Do you know allergies are immune reactions to a substance in the environment? A substance, which results in an allergic reaction, is named an allergen. When children with allergies come into a contact with an allergen – either by breathing it, eating it, touching it, or having it injected – their body mistakenly view it as a risky invader and then, the body releases histamines together with some other chemicals to beat it. If your children have allergies, so what you need to do is to help your children get rid of allergies quickly within a few days. I am Hang Pham, an author from the site Vkool.com, and I made this article to show you the best natural home remedies for allergies in both babies and toddlers.

Natural Home Remedies For Allergies – Discover The Best Remedy That Works For Your Babies And Toddlers’ Allergies

Allergists recommend that some allergies can become severe and need to be cared by a doctor or health care professionals. For some simple cases, home remedies can provide all the relief that you need with a relatively little expense. Even someone with bad allergies who needs medications can find these following remedies helpful for easing his or her symptoms. Keep reading this article to get more details about safe and effective home remedies for allergies only by using time-tested methods together with everyday materials.

I. Natural Home Remedies For Allergies In Babies

So many things may trigger an allergic reaction such as nuts, milk, bee stings, shellfish, pollen, and dust mites. Here are the best natural remedies for treating main types of allergies in babies.

1. Natural And Safe Remedies For Seasonal Allergy 

• Use Saltwater: If your baby hasnasal congestion, your child may be suffering from one of the most exhausting symptoms for babies with allergies. To get a relief, you baby should apply a nasal irrigation with saltwater, one of the best home remedies of nasal congestion. You can get saline at a local drugstore or you can make your own saltwater by mixing in a squirt bottle 8 ounces of water to 1 teaspoon of non-iodized salt.

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• Stay Hydrated:All that blowing and sneezing may leave a child parched. Therefore, you should encourage your child to stay well-hydrated. On the other hand, you can try a weak tea with lemon and honey. In addition, the steam from a piping hot cup can help relieve sinus congestion.

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• Stay Inside:Allergists at ACAAI (American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology) say that for babies,the best way to cure seasonal allergy symptoms is to prevent allergens to begin with. Therefore, when pollen counts soar, you should keep your child indoors as much as possible. The pollen is frequently at its peak at early evening, mid-morning, and when the wind blows. If you want to keep pollen out when the weather is hot, you should turn off the air condition of your home and car, and keep windows closed.
• Deal With Dry Air: Do you know a little of moisture in the air will make breathing become easier for most; therefore, if you think the air in your home is dry, you can want to turn on your humidifier. However, be careful: when the humidity over 40%, it can promote the growth of indoor allergens such as mold and dust mites.
• Warm It Up:  Asriani Chiu, an associate professor of the medicine and pediatrics at the College of Wisconsin uncovers that using a hot shower or bath can help relieve seasonal allergy symptoms quickly, so you should let your child to enjoy a little tub time.
• Avoid Certain Foods: In case your children are allergic to ragweed, they can also have the allergic sensitivity to some foods. In this condition, your babies need to avoid symptom-provoking foods including chamomile tea, bananas, sunflower seeds, melons, and cucumbers.
• Rub Jelly On It: When your baby’s nose is red and raw from blowing, you should soothe your baby’s sniffer with a dab of the petroleum jelly.
• Get Face Time: When itchy eyes make your kid crazy, you should try a cold compress that can help reduce the inflammation and itch. In addition, warm compresses that are applied to the face can help soothe a baby’s sinus pressure and pain.

With the next part of this article, you will discover more about home remedies for allergies in babies.

2. Natural And Safe Remedies For Food Allergy

• Avoid Foods That May Cause Allergy Symptoms: When preparing meals for your baby, you should avoid 8 food groups that are responsible for 90 % of food allergies including wheat, soy, cow’s milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts (like cashews, Brazil nuts, and walnuts), fish (such as cod, salmon, and tuna), and shellfish (like shrimp, lobster and crab).
• Apply Nasal Saline Spray: You can flush your baby’s nose 2 or 3 times a day with nasal saline spray to ease congestion.
• Delay Introducing Solid Foods: You should delay introducing solid foods involving cereals to your baby until he or she is 6 months old
• Change The Formula Milk: When your baby has allergy with formula milk, you should change other milk products. However, food specialist advice that you should feed your baby only breast milk.
• Introduce One Food At A Time: Introducing one food at a time is the best way to avoid having food allergy for your baby.

Recommended reading: 25 Ways To Prevent Allergies Naturally Without Medication At Home

3. Natural And Safe Remedies For Drug Allergy

• When you baby have drugs allergy, you should stop taking the drugs, which triggered the reaction
• Using cool compresses on the affected area or getting the body take cool showers.
• Using baby wash that are natural and safe for babies’ skin
• Staying in a cool room and wearing loose-fitting and lightweight clothes.
• For a rash, applying calamine lotion

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4. Natural And Safe Remedies For Nasal Allergy

There are a variety of herbal home remedies that can help treat nasal allergies including:

• Try to drink 1 or 2 cups of chamomile tea per day to reduce swollen nasal passages.
• Apply ginger remedies. Ginger can lessen allergic inflammations; therefore, your baby should take 1000 milligrams of ginger 3 to 4 times a day.
• Use whole herbs or essential oils with boiling water may help open clogged nasal passages. Some herbs your baby can use are eucalyptus, thyme and peppermint. You can take some steps to apply these herbs such as adding a few drops of the oil or soaking one ounce of the herb to a cup of water and then inhaling the steam.
• Use a saline solution with a neti pot to clean out the nasal passages.

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II. Natural Home Remedies For Allergies In Toddlers

1. Natural And Safe Remedies For Seasonal Allergy

• Gargle To Relieve Sore Throats: If seasonal changes leave your child with a sore throat, you can help your child gargle with a little of warm salt water that is made of 1 to 2 tablespoons of table salt in eight ounces of water.
• Keep It Clean: Bad air quality can make allergies worse; therefore, take steps to improve the indoor air. You should open windows in your home to ventilate your space. Besides, you need to use natural cleaning products, and you do not use your fireplace or burn scented candles. In addition, you have to keep an eye out for some other things, which can pollute your house’s air such as air “fresheners”, gardening pesticides, and conventional paint.
• Try A Natural Histamine Block:Some people claim that apple cigar vinegar and nettles are best remedies for children with seasonal allergy. However, neither are the easiest things to have kids to swallow. If you want your child to try them, add a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down.
• Skip The Fragrance: Perfume can exacerbate allergies. It is found in everything from body care creams to shampoo and fabric softeners. Therefore, when your child has allergy symptoms, you need to use fragrance-free personal care products and fragrance-free laundry detergents. In addition, if you line-dry, you should give it a rest during the allergy season. This is very important with sheets because pollen can stick to wet fabric when it dries. I believe that you do not want your allergic child to sleep on air-dried pillowcases until the pollen subsides.

• Raw Local Honey: This is a remedy that the kids will beg to take. The human body may build the tolerance to local allergy triggers by just using raw local honey. However, you should keep in mind that raw honey is not considered safe for a baby under one.
• Spice It Up: If your child enjoys spicy foods, you can cook a piquant dish that is made with hot ginger, fenugreek, onions, cayenne pepper, or garlic. This food can help thin mucus as well as clear nasal passages.
• Use Quercetin: Quercetin is a flavonoid or a plant pigment with the molecular structure that is derived from flavones. Quercetin is found in vegetables, fruits, leaves and grains. Quercetin can be used like an ingredient in beverages, supplements, and foods. Using Quercetin will help relieve seasonal allergies quickly. It also helps prevent seasonal allergies for children if it is taken daily about 6 to 8 weeks before the allergy season begins. The best way is taking 125 to150 milligrams 3 times per day.
• Apply A Saline Solution: Applying a saline solution to your child can cleanse his or her nose and then ease nasal allergy symptoms.
• Stay Inside: Allergists recommend that breathing polluted air will make your child’s allergic symptoms worse. Therefore, you should avoid cigarette smoke in your home, and keep your windows closed on high-pollen and high-ozone days.

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2. Natural And Safe Remedies For Food Allergy

• Stop Foods That Contain Allergens: when you see you children have allergy signs, you need to stop the offending allergen in their diet. It is the primary treatment of the food allergy.
• Eat Foods That Contain Antihistamines: antihistamines will help relieve gastrointestinal symptoms, sneezing, hives, and a runny nose
• Become Vigilant About Reading Food Labels: you should know which ingredients to avoid. When eating out, you can ask about ingredients in restaurant foods or dishes.
• Avoid Top Food Allergens On Product Labels: when preparing foods for your child, you need to avoid processed foods that include peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, soy, eggs, milk, crustacean shellfish (lobster, crab, and shrimp), mollusks like (oysters, clams, and squid) and fish.
• Use An Ice Pack: apply an ice pack to the affected area to keep swelling down
• Avoid Tobacco Smoke:  smoke will make allergies worse; therefore, it is important to help your child have a smoke-free environment.
• Snacking: let your child snack on green peas coated in wasabi to help reduce allergy symptoms.

If you want to know more about home remedies for allergies in toddlers continue reading this article.

3. Natural And Safe Remedies For Drug Allergy 

Have you ever had trouble with one drug? Some drugs or pills may cause drowsiness or an upset stomach. However, some of drugs may threaten our life. According to studies of drugs and their side effects on human body, drugs put over 2 million people into the hospitals per year. Every year, drugs can cause over 100,000 deaths. In other words, the number of serious reaction of drugs goes up every year. To reduce drug allergies for your child, you need:

• You may only have to stop the drug for a mild reaction
• Avoid detergents, strong soaps, and other chemicals when having a more serious allergic drug reaction, which is not life-threatening
• Drink plenty of water and eat foods that help boost the immune system

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4. Natural And Safe Remedies For Nasal Allergy

Nasal allergies are known as a hypersensitive reaction to normally harmless substances. This type of allergy can affect people of any age and can be triggered by plants, pollen, feathers, animal dander and other environmental elements. There are a lot of natural and safe treatments that are available to help alleviate these reactions.

• Take 10 to 15 drops of chen-pi in tincture form with 1/4 cup of water 3 times a day
• Daily take one teaspoon of horseradish that is prepared to ease congestion until symptoms are improved.
• Take about 200 milligrams of grape seed or pine bark extract daily to put an end to a runny nose.
• Drink rooibos tea, a natural antihistamine that help relieve nasal allergy quickly
• Sting nettle can provide a dramatic relief from your child’s hay fever and stop a runny nose.
• Rub the chamomile cream on your child’s diaphragm to loosen up the muscles as well as improve breathing
• Daily drink 8 glasses of steam distilled water
• Avoid tap water
• Apply hot showers to rinse off pollen and then open up sinuses
• Steam to soothe your child’s sinuses and help get rid of the nasal passages of mucus
• Dehumidify to remove excess moisture from the air and keep your house feeling comfortable and smelling fresh

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To see all of our home remedies and the conditions they treat, go to our main Health A-Z page.

After reading my overview of home remedies for allergies in babies and toddlers, I hope that it helps you find the best allergy remedy for your child. This post is part of a series about natural home remedies for allergies and other common diseases and conditions. Got a question? Need answers? Leave a comment below. Now are you ready to try some of these home remedies for allergies?

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