have it, one of his patients was a…

Detox. Nowadays, that means flushing poisons and contaminants from your body. But …

I first heard of detoxing when reporting about alcohol and drug rehabilitation clinics. They’d let a patient’s body burn off the drugs, then the withdrawal, then therapy.

Then, the…

Ragweed season starts next week (Aug. 15, officially). It’s drawing more attention this year because the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology says global warming is lengthening the ragweed growing season. So it starts earlier and ends later.
This year’s real double…

Yesterday, I had an allergy attack and sneezed about 200 times. That might be an exaggeration, but not by much. I took an Allegra-D. It didn’t work. I took a Claritin. It didn’t work. Finally, 12 hours later, I stopped…