Allergies + Honey

[sparrow]

Hey Everyone!

Anyone else being slayed by allergies this season? Mine have not been this bad in years. I'm wondering if anyone has ever tried the natural remedy of eating local honey to combat allergies? Did it work for you?

TIA

Sparrow

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[Miss Lee]

I've been eating small amounts of locally harvested honey everyday for the last 2 or 3 months, and I do think it helped a bit, but I'm not ready to throw out my Flonase. I haven't exactly approached this scientifically, and I don't know if there's a prescribed amount of honey that you're supposed to consume in a days time, but I've been adding it to natural peanut butter, fresh fruit salads, tea, toast, etc. It's worth a try.

 

[emackay]

Sparrow,

I've been doing this for about 2 years and am not sure how much it has helped. However, this year I started taking calcium, magnesium, a b complex, and e - and have had ZERO allergies. I was/am taking these for pms bloating, etc., but the lack of allergies is really amazing. It might take some time to kick in, but it might be worth a try. I don't really know what this combo does, but it may have some anti-inflammatory effects - and the vitamins won't hurt you.

Good luck with your allergies...

arancini

 

[Sunshine 1528]

Just saw a program on this last week. I would guess, though, that unless you were eating the type of honey that has the pollens you are affected by, it might not help.

If you know what you are allergic to, it would make sense to me since I myself feel that I have become immune to a few of our local allergens but seem now to have allergy flareups at different times of the year.

Kinda like after having had poison oak so badly so many times, I am not affected by it at all now - course it only took 30+ years :7

In thinking about it also, when you go to an allergist and they figure out what you are allergic to, they shoot those pollens into you so you build up an immunity.

Guess it is time to figure out what you are allergic to and then find out if the bees actually harvest that pollen.

I just remembered the program was about a bee keeper in NY City who had beehives ontop of the highrise buildings. They people in the city at the honey and said it helped. Wonder if it works for them since they have so little vegetation there?

 

[kathryn]

>Just saw a program on this last week. I would guess, though,
>that unless you were eating the type of honey that has the
>pollens you are affected by, it might not help.

Since most store-bought honey is highly processed, this may not help then, unless you get RAW honey (some of which contains bits of pollen on top of it.

 

[kathryn]

>Kinda like after having had poison oak so badly so many times,
>I am not affected by it at all now - course it only took 30+
>years :7

That's odd, because I would assume poison oak is much like poison ivy (they both have urushiol in), and you actually become more sensitive to poison ivy the more you are exposed to it.

 

[jordysyd]

Honey can be helpful but it must be RAW and unfiltered. Bee pollen will help the honey along since it's really the pollen in the honey which desensitizes you. For my allergies, I take chlorella all summer and have had nary a symptom in two years. That is, unless I stop taking it. I get it here:

http://shop.mercola.com/Nutrition_Products-Chlorella___Single_Bottle-P155.aspx