Im seeing a lot of people talking about how bad their environmental allergies are. PURCHASE LOCALLY GROWN HONEY!!! This process is called immunotherapy. Honey contains a variety of the same pollen spores that give allergy sufferers so much trouble when flowers and grasses are in bloom. Introducing these spores into the body in small amounts by eating honey should make the body accustomed to their presence and decrease the chance an immune system response like the release of histamine will occur [source: AAFP]. Since the concentration of pollen spores found in honey is low -- compared to, say, sniffing a flower directly -- then the production of antibodies shouldnt trigger symptoms similar to an allergic reaction. Ideally, the honey-eater wont have any reaction at all.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 15:44:19 +0000
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