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Saturday, July 02, 2011

Natural Solutions For Asthma and Allergies

By Jerry Marchbank

Approximately 20 million people in the United States suffer from asthma and 50 million suffer from allergies. Given that some people suffer from both, that leaves approximately 60 million Americans living with one or both of these afflictions.

The costs involved in treating these illnesses due to medicine, emergencies, hospital care and even loss of productivity in the workforce, are enormous. The healthcare and business losses come to approximately $18 billion per year in the United States.

Asthma and allergies are the main cause of absence in American schools. Children affected by these illnesses lose a combined annual total of 14 million school days.

Treatment for either illness involves an assortment of medicines. Asthmas sufferers generally use corticosteroid inhalers. These have become so common that it sometimes seems that everyone has one tucked away in a pocket, bag or drawer. Allergy sufferers take antihistamines, use corticosteroid sprays or, in the worst cases, immunotherapy desensitization injections, which must be taken on a regular basis for years.

What's the worst part of all this medication and treatment? It's a never-ending cycle. Treatment doesn't result in a cure, just a temporary fix that needs to be taken over and again. Medicines and injection treatments target symptoms. They can be successful in relieving these symptoms but they don't eliminate them. What about the heart of the cause? Isn't there something that can be done to fix the underlying problems that create the illnesses?

Chiropractic care is a distinctive way to provide relief from many illnesses, including asthma and allergies. Both conditions can react positively to chiropractic adjustments, which aim to regulate and stabilize the body's communications within itself. It takes away obstacles preventing the body from restoring itself. Once these obstacles have been removed, the body can work on rebuilding the hyper-sensitive areas that cause asthma and allergies, allowing it to reduce the affects of these conditions.

Nutrition is another valuable part of chiropractic care. Asthma and allergy sufferers need to keep themselves as healthy as possible, in order to enable their bodies in preventing the onset of asthma and allergy attacks. Your chiropractor can help you design a healthy, balanced diet, designed specifically to help you increase your body's immune system and metabolism, decrease discomfort caused by nutritional deficiencies and increase energy for physical exercise and day-to-day tasks.

There are many advantages to using chiropractic care in the treatment of asthmas and allergies. If you suffer from either or both of these illnesses, make an appointment with your chiropractor and get some natural, healthy relief.

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