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Posted by john on August 26th, 2007 — in Clarityn News
August 26, 2007 — The natural and organic online retailer, Natural Home Products has introduced a range of organic pillows free of chemical additives and Antimony. Perfect for allergy sufferers, the pillows are filled with organic Cotton, Millet husks, organic Merino Lambs-wool, Spelt husks and natural Latex for a blissful night’s sleep.
“The new range of organic pillows help to remove one of the biggest barriers to a restorative sleep for allergy sufferers,” said Alan Sharp of Natural Home products. “Our Spelt and Millet pillows mould themselves perfectly to the shape of the sensitive neck area and so help to relieve the strain on it.”
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Enabling anyone who sleeps on their side or back to relax completely, the Spelt pillows also ensure an even temperature for sleeping. Like the organic Cotton barrier covers, all of the fillings used in the Natural Home Products range of allergy-relieving pillows are entirely natural materials. The elasticity of the materials used enables the pillows to adapt to the movements of the user, proving comfort and support entirely free of chemical residues and non-organic fibres.
For those allergic to animal hair, there is also a range of natural fibre pillows with a organic Cotton fleece filling, while Goose down and Duck feather pillows are also available online and have been mixed to provide the perfect blend of softness and support.
“Disrupted sleep patterns due to allergic reactions to pillow fillings and casings is surprisingly common and extremely frustrating for the sufferer,” said Alan Sharp. “More and more allergy sufferers are being diagnosed each year, highlighting the very real need for organic and natural bedding that makes a positive contribution to the household and day to day living. Lost sleep has probably one of the furthest reaching set of side effects to general health and wellbeing, and these can include overall fatigue, irritation and lack of concentration.”
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Posted by john on August 19th, 2007 — in Clarityn News
One of the more common ailments this time of year is allergies. Just as people are adjusting to the plants of early summer, August brings changes in vegetation that cause a new wave of itchy, watery eyes, runny noses and head-rattling sneezes.
Many patients and many medical professionals focus their treatments on relieving the symptoms without tackling their underlying causes. Naturopathic therapies, however, address both and can help reduce the suffering of allergy sufferers in any season.
Nine times out of 10, allergies have their genesis in the intestinal tract. Together, the gut and our airways comprise between 60 and 80 percent of our body’s immune system. That’s why naturopathic therapies for allergies and immune irregularities - begin by bolstering the health of the intestinal tract.
We know that when there is inflammatory or allergic-type reactivity in the intestinal tract most often there also is an immune reaction that can sensitize other mucous membranes and trigger allergic reactions elsewhere in the body. Accordingly, one of the naturopathic therapies for people with allergies is to reduce the consumption of foods which might be triggering allergic reactions.
Allergy sufferers can use a food diary combined with an elimination diet to determine which foods are causing their symptoms. Among the foods that most commonly contribute to allergies are dairy, onions, garlic, soy, gluten containing grains -such as barley, rye, oat, wheat, spelt and kamut, citrus fruits - especially oranges and grapefruit - melons and kiwis. Not every person will be allergic to all these foods; some are sensitive to none.
Start your elimination diet by cutting suspect foods from your diet. Begin to reintroduce them one by one after two to three weeks. Record in your food diary whether your symptoms are relieved as you drop these foods from your diet and which cause a reaction when reintroduced.
In addition to determining which foods you might be sensitive to, there are other easy methods to reduce the symptoms of many allergies. In your home you may find relief in washing your sheets frequently in hot water, replacing your air filters frequently, vacuuming carpets often or removing them entirely and investing in a good air cleaner. You can take similar actions in your office.
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Between eight and nine out of 10 of my patients have seen a 90% reduction in allergic reactions - and some have entirely eliminated the risk of anaphylactic reactions - by making changes to their diets, repairing the mucous membranes in their bowels, and by using an allergic desensitizing therapy.
Homeopathics and botanicals can help reduce the inflammation in mucous membranes and rebuild them. There are literally thousands of such substances that have been shown to help, but probably the most commonly known are probiotics or good bacteria.
There are a large number of products on grocery and pharmacy shelves that promise to help reduce bad bacteria and promote the production of probiotics; generally, however, there are not enough organisms in these products to provide any real benefit. You need between four and eight billion organisms if you are to receive any real benefit from the products.
Microorganisms are terrain dependent. Therefore, if you change your diet and heal your mucous membranes using natural botanicals - such as licorice root, slippery elm and marshmallow root - you won’t need to take probiotics in massive doses over an extended period. Rather, you can use them as a temporary measure… to kick-start the healing process.
In addition, you can desensitize yourself to allergic reactions using homeopathic medicines. A number of controlled studies have proven that homeopathic medicines containing a combination of gelsemium, acidum, fornicum and aluminum are at least as effective as commercial antihistamines at reducing allergy symptoms, especially seasonal allergies, but without the side effects associated with commercial antihistamines, such as drowsiness. Remedies containing this blend of substances can be found in many naturopathic pharmacies and health food stores.
And, as with many other disorders, which often are the body’s reaction to its environment, reducing your stress levels can help to reduce your allergic symptoms. Attending to the nervous system also can help to reduce allergic reactions. The study of how one’s mental state interacts with the nervous and immune systems is known as psychoneuroimmunology. Researchers have observed that as people become more stressed and the nervous system becomes more irritated, histamines are released. There are any number of homeopathic and botanical remedies that can help you to reduce stress and, as a consequence, reduce the severity and period of allergic symptoms.
Finally, working to make our environment air, land and water - cleaner would benefit not only allergy and asthma sufferers but the rest of us, as well.
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Posted by john on August 15th, 2007 — in Clarityn News
August 15, 2007–A Des Moines school is declaring itself a “peanut-free zone”, or at least the principal is asking students not to bring food with peanuts or tree-nuts to school. Peanut allergies seem more prevalent every year, and the Downtown School in Des Moines is the latest school or day-care to go “peanut-free.”
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The allergy can be deadly for some and the thinking is, the school will be safe for the allergic kids if they are assured there are no nut products at all. “If it was your child, would you want us to do all we can? Have some unknowns, have to protect them all we can,” says John Johnson, the principal at the Downtown School.
The school will re-examine its plan after getting a final recommendation from a doctor.
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Posted by john on August 10th, 2007 — in Clarityn News
The Food Allergy Association of Wisconsin (formerly known as the Madison Area Food Allergy Support Group) will sponsor a Food Allergy Awareness Walk on Saturday, Aug. 18, on the grounds of Door Creek Church, 6602 Dominion Drive.
Food allergies are a growing problem affecting more than 11 million Americans, according to the organization, and at least 8 percent of children younger than 3 years of age. The group funds research in addition to presenting local programs aimed at improving the health of children and adults with allergies to foods such as peanuts, tree nuts, milk, soy, eggs, wheat, fish and shellfish.
Registration for the 1.5-mile walk will begin at 9 a.m., with the walk scheduled for 10 a.m. The event is free, but donations will be accepted, all of which will be spent in the state of Wisconsin, according to an e-mail press release from the organization.
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Posted by john on August 6th, 2007 — in Clarityn News
Just ask 18-year-old Allegra Leland of Northvale, who won the Helen Hayes High School Theater Award this summer for her lead performance in the musical “Sweet Charity.”
She couldn’t have won the Helen — the secondary-school equivalent of the Tony — if her family hadn’t been preparing her for the role of the showgirl Charity all her life.
“I was a Broadway baby,” says Leland. “I’ve basically been surrounded by the arts and everything involved in the theater since I was so little, and my parents and friends are all very talented people. I had no chance of not having a deep love and respect for the arts.”
It should be explained that the Lelands are not your typical family when it comes to show business.
Their dining room, for instance, has wall-to-floor mirrors — so that Mom, Dad and daughter Allegra can practice their bucking and winging when they’re not serving the casserole.
Both parents are show people. Marc Leland is a dance teacher, performer, director, choreographer and filmmaker; Carmel Kirtland Leland is a former Radio City Music Hall dancer who teaches jazz dance at the CGI Holistic Fitness Center in Closter.
And Allegra, who is off to New York’s American Musical and Dramatic Academy in the fall — complete with scholarship — is determined to follow in their footsteps.
“I feel I’ve been very well trained to succeed in a life of performing,” she says. “I want to be on Broadway.”
She got a chance to practice the sweetest part of her profession in June, when she beat out six other deserving actresses for the Helen Hayes award, bestowed in front of an audience of more than a thousand at the Paramount Theater in Peekskill, N.Y.
When her name was announced, she says, she just froze.
“I had a moment of: What? Really?” she recalls. “I was sitting next to my mom, and we both kind of stared at each other. And then I skipped up, actually skipped, onto the stage, because I was so excited.”
Helping her hone her award-winning performance as Charity at Academy of the Holy Angels in Demarest (it ran in late March) was a pro even more seasoned than Mom and Dad.
Jack Lee, one of Leland’s vocal coaches, was one of the conductors and musical directors for the original Broadway production of “Sweet Charity” — the 1966 hit that director Bob Fosse tailored for his wife, actress Gwen Verdon, out of the somewhat coarser material of Federico Fellini’s classic 1957 film “The Nights of Cabiria.”
It was nice, Leland says, to learn that the original artists who concocted a tuneful hit (”Hey Big Spender,” “If My Friends Could See Me Now”) out of the story of an innocent dance-hall girl in a not-so-innocent world had some of the same problems she had.
For instance, the song “You Should See Yourself,” with the high notes at the end: Verdon had problems with that one, too, Leland learned.
“[Lee] told me Gwen Verdon didn’t like to do the song, so every night he would change the orchestration, bring in a Spanish guitar, make it fun for Gwen, so that she would be anxious to see what he had done to it,” Leland says.
“It was nice, when I was a little worried about something, to hear that Gwen had also worried.”
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Posted by john on July 29th, 2007 — in Clarityn News
July 23 (Bloomberg) — Merck & Co.’s second-quarter profit rose 12 percent on increased demand for the cervical-cancer vaccine Gardasil and other new drugs. The company raised its forecast, sending the shares up 6.8 percent, the most in three months.
Net income rose to $1.68 billion, or 77 cents a share, from $1.5 billion, or 69 cents, a year earlier, Merck said today in a statement. Excluding restructuring costs, the Whitehouse Station, New Jersey-based company earned 82 cents a share, beating the average 72-cent estimate of 16 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Revenue climbed 5.9 percent to $6.1 billion. Sales of the cholesterol drugs Vytorin and Zetia, shared with Schering-Plough Corp., bolstered profit. New products including Gardasil helped Chief Executive Officer Richard T. Clark revive growth after the loss of patent protection last year for Merck’s former top- selling medicine, the cholesterol pill Zocor.
“Things are real positive for Merck, and the momentum hasn’t decelerated,'’ said Les Funtleyder, an analyst with Miller Tabak & Co. in New York, in a telephone interview. “The new products certainly helped, and restructuring helped on the bottom line. It’s hard to point to exactly the strength, other than strength everywhere.'’
Shares of Merck jumped $3.31, to $52.33, in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. The last time the shares rose more in a day was on April 13, when they increased 8.3 percent after the company reported that first-quarter profit beat estimates.
Increased Forecast
The shares gained 40 percent in the past 12 months, making Merck the third-best performer in the 14-member Standard & Poor’s 500 Pharmaceutical Index, behind Schering-Plough Corp. and Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Based on increased demand for new products including the diabetes medication Januvia, Merck raised its 2007 earnings forecast by more than 7 percent to $2.80 to $2.95 a share, compared with the average $2.87 estimate of 13 analysts in a Bloomberg survey. Last year, Merck earned $4.4 billion, or $2.03 a share.
“New products continue to gain momentum and acceptance in the marketplace,'’ Clark said during a conference call with investors and analysts. “Our future success clearly depends on discovering, developing and marketing novel medicines.'’
Vytorin
Sales of Vytorin gained 38 percent to $686 million, even as prescriptions surged for generic Zocor, also called simvastatin. Prescriptions for simvastatin have increased 90 percent in the past 12 months, according to Verispan LLC, a market-research company in Yardley, Pennsylvania. Sales of Zetia rose 21 percent to $578 million.
Schering-Plough, based in Kenilworth, New Jersey, reported that second-quarter profit more than doubled on higher sales of Vytorin and Zetia. The drugs, sold through a joint venture of the two companies, benefited from a $128 million advertising campaign.
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Zocor sales plunged to $178 million from $990 million a year earlier.
Gardasil, introduced a year ago, had sales of $358 million. Some analysts predict revenue from the cervical-cancer vaccine will reach $1.5 billion this year.
“It’s a very good period for Merck and it is quite sustainable,'’ said Kris Jenner, a fund manager for T. Rowe Price in Baltimore, in an interview. “They are in the early stages of very important product launches.'’
Lobbying Campaign
In February, Merck stopped lobbying state officials to require that girls receive Gardasil before they attend school after the American Academy of Pediatrics raised concerns about public acceptance and state funding to pay for the $360 vaccine.
Gardasil is designed to prevent infection with the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, or HPV, that cause cervical cancer. The vaccine is now approved for funding through the federal Vaccines for Children program in all 50 states, Merck said on July 16. About 40 percent of U.S. children get their vaccines through the program, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Merck’s Januvia, which came on the market in October 2006, had sales of $144 million, up from $87 million in the first quarter. Januvia has been gaining prescriptions amid setbacks for rival makers of diabetes pills, including GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s Avandia, linked to increased heart attacks, and a delay in U.S. approval for Novartis AG’s Galvus.
Sales of Janumet, a new diabetes medication that won U.S. marketing approval in March, were $24 million. The new drug combines Januvia with metformin, an older diabetes medicine.
Vioxx Litigation
Januvia is the first from a new class of diabetes drugs that enhance the body’s mechanisms for regulating blood sugar.
Sales of the asthma medication Singulair, Merck’s top- selling product since the loss of its Zocor patents, increased 15 percent to $1.1 billion.
Merck said earnings were reduced by $210 million because of an increase to $810 million in legal reserves for lawsuits over Vioxx. Merck withdrew the drug in 2004 after a company study showing the increased health risks. The company said it has been named a defendant in 26,950 lawsuits over the product.
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Posted by john on July 25th, 2007 — in Clarityn News
Lindsay Lohan allegedly amused herself in rehab by wandering around naked to shock male patients and staff.
The Mean Girls star - who recently spent 45 days in Malibu’s Promises Centre to be treated for alcoholism - was reportedly overheard bragging about her nude exploits at Allegra Versace’s birthday party.
A source told National Enquirer magazine: “Lindsay was howling with laughter as she told all her friends, including Bruce Willis’ daughter Rumer. They were all giggling too and their eyes were popping out.
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“Lindsay said, ‘I drove them all mad wandering around completely naked. They kept telling me to quit, but it was so much fun to tease all those boys. I just couldn’t stop it!’.”
Lindsay, 21, is currently trying to trace a hacker who stole naked pictures of her, taken by on/off lover Calum Best, from her computer.
The furious actress wrote on her internet message board: “All I know is that someone broke into my computer and left a file on my desktop saying they had the pictures Calum took of me naked. My lawyer knows about it.
“If I ever find out who broke into my computer, he is in big shit.”
Lindsay has instructed her legal team to ensure the intimate images are never released on the internet as she fears they could ruin her career.
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Posted by john on July 22nd, 2007 — in Clarityn News
A BABY from West Lothian is taking part in a national study to help discover why children develop an allergy to peanuts.
Seven-month-old eczema sufferer Cameron Brydon, from Livingston, has a 20 per cent chance of developing the allergy due to his condition.
Current advice states that families with a history of eczema or allergies should avoid exposure to the potential allergen.
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But a seven-year clinical research study is under way to discover whether consumption or avoidance of peanuts is actually the best strategy.
It is being conducted by Professor Gideon Lack at Evelina Children’s Hospital in London.
Cameron’s mother Karyln first heard about the study after watching a report on TV.
“I thought it sounded really interesting, so looked into how I could get involved,” she said.
Cameron must consume a peanut-containing snack three times a week
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Posted by john on July 17th, 2007 — in Clarityn News
A new study suggests strong variation in the occurrence of anaphylaxis between the northern and southern U.S. Anaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction that can be fatal without treatment with epinephrine. The striking north-south differences in EpiPen prescribing, a marker of anaphylaxis risk, currently are without explanation. The investigators hypothesize, however, that low levels of vitamin D from lack of sunshine, may play a role and that this hypothesis requires further investigation.
The study, “Regional differences in EpiPen prescriptions in the United States: The potential role of vitamin D,” can be found in the July 2007 issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI), the peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI).
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Carlos A. Camargo, MD, DrPH, FAAAAI, and colleagues obtained data on EpiPen prescriptions in 2004 for all 50 states and Washington, D.C. They used state populations to calculate the average number of prescriptions written per person.
Researchers found that on average, there were 5.71 EpiPens prescribed per 1000 persons in the U.S. The highest number of prescriptions per 1000 persons was in Massachusetts with 11.8. Hawaii had the lowest with 2.7 prescriptions per 1000 persons.
The team also found a regional difference in the number of prescriptions. New England had the highest values with 8 to 12 EpiPen prescriptions per 1000 persons, and southern states had only 3 prescriptions per 1000 persons. These findings persisted even after adjusting for differences in population characteristics, healthcare data and other factors.
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Posted by john on July 15th, 2007 — in Clarityn News
When the body’s immune system overacts, we have what is called an allergy.
An allergy is not an infection. It manifests because of your own body’s immune response.
All our bodies are primed to defend against foreign substances invading it, such as bacteria, viruses etc. This is a natural protective mechanism.
Sometimes, we have an exaggerated immune response when our body is in contact with certain foreign substances. These substances cause most people no harm, but our bodies sometimes see it as harmful. Thus, we are “allergic” or “atopic” to that particular substance.
These foreign substances that produce allergies in allergic people are called “allergens”.
The word allergy was coined in 1905 by an Austrian paediatrician named Clemens Pirquet. It is derived from the Greek words “allos”, meaning different or changed, and “ergos”, meaning work or action. Thus allergy roughly means “altered reaction”.
But I thought allergies were only confined to people with asthma?
No. There are many types of “allergic” diseases, including asthma and allergic rhinitis, and all come under the broad spectrum of allergy.
How does allergy manifest? Is it only itching? Or does it involve sneezing?
The parts of the body that are prone to react to allergies are the nose, skin, eyes, lungs, and stomach.
For example, in allergic rhinitis (commonly known as “hay fever”), you have runny nose, blocked or stuffy nose, sneezing, itching, and sometimes a lot of throat clearing because the liquid drips from behind your nose into your throat.
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Allergic rhinitis is the most common of the allergic diseases. Some people have it seasonally, especially during spring, where a lot of pollen is released. Some people have it all through the year, and this is usually caused by indoor allergens such as dust mites, animal dander, or moulds.
Asthma is another very common allergic disease. Here, there is shortness of breath, wheezing and chest tightness caused by the inflammation and spasm (narrowing) of the lung’s air passages (bronchial airways). A lot of people also have cough.
The eye is another commonplace for allergies. Allergic conjunctivitis is the inflammation of the conjunctiva, which causes redness, watery and itchy eyes and swelling.
In the skin, it manifests itself as “hives” (called urticaria). These are intensely itchy swellings that can occur on any part of your body.
Allergic reactions can also manifest as allergic eczema (atopic dermatitis). There is redness, itching, and dryness of the skin. This is common in children.
Do people die from allergies? I remember seeing this TV programme about a man who ate a peanut. He started to swell. He was dead within minutes.
This sounds a bit drastic, but yes, people have been known to die from allergies. Allergic shock (anaphylactic shock) sends the body into massive immune response overload, causing the tissues and organs to swell and the blood pressure to drop dramatically because the blood vessels turn leaky. This is usually in response to a food being eaten or a sting (for example, a bee or scorpion sting).
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