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Spring is in the air. As we embrace this new time of year, we also escort in the challenges of seasonal allergies. Each and every year, more than 35 million Americans suffer from seasonal allergic rhinitis, also known as hay fever. Seasonal allergies are an effect to triggers released into the air during a certain time period, such as spring or fall. The Symptoms of seasonal allergies consist of sneezing, runny nose, itchy or watery eyes, itchy nose, coughing and post-nasal drip. Some patients report having only one or two symptoms; in some cases, it might be complicated to tell the difference between allergies and a cold because symptoms are similar. Airborne pollen is the most frequent cause and the biggest trigger of seasonal allergies. Pollen grains released from grass plants and promising trees can travel through the air for miles. An affected by reaction is triggered when pollen is inhaled through the nose or lands in the eye or on the skin. Specifically oak, elm, birch, ash, hic...

Dame Elizabeth Rosemont Taylor, debatably the last great female star of the Hollywood studio system, has died at the age of 79. The Oscar-winning star died in the early hours of the morning at Cedars-Sinai medical centre in Los Angeles, from congestive heart failure, according to her orator Sally Morrison. She said Taylor's children were at her side. Dame Elizabeth, who had been in sick health for a number of years, was taken to the hospital with heart failure six weeks ago. A spokeswoman for the hospital said: "She passed away at 1.28." Taylor's glowing screen presence, allied to a colorful private life, made her a mainstay of US popular culture for more than 50 years. She won her first best actress Oscar for playing the self-styled "slut of the world" in 1960s Butterfields 8. Her second came courtesy of a stimulating turn opposite then-husband Richard Burton in the 1966 drama who�s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Born in Hampstead, north London, Taylor relocated...

The nation's biggest organization of pediatricians is telling its members and parents that children riding in cars should stay in rear-facing child safety seats at least until their second birthday - and if possible even longer. This reverses advice many pediatricians gave parents for years that children's car seats should be turned just about shortly after their first birthday. The new policy from the American Academy of Pediatrics, published Monday in the Pediatrics medical journal, is bolstered by investigate that shows children under 2 are 75% less likely to die or be severely wounded in a crash if they are in rear-facing child restraints. Similarly important, the academy recommends that children remain in seats with five-point safety harnesses as long as possible and should change to booster seats that rely on adult seat belts only when they exceed the height and weight limits for the five-point harness. Five-point harnesses, which run across children's shoulders and h...

Rifca Stanescu, from the village of Investee, Romania, told how she gave birth to her daughter, Maria, while only at the of 13. Despite her mother's please to stay in school, Maria gave birth to son Ion at the age of 11. Rifca, now 25, told the Sun: 'I am happy to be a grandmother but I wished somewhat else for Maria - and something else for me. Ion is a good boy - and he is already engaged to a girl at aged 8. Boys are forever good to have - they don't have to suffer as much girls I think. Born in 1985, Rifca defied her family's wishes and ran away with jewellery merchant Ionel Stanescu when she was 11 and his husband was at 13. A year after they were married, Rifca fell conceived with Maria. She said: I wanted to marry him, so I decided, and of course after we had spent the night together then there was no way anyone could disconnect us. I had been promised to one more boy's family since I was two years old but I didn't want that. Britain's earlier younges...

Americans are sleepy -- so sleepy that weakness takes over in some of the most dangerous situations. About one in 20 survey participants reported they'd dozed off while driving at least once in a month. And more than one-third of those surveyed said they unconsciously fell asleep at least once in a day. The statistics come from two different reports from the Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System and were published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. An estimated 50 million to 70 million U.S. adults experience chronic sleep disorders, according to the report, and those nights of disturbances can lead to daytime nodding off. Those between the ages of 25 and 34 were more likely to fall asleep off while driving and men were more likely to fall asleep in the car than women. Most of us trust that there are a lot more fall asleep crashes than reported," said Dr. Allan Pack, director of the Center for Sleep at University of...