Spring will soon be upon us and that means one thing: allergies. Luckily, chiropractic is here to help with seasonal allergies and sinus pain. Allergies, whether mild or severe, are the result of a chemical called histamine. Medications like Benedryl® and Zyrtec® are anti-histamines and work by stopping the release and activation of histamine. Like all things in the body, histamine plays an important role in your body’s function. Histamine’s job is to stimulate and assist the immune system to fight off allergens such as pollen, dander, and dust. However, over stimulation of histamine can make us all miserable with seasonal allergies and sinus pain.
Regular chiropractic care helps to stabilize the nervous system, a major regulator of the immune system. By maintaining a clear nervous system, the immune system can work more appropriately and keep us from experiencing intense allergy symptoms. In addition, general sinus pain can also be relieved by the correction of vertebral subluxations in the cervical spine and manual therapy of the pressure points of the frontal and maxillary sinuses.
