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September 24, 2008 (last updated December 21, 2008)
By Susan Callahan, Health Editor and Featured Columnist
Why is that we get more congested at night than during
the day? Night time congestion and sinusitis afflicts more
than 35 million Americans and up to 75 million during the
peak of allergy season.
Here are the top 10 ways to stop night time congestion.
1. Change Your Clothes. Some air borne allergies are
worse at night because you are exposed to them during the
day, keep the same clothes on when you come home. The
allergens cling to your clothing and your exposure
accumulates to a significant point of irritation by nightfall.
Try changing your clothes immediately after coming home
from work.
2. Wash Your Hair. Wash your hair and shower because
pollen and other air borne allergens cling to your hair also.
3. Wash Your Pillow Cases. Also, wash your bed clothes
more often during allergy season, since allergens are
transmitted from your hair and skin each night.
4. Use a humidifier. Put Vicks vapor rub in the humidifer if
its equipped for that. If it's not, put a mint leaf in the water.
5. Don't Overuse Allergy Medication. Overuse of allergy
medication creates a rebound effect which can make
congestion worse. Also, never use two different allergy
medications at the same time. Article Continues Below.
6. Drink peppermint tea. Mint reduces nasal congestion.
The steam from the tea also soothes nasal passages ad
relieves congestion.
7. Remove all rugs. Rugs are create homes for dust mites.
Whenever you can, remove rugs and walk on bare wooden
or tile floors.
8. Wear a tee shirt. Wearing a cotton tee shirt helps to keep
your body at a more constant temperature as the night
cools, and reduces the risk of night chills which contribute
to congestion. Flannel does not work as well, since it tends
to make you overheat at night, which makes you sweat,
which leads to night chills.
9. Wear a scarf or bandana on your head. Most of your
heat is loss through your head. Wearing a bandana can
help your body to normalize ts temperature at night and
reduce the occurrence of night chills and congestion. It's
not always pretty but it works.
10. Do Not Allow Your Pet to Sleep on Your Pillows. Many
people with pets let them sleep on their beds. Fine. But
keep them away form your pillows. Their shedded hair and
pet dander will aggravate respiratory allergies and
contribute to night time congestion.
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11. Avoid artificial sweeteners. From my personal
experience, over use of aspartame caused a thick, cloudy
pressure in my sinuses which my doctor diagnosed as
sinusitis. It went away after I stopped using sweeteners
for about 3 days. Drink a lot of water to flush out any
artificical sweeteners that are still in your system.
12. Vicks Vapor Rub. Use a tiny dab on the sinus spots on
your face (these are located on either side of your nose
and between your eye brows). Some people also find that
rubbing Vicks vapor rub on the soles of their feet at night
also opens up the sinuses. No one knows why. When I was
little, my Mom used to place a drop under my nostrils which
also helped.
13. Affrin. Affrin is recommended by many sinusitus
sufferers for relieving the pressure.
14. Saline Rinse. Use saline solution to blow your nose. It
reduces sinus congestion pretty fast.
15. Oil of Oregano. Put 4 or 5 drops in a glass of water and
drink it every day. Relief comes within a month. It doesn't
work for every one but it works for many people.
16. Change Your Filters and Clean Your Vents. During the
winter, many people are affected by indoor allergens.
Change the filters on the heater in your house. Clean the
vents.
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