Allergy medicine is generally an antihistamine, which unnaturally interferes with the body s normal attempts to protect itself. The mouth, nose, and eyes are the first line of defense. When antihistamines block normal clearing responses, the irritant or allergen is permitted to enter further into the body that it would normally have traveled. This is a side effect of antihistamines. You may thank God that you can breathe again, but for any drug, there is always a downside.
Antihistamines don t touch the underlying cause, they just suspend the body s ability to respond.
Holistic doctors grow weary of explaining this self-evident fact a dozen times a day to their patients. It s like if you re driving down the road and suddenly you hear a horrendous knocking noise coming from the engine, so you turn up the radio full blast to cover up the noise. Pretty stupid, but that s precisely what we re doing with allergy medication. The focus of allergy treatment should be to eliminate the underlying stimulus of the sinus blockage and the watery nose and eyes. Normal people can be around all of these and not react.