Spring has sprung and good weather has come with it: days are longer and we feel like spending more outside along with warm sunbeams that provide us with great energy and happiness.

Nevertheless, it is not a bed of roses, since plants start blooming and, although we can find lovely landscapes, not everyone gets along with it, due to allergies to a greater extent.

Most immediate effects we can find at the beginning of spring are: sneezes, eye stinging and mucus among others. Besides, pollen allergy is a problem that has its most critical point in this season, reaching to affect more than seven millions of people in Spain only, and each year it is suffered with greater intensity, partially due to temperatures risings and rainfalls decreasing.

For that, we wanted to expound some advices to fight the effects spring carries along, but the main rule to fight allergy is avoid exposures to allergens: opt for indoors, keep windows closed and even not drying clothes outdoors. However, pollen exposure is inevitable in many cases, but with small changes in our eating habits we will manage to improve that uncomfortable feeling. Some of these changes we could carry out to fight that problem are:

• Drinking a cup of tea: Tea (especially green tea) has natural antihistamines that help reduce allergy symptoms. The best way to fight sneezes with tea is having a warm cup in the morning as soon as we wake up.
• Eating foods with no spices: In those days when allergy seems to attack stronger, it is advisable to eat food that has no spices, since these reduce the antihistamine effect provoking great histamin discharges, which affect doubly in allergy times.
• Consuming food with a high Omega-3 rate: fatty acids have anti-inflammatory power, so consuming foods such as tuna and pink salmon, rich in this fatty acid, helps to ameliorate two of the most direct allergy effects: asthma and irritated skin.
• Eating foods rich in probiotics: Foods rich in probiotics help with maintaining strong our inmune system, so consuming these kinds of foods, such as natural yoghurts, will reduce allergy symptoms.
• Low-salt diet:Reducing salt consumption will help with ameliorating asthma symptoms, as well as lung working.
• Eating foods with natural antioxidant: Foods like onions, peppers, wild fruits and nuts or parsley become indispensable in allergy times since they contain quercitin, one of the main antioxidants, which are contained in fruits and vegetables. Antioxidants work as a natural antihistaminic.