WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 2017 | LANCASTER, PA Health & Wellness Special Advertising Supplement Nothing to SNEEZE at With allergy season in full swing, here are some tips on how to find relief CATHY MOLITORIS LNP CUSTOM CONTENT CONTRIBUTOR lowers aren’t the only thing springing up this season. Allergies are in full bloom, too. “We are right in the middle of tree pollen al- lergy season,” says Dr. Laura Fisher, of Lancast- er Family Allergy. “It’s really bad right now.” Fisher says there are ways to distinguish aller- gies from a cold, including taking into account the time of year. “If it keeps happening to you, that you feel the symptoms year after year at the same time each year, it’s most likely allergies,” she says. Allergies also have diferent symptoms than colds, including itchy eyes, which can be mis- taken for something else. “Kids are being sent home from school with pink eye, but it’s really allergy eyes,” Fisher says. Itching is a sign you’re sufering from aller- gies, she says. And, you won’t have a fever or body aches with allergies, but you might have those with a cold. Treatment options Many allergy symptoms can be treated with over-the-counter medication. Fisher recom- mends avoiding diphenhydramine like Benad- ryl, which tends to only provide short-term re- lief and can have a sedative efect. “For some kids, Benadryl can actually make them hyper,” she says. Instead, she suggests any of three medica- tions: Zyrtec, Claritin or Allegra. “These work well to tackle itching and sneez- ing,” she says. Over-the-counter nose sprays can also be ef- fective, although Fisher cautions against Afrin for long-term use. “It’s like cocaine for the nose,” she says. “Your nose gets addicted and actually swells up from use and you need more to settle it down.” Fisher says that nose sprays including Flonase, Nasacort or Rhinocort can be efective, and some are safe for children as young as 2. Eye drops can provide relief, but Fisher says to avoid Visine, which can also cause rebound symptoms like Afrin can. She suggests Zaditor eye drops for an over- the-counter option. If you’ve tried over-the-counter medication and haven’t found relief, it’s probably time to see your family doctor, allergist or pulmonolo- gist, Fisher says. “There are tons of prescription options that can provide relief,” she explains. Anyone experiencing asthma symptoms, shortness of breath or prolonged coughing should also see a doctor. Sometimes, however, medication isn’t enough. “I sort of have a two-meds rule,” Fisher says. “If you’re on more than two medications and you need them to get through allergy season, it HEADING OUTDOORS? Fisher says it’s not necessary to avoid the outdoors altogether if you sufer from allergies, but there are precautions you can take. “If you’re outside and the wind is blowing around, change your clothes when you come inside and rinse of to get the pollen of you,” she recommends. If your pet is outside with you, wipe them down with a wet cloth to remove pollen once inside. And, keep your windows closed. “I know it’s hard when we’re having beautiful weather, but you want to close your windows and use your air conditioning,” she says. “It’s the best option for anyone who has allergies.” THINKSTOCK Farm to desk: CSAs help businesses promote good health CATHY MOLITORIS LNP CUSTOM CONTENT CONTRIBUTOR Three letters can deliver home- grown goodness right to your workplace. A CSA, or community supported agriculture program, provides fresh fruits, vegetables and other farm products through a subscription service. And, it’s a perk being ofered to businesses throughout Lancaster County and beyond through local farms. “Working with local companies and integrating a CSA program into their culture is something that we have been doing for over 10 years,” says Elizabeth Donsky, CSA manager for Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative. “This model beneits the workplace, the em- ployee, the co-op and ultimately, the local farmers. It’s a win-win for everyone.” Lancaster Farm Fresh Coopera- tive, which is a nonproit organic farmer’s cooperative of more than 100 family farmers, works with businesses ranging from schools and universities to technology and manufacturing irms and trucking companies. The Collegeville location of Pizer Inc. has been working with Lancaster Farm Fresh to provide CSAs for employees since 2016, says Betty Clarke, senior manager of architecture and technology. “Our employees have enjoyed the availability of this service at our site,” she says, noting that about 65 employees participate in the program. “The shares are delivered from Lancaster Farm Fresh every week and a pickup lo- cation is setup for the employees.” “We ofer CSA options 48 weeks of the year,” Donsky says. “The weeks that are missing are the time we spend transitioning in to ALLERGY, page 2 CSA, page 2 FILE PHOTO 190 GOOD DRIVE • LANCASTER • 717.208.7070 WWW.BLOSSOMMEDSPA.NET All of your skin and body needs in one place! Now offering Body Sculpting! Eliminate inches, smooth cellulite and tighten skin.
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WEDNESDAY, APR IL 26 , 2017 | LANCASTER , PA
Health & WellnessSpecial Advertising Supplement
Nothing to SNEEZE at
With allergy season in full swing, here are some tips on how to find relief
CATHY MOLITORISLNP CUSTOM CONTENT CONTRIBUTOR
lowers aren’t the only thing springing up this season. Allergies are in full bloom, too.
“We are right in the middle of tree pollen al-lergy season,” says Dr. Laura Fisher, of Lancast-er Family Allergy. “It’s really bad right now.”
Fisher says there are ways to distinguish aller-gies from a cold, including taking into account the time of year.
“If it keeps happening to you, that you feel the symptoms year after year at the same time each year, it’s most likely allergies,” she says.
Allergies also have diferent symptoms than colds, including itchy eyes, which can be mis-taken for something else.
“Kids are being sent home from school with pink eye, but it’s really allergy eyes,” Fisher says.
Itching is a sign you’re sufering from aller-gies, she says. And, you won’t have a fever or body aches with allergies, but you might have those with a cold.
Treatment optionsMany allergy symptoms can be treated with
over-the-counter medication. Fisher recom-mends avoiding diphenhydramine like Benad-ryl, which tends to only provide short-term re-lief and can have a sedative efect.
“For some kids, Benadryl can actually make them hyper,” she says.
Instead, she suggests any of three medica-
tions: Zyrtec, Claritin or Allegra.“These work well to tackle itching and sneez-
ing,” she says.Over-the-counter nose sprays can also be ef-
fective, although Fisher cautions against Afrin for long-term use.
“It’s like cocaine for the nose,” she says. “Your nose gets addicted and actually swells up from use and you need more to settle it down.”
Fisher says that nose sprays including Flonase, Nasacort or Rhinocort can be efective, and some are safe for children as young as 2.
Eye drops can provide relief, but Fisher says to avoid Visine, which can also cause rebound symptoms like Afrin can.
She suggests Zaditor eye drops for an over-the-counter option.
If you’ve tried over-the-counter medication and haven’t found relief, it’s probably time to see your family doctor, allergist or pulmonolo-gist, Fisher says.
“There are tons of prescription options that can provide relief,” she explains.
Anyone experiencing asthma symptoms, shortness of breath or prolonged coughing should also see a doctor.
Sometimes, however, medication isn’t enough.
“I sort of have a two-meds rule,” Fisher says. “If you’re on more than two medications and you need them to get through allergy season, it
HEADING OUTDOORS?Fisher says it’s not necessary to avoid the outdoors altogether if you sufer from allergies, but there are precautions you can take.
“If you’re outside and the wind is blowing around, change your clothes when you come inside and rinse of to get the pollen of you,” she recommends.
If your pet is outside with you, wipe them down with a wet cloth to remove pollen once inside.
And, keep your windows closed.
“I know it’s hard when we’re having beautiful weather, but you want to close your windows and use your air conditioning,” she says. “It’s the best option for anyone who has allergies.”
THINKSTOCK
Farm to desk: CSAs help businesses promote good healthCATHY MOLITORISLNP CUSTOM CONTENT CONTRIBUTOR
Three letters can deliver home-grown goodness right to your workplace. A CSA, or community supported agriculture program, provides fresh fruits, vegetables and other farm products through a subscription service.
And, it’s a perk being ofered to businesses throughout Lancaster County and beyond through local farms.
“Working with local companies and integrating a CSA program into their culture is something that we have been doing for over
10 years,” says Elizabeth Donsky, CSA manager for Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative. “This model beneits the workplace, the em-ployee, the co-op and ultimately, the local farmers. It’s a win-win for everyone.”
Lancaster Farm Fresh Coopera-tive, which is a nonproit organic farmer’s cooperative of more than 100 family farmers, works with businesses ranging from schools and universities to technology and manufacturing irms and trucking companies.
The Collegeville location of Pizer Inc. has been working with
Lancaster Farm Fresh to provide CSAs for employees since 2016, says Betty Clarke, senior manager of architecture and technology.
“Our employees have enjoyed the availability of this service at our site,” she says, noting that about 65 employees participate in the program. “The shares are delivered from Lancaster Farm Fresh every week and a pickup lo-cation is setup for the employees.”
“We ofer CSA options 48 weeks of the year,” Donsky says. “The weeks that are missing are the time we spend transitioning in to
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may be time to consider allergy shots.”
Fisher likens allergy shots to having braces.
“You come in every week for an adjust-ment,” she says. “The shots ix the problem rather than masking the symptoms.”
Like wearing braces, allergy shots are a long-term solution.
“Over time, your teeth get ixed by the braces, just like over time, your allergies get better with the shots,” she says, noting that the process can take years.
Pinpoint the cause
While tree pollen is particularly trouble-some right now, we are about to enter grass pollen allergy season, Fisher says, and aller-gens like molds can be present year-round. Additional common allergies include rag-
weed and a variety of animals, including cats, dogs and rabbits.
To pinpoint the exact cause of allergies, doc-tors can perform tests.
“There are blood tests that can be done, but they are expensive and not always accurate,” Fisher says.
She recommends skin tests, where the patient is lightly scratched on his arms or back with the allergen and a reac-tion is monitored.
Allergies can happen at any age, she says, al-though it usually takes a few pollen seasons to develop them.
“We try to catch them early with kids if we can,” she says. “We usually start treating patients in elemen-tary school, but we do have patients who are younger, and we also see adults who are ex-periencing new aller-gies.”
Allergy: CopingContinued from 1 a new season as one sea-
son comes to a close.”Share options through
Lancaster Farm Fresh Co-op vary, she says, and include a certiied organ-ic produce share.
“For this upcoming summer season, we are ofering three sizes of the produce share, an egg share, a fruit share, an herbal medicine share, a meat share, a chicken share and more,” she says.
Prices range from $60 to $910.
Although customizable shares are not available through Lancaster Farm Fresh due to the number of farms involved, there are options.
“We do ofer a swap box where you can swap out an item you may not like for one that you do,” Donsky says.
Eagle Road Produce in Quarryville ofers CSAs to numerous businesses in Lancaster County, says the Amish owner who asked that his name not be used.
“We ofer fresh, or-ganic food right from the farm,” he says. “Our sea-son runs May 1 through
Continued from 1
the week of Thanksgiv-ing.”
Bi-weekly and weekly shares are available for businesses, with eight to 10 items per box.
“We feature whatever is in season at the time,” he says.
This is the third year that Prescott’s Patch in Bainbridge has been of-fering CSA services to businesses, says owner Steve Prescott, although the farm has been oper-ating CSAs for the gen-eral public for 16 years.
“We ofer a summer share — May through October — with both full- and half-share options, and a fall share — Octo-ber through December — with only full shares available,” he says.
Prices range from $600 for summer full shares to $330 for fall full shares.
Although Prescott’s Patch does not ofer a la carte options for customers to choose their share’s contents, Prescott says customers will receive a variety.
“We focus on growing the more popular veggies and berries, and shares include what’s in season each week,” he says.
Businesses who pro-vide CSAs to their em-ployees are not only
supporting small, fami-ly-owned local farmers and keeping farmers on their own land, he says, but they are also provid-ing a service to their em-ployees as well.
“Ofering their em-ployees convenient access to organically-grown, incredibly fresh, nutrient-dense produce is the primary beneit,” he says.
It can have health ben-eits for the community at large as well.
Along with ofering ac-cess to CSAs for employ-ees, Pizer also works with two community organizations to donate any produce that em-ployees don’t or can’t use.
“Sometimes partici-pating employees may be on vacation or just want to donate the items, so we gather the extra items and place them in a donation box and de-liver them to the organi-zations,” Clarke says.
Prescott suggests that businesses interested in setting up a CSA account consider if the partici-pating farm is organic.
“Although we grow all of our produce using organic methods, some CSA farms do not,” he says. “It’s important that a business considering
ofering CSA shares to their employees ask the farmer about their grow-ing methods to make sure they are in line with the values of the busi-ness and employees.”
Donsky says partici-pating in a CSA program ofer employees great food and convenience.
“Ofering a program like this is super conve-nient,” she says. “Em-ployees are able to pick up their certiied organic nutrient-dense veggies right at their workplace, essentially bring a road-side stand right to them. What makes it fun is that employees can trade items with other cowork-ers, split a share if they are just starting out, etc.”
Some workplaces ofer payroll deductions for their staf, she says, and some workplace well-ness programs even cov-er a portion of the CSA costs for employees.
Signing up for a CSA service is easy for busi-nesses to do, she says, and just requires con-tacting the participating farm to get started.
“Ideally, the long-term goal would be to provide easy access to organic goods,” she says, “and the employees will in turn be healthier and happier.”
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