Robert Hruzek of Middle Zone Musings has challenged his fellow bloggers to showcase their best of 2009. Here's mine! This year has been quite a journey for me and my family. It was a rough winter: someone was sick in our house for every week between late October and ...

Here's the bad news: it's not just dust and mold that could haunt your home when you get out the Christmas tree. You could actually bring pollen into your home with your tree, especially if you are a Texas resident. Apparently, Mountain Cedar evergreens (more common in the Lonestar state) release ...

Today is Blog Action Day. The topic is climate change. It's a big topic. Climate change will affect us all: but if you have seasonal allergies, it may pack a double-whammy. Research shows that climate change is affecting the length and severity of ...

My son, who has had seasonal allergies for the past few years, came home sniffling a couple weeks back. We didn't react: after all, he's only recently started to be substantially free of seasonal allergy symptoms, and so we thought that perhaps something had triggered an allergic reaction. He complained ...

More and more kids are developing allergies and asthma. In fact, the first world appears to be in the midst of an allergy epidemic, with numbers increasing across the board: The overall rate of food allergy increased almost 20 percent between 1997 and 2007 according to the CDC, with 4 out ...