The secret to beating hay fever could lie in your gut
A growing body of studies suggest that there might be an alternative method for tackling our symptoms – through our diet. Find out how to eat the sniffles away.
“Twenty-five per cent of UK adults get hay fever, and a good 15-20 per cent of those won’t get adequate relief just by taking antihistamines and using nasal sprays,” says Prof Adam Fox, consultant paediatric allergist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals. “Hay fever affects performance, productivity and quality of life. For the people who suffer badly, it’s no joke.”
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There is no cure for allergies, which are notoriously difficult to treat. But a glimmer of hope may finally be on the horizon. A growing body of studies suggest that there might be an alternative method for tackling our symptoms – through our diet, and dietary supplements. |
How to banish snoring and reduce your dementia risk
It’s the bane of many couples’ lives, but severe snoring can severely damage your health too. Here’s what you can do about it.If you often wake up feeling breathless or experience excessive sleepiness during the day, you could be suffering from a surprisingly common condition, called obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), which could leave you at risk of memory issues and, possibly, even dementia.
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The gold standard treatment for OSA is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), essentially a machine that blows air into your nose at night, ensuring that your airway remains open while you sleep. In recent years, scientists have tweaked the technology to make it more comfortable for the user, with newer devices automatically adjusting the pressure in accordance with the patient’s sleep stage or sleeping position.
However, while CPAPs tend to work extremely well in preventing OSA, many patients struggle to use them for more than a few weeks or months. Issues reported range from discomfort, to struggling to get to sleep with a device on their face, complaints from their partner about the noise of the machine, and even abdominal pain from swallowing too much of the pressurised air. Leschziner admits that more than half of patients tend to have quit the devices after one year, unless they experience a particularly dramatic change in their health.
For patients with particularly severe OSA, where the obstructions are happening several hundred times a night, doctors can even recommend surgery to open the top of the palate. |
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