People who work professionally with pesticides know they’re working with a product that has a bad reputation for possibly causing cancer, birth defects, and other health problems.
Use of pesticides is still quite common as people are hired to protect crops. And, what the workers may not know, is if they have chronically stuffy, runny or itchy noses, this could be due to the pesticides.
Rhinitis, the medical term for a runny nose, is a common problem. Sometimes the cause can be traced to an allergy or a cold, but sometimes it appears to happen for no reason. Researchers from the National …read more

My son and I are on yet another round of antibiotics, this time for strep throat. I’ve always been a bit cautious with antibiotics, I suppose because my father is an immunologist and rarely drugged us as kids. He sort laughed off that notion it seemed everyone else had that if your nose runs, all you need to do is call the doc and load up on some antibiotics. My father argued that antibiotics did nothing for viruses, the cause of the flu, most sore throats, bronchitis and the common cold. If anything, he said, taking them unnecessarily could arm …read more