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Keeping Your Vacation Healthy and Allergy Free

Kathleen MacNaughton
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If the allergy medicine you're taking isn't working well after a week or two, then talk with your doctor. There are lots of options for allergy treatment these days, so if one kind of medicine doesn't work, there may be another that will work much better. Treating allergies is often a matter of trial and error.

 

Make sure you bring plenty of allergy medicine with you when you go on vacation too. Carry medicine in the original packaging, especially if you fly, and always carry it with you, rather than packing it in a suitcase. If you have food allergies or a history of anaphylaxis, bring autoinjectable epinephrine too. If you use an inhaler, be sure you carry that with you at all times.

 

If you take a proactive approach to managing your allergies this year, you can still have fun on vacation without allergy symptoms getting in the way!

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An allergy is the immune system's over-reaction to a normally harmless substance called an allergen.

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