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Our interactive Allergy Climates and Seasons blog provides a place where people can interact together about climates, seasons, and locations that are best for their allergies.
During my years as an allergy nurse, I was asked about allergy symptoms every day. Explaining the prescribed treatment was part of my job. Helping patients find allergy relief is very rewarding.
I've also helped people find relief through our legacy Ask a Nurse and Allergy Solutions features. We're not currently providing the 'Ask a Nurse' service, but there's a good chance your question has been answered there already. You can easily search for answers to your allergy questions by using the search box at the top left of this page. You can also browse the questions and solutions areas.
A few weeks after my second strabismus surgery in January of 2007, my ability to focus my eyes got worse. It took a lot of effort to see well enough to do my job. We had a nurse out on leave, and it was the middle of Spring allergy season. Our temp nurse did a great job, but I had to assume a lot more duties, and I had difficulty keeping up.
In March of 2007, my employer thought it best to seek a replacement for me. It was difficult to have to give up my job, but I was thankful to be given the opportunity to stay for an extended period of time to train her. I quickly became friends with, and learned to appreciate, the nurse he chose. She will do a great job. June 15, 2007, was my last day to work in that position.
I started working for a general Allergist in the Spring of 1991. When he moved to another state in 1995, I worked for an Internist for 3 1/2 years. Then for a short while I worked on a surgical unit of a local hospital. This broadened my knowledge for when I returned to allergy nursing in 1998 to work for my most recent employer. But even during time away from direct allergy practice, patients often asked me allergy questions when they learned that I was also an Allergy Nurse.
Although I'll be sharing with you as a former Allergy Nurse now, I plan to keep abreast of new developments in the field through continuing education. I'll also be updating the rest of this site to reflect these changes. Meanwhile our plans are to bring you the same great service. I'm doing much better with the strabismus now that my eyes are rested, and should be better able to work on the website than I was before. I hope to complete the website remodeling project soon. I had to abandon it when my eyes got bad, and that's why some pages here are still sporting our old design. You can read my latest update about my strabismus if you like.
My ongoing problems with strabismus made it harder to provide this service to you during the past 2 years. But I've found ways to get around the problems and make our help site even better than before. Here are some recent comments we've received from you that let us know our efforts are working.
Recently, Ruth in Florida wrote us to say:
This is just a Thank you. Most sites that say they want to "help" you just want your email address first before you get any real info. Thank you for actually offering information that helps!
When our web hosting server was down temporarily, Meridith in Oregon told us:
I've tried many different links, and it appears the climates database is down. I find this info incredibly useful, so I just wanted to make you aware of the problem.
We're so grateful to all of you who find our work helpful, and continue to support us by using our website, encouraging us, and visiting our sponsors.
AllergyNursing.com was started in 2001 to meet a need. People were looking for reliable and easily understood information about allergies, and it was hard to find. Nurses are often the best qualified to meet such a need. Physicians rely on their nurses to explain further to patients the things the physician told them.
Our first Allergy Nursing Newsletter was published on June 11, 2001. Material for the newsletters was based on real live questions you were asking. Newsletters are not currently being published, but you can read all the info we shared in the Newsletters at our Allergy Relief and Allergy Questions archives.
Our interactive Allergy Climates and Seasons blog was started in July of 2005, and has become one of our most popular features.
We've sometimes been asked to write or participate in articles for other publications. For example, Steve from National Allergy Supply asked me to write a multi-part series for National Allergy Newsletter. Topics in the series include:
You can see the first two sections (the "Why" sections) here. The third section (What can I do about them?) is here.
More recently, we contributed to an item for nurses published in Advance for Nurses.
The April, 2007, issue of Medical News of Arkansas mentions our Allergy Climates blog "which tracks people's experiences with allergens in various parts of the country." It also shares part of an interview we did for them, including our recommendations for those allergic to dust mites.
There has been some research into the possibility of a connection between Sinusitis and Strabismus. This was especially interesting to me, since I have Strabismus (often called squint or lazy eye, though most people with Strabismus do not like to be referred to as having a lazy eye.) I published an article on my Eyes Apart blog recently that shares more about the research on Sinusitis and Strabismus.
We continue to move forward with the goal we established in 2001: To provide reliable and easily understood information about allergies. Thank you for helping to make AllergyNursing.com a trusted leader in online allergy information.
This page updated July 16, 2007 by Lois Turley, RN
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