{"id":4988,"date":"2023-11-06T19:53:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T19:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2023-11-06T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T20:08:00","slug":"troy-health-center-gives-tips-to-handle-fall-allergies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/11\/06\/troy-health-center-gives-tips-to-handle-fall-allergies\/","title":{"rendered":"TROY Health Center gives tips to handle Fall allergies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Fall can bring many changes such as leaf colors and cooler temperatures. However, these changes also bring the risk of sickness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like in the spring, fall temperatures can kick start many allergens which can lead to your body fighting back against certain bacteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The body produces what we call histamine, which helps it fight some of these foreign substances,&#8221; said nurse practitioner Jacque Chrico. &#8220;But in doing that it makes you produce more secretions, more inflammation in your nasal passageway which gets to swelling.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chrico says if you start to develop symptoms, the best thing you can do is to get treatment right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of over-the-counter medicines for allergies. Take an antihistamine, which is like Claritin, Zyrtec, Alegria, Xyzal, and that helps the drainage part. Then there&#8217;s stuff like Mucinex which is an expectorant. That helps chest congestion.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In some cases where antibiotics do not work, there are some home remedies you can try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A lot of times it creates an irritated, sore red throat that&#8217;s not always a bacterial infection. So, antibiotics don&#8217;t work on this. You have to use a lot of home remedies; honey, lemon, and Vitamin C are good things to take.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, Chirico says not to panic if you start having symptoms, but to monitor them and make sure they do not get worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Start the treatment and watch your symptoms. If the symptoms are improving, great! If they&#8217;re not improving or they&#8217;re worsening, come make an appointment at the health center.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/student-life-resources\/student-resources\/health-center\/index.html\">Campus Health Center<\/a> is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Fall can bring many changes such as leaf colors and cooler temperatures. However, these changes also bring the risk of sickness.<\/p>\n<p>Like in the spring, fall temperatures can kick start many allergens which can lead to your body fighting back against certain bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The body produces what we call histamine, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/11\/06\/troy-health-center-gives-tips-to-handle-fall-allergies\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1125],"tags":[1240,1241,45],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-4988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-allergies","tag-health-center","tag-troy-university","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}