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Quit Smoking: Do It For Your Kids

Posted on21. Oct, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

If You, or Your Children, Have Asthma, Rhinitis, Sinusitis, Otitis, … If your child has any of these chronic inflammatory aero-digestive disorders, YOU. MUST. QUIT. SMOKING. Tobacco smoke has been shown, with no doubt, to cause all of these ailments: asthma, rhinitis, sinusitis, otitis.  Not to mention that smoking will take, on average, 15 years [...]

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Some Facts About Your Air Quality From the American Lung Association

Posted on07. Oct, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

From the American Lung Association, here are some facts about our air quality for 2010. Some of them are encouraging, like improved air quality in most of the worst-polluted cities compared to last year’s list. Some discouraging, like just how bad our air quality remains. The list provides some tips on improving our air quality. Continue reading to check it out …

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Chronic Airway-Digestive Inflammatory Disorders: do YOU have CAID?

Posted on23. Sep, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

Allergic Rhinitis: 40 – 50 Million in USA with allergic rhinitis 10-30%  of adults have allergic rhinitis Almost 40% of children miss some school each year due to allergies! 12 Million doctor-visits per year for allergic rhinitis! 55% of those with sinusitis have history of allergic rhinitis. Sinusitis: estimated 20-30 Million in USA with sinusitis [...]

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Use Plants to Purify and Detoxify Your Air

Posted on15. Jul, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

Interesting story: We have NASA and an asthmatic in India to thank for finding the right plants to detoxify our air for us. That’s right, NASA – the space people, and a business man with severe asthma. And plants also provide us with oxygen as an added benefit. Here’s the story …

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The Human Pollution Experiment …

Posted on08. Jul, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

“… OK then, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, we’ll put your little Sally in this box for 6 months, and pipe industrial waste smoke into the box to see how that affects her nose and lungs and stuff. Oh, and we’ll need to take some surgical biopsies occasionally. You’re cool with that, right?
Just sign here …”

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Honey – Nature’s Antibiotic

Posted on24. Jun, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

You may have noticed that your honey never seems to develop mold or bacterial contamination, even when it isn’t refrigerated after opening.  We now know why this is: honey has innate anti-microbial activity. Honey is a natural antibiotic !!  Who knew? Well, it seems that ancient humans knew:  For over 2 thousand years humans have [...]

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What You Need To Know About Everyday Bacteria

Posted on21. Jun, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

Check out this INFOGRAPHIC on bacteria. It’s full of interesting information.

For example, I’ll bet you didn’t know:

That the face of your cell phone has 100 times more bacteria on it than your toilet seat!

These facts and more …

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Sinus Rinses: if once/day is good, is 4x/day even better?

Posted on03. Jun, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

And other stuff on my mind …

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Some Good Books, and Other Stuff

Posted on25. Apr, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

By my calculations, if only 138 Million of you click through my link to Amazon and spend $1,000 each, I will have enough to help support my Fig Newton addiction. That’ll happen, right?

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Saline Sinus Rinses: What Good Are They? 1/4

Posted on22. Apr, 2010 by Russell A. Faust, PhD, MD.

I have been personally coping with allergic rhinitis from the age of 6 or so, and with recurrent and chronic sinusitis for at least 20 years now. Although I was fortunate that allergy desensitization (allergy shots), gave me great relief, somewhere around age 8, I am not completely symptom free. Antihistamines, the standard conventional treatment, were not much benefit. And I hate the side effects. So, about 10 years ago I began using the home remedy of nasal-sinus irrigation using a weak salt water (saline) concoction. This is a method of cleansing the nasal and sinus cavities.

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