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Suffering from chronic sinus congestion in the ears and nose can leave you feeling absolutely miserable and can stop you from living your normal day to day life.
Chronic congestion of the sinuses typically effect adults aged between 20 and 65 years of age. With the majority of this age group working, it results in a lot of sick days; actually, around 25 million sick days are taken every single year just from sinus troubles.
Common treatments for sinus congestion come in the form of steroid sprays that are prescribed by your doctor. There are also other treatments that can be prescribed that are meant to help prevent the risk of an attack. These methods of treatment are of course quick and easy to do but they are often only masking the symptoms as opposed to treating the actual causes of these congestion symptoms.
The conclusion people usually jump to is pollen or house dust but there are strong indicators that there may be a triggered reaction from food allergy or food intolerance.
Finding these problematic foods can often be difficult and hardly worth the effort due to the time it takes from constantly having to monitor what you are eating and recording the effects, this is often made worse due to the time it takes for symptoms to arise from food intolerances.
If you are up for the challenge, then you must start a food diary and track absolutely everything you eat and when you eat it, from there you must record how you are feeling, good or bad and the times you are feeling it. After a few months you may be able to start spotting trends and from there you can then start the second stage of the diet and start eliminating foods and recording the results. If you stop suffering from the symptoms after removing a particular food or food group from your diet then chances are you have found the problem food that was causing your intolerance symptoms.
There is however another method that is more widely used which is quick and easy that requires no diary and no diet. It is a blood test that can be taken in the comfort of your own home and then posted to a laboratory for testing. The blood sample that is taken is a simple painless finger prick; you then simply pop it in the post and wait for your results.
The tests taken measure food-specific IgG antibodies, in doing so scientists can pin point exactly what might be causing your food intolerance which could be the cause of your chronic sinus congestion.
Once you get your results you simply avoid those foods that have been identified. Dr. Gillian Hart is a Scientific Director for YorkTest Laboratories specialists in food intolerance testing. For more information on types of food intolerance that may be causing IBS symptoms and migraine symptoms visit www.yorktest.com.
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