People all over the world love to eat peanuts. One of the most allergenic foods available today, peanuts are mostly used in the manufacturing of peanut butter but can be found in many other food products.

Anyone who is allergic to peanut butter should avoid food, which is labelled as having hydrolysed vegetable protein or groundnuts The allergic reaction can be fatal.

People who suffer from allergic reaction to peanuts should be aware that they have a lifelong problem with which even a very small amount of peanuts could kill them.

Some may experience an anaphylactic shock reaction, which starts and proceeds quite rapidly in the body. At the first sign of this reaction, epinephrine should be admitted. Otherwise, death may occur in a matter of minutes. Read the rest of this entry »

When dust mite droppings are repeatedly inhaled they can be the cause of skin and other problems with people who have atopic illnesses. If not inhaled, their effect becomes that much less of an issue. The question is, how does a person make sure that they are not inhaling this source of aggravation?

The first suggestion is obvious even to you if you had thought about it. You can live inside an iron lung. The good thing is dust mites are an indoor problem so when you go outside you can leave the lung alone until you go indoors again.

You may find it more feasible to treat your pillows for dust mites though. When you are sleeping if your bedding is not covered for dust mites your pillow will be loaded with dust mite feces and enzymes, and you will inhale the particles. Lets say you decided to use a mask to cover your nose and mouth when asleep. To that I say good try. But if the pores on your mask are more than 3 microns wide, it will be permeated by the dust mites’ allergic droppings. Read the rest of this entry »