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- Website: Informed Health Online
- Resource type: Article
Summary - The message of this resource is:
The best way to prevent allergy symptoms is to avoid allergy triggers in the first place. Keep your house clean and dry to keep mold and dust mites away. Other non-medical treatments that may help are saline nasal sprays, nasal irrigation, acupuncture and acupressure.
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allergies, dust mites, hay fever, prevention, mold
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Rated on: 1/19/2017 4:15:21 PM
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