First-time allergy sufferers: What you need to know By Ashley Welch
May 22, 2015 / 2:40 PM / CBS News
Sonia Jauhar lived most of her life free of seasonal allergies. But a couple of years ago, after moving to a suburban area of Long Island from New York City, the telltale symptoms began. My eyes felt itchy and heavy like they were stuffed with cotton, she told CBS News. I felt sleepy and had a sinus headache, too.
But at age 44, Jauhar was baffled by her new-found suffering. I couldn t understand how I was getting these symptoms for the first time in my 40 s, she said.
they say you are what you eat, but what if your food doesn t react well to your daily medications? here to break down some of the most dangerous food and drug combos is dr. debbie, joining us this morning. nice to see you. these are kind of shocking. i m going to start with dairy and what you shouldn t be taking with it. yeah, exactly. so we think if we swallow pills they ll take effect right away, but we need acid in our stomachs. milk and dairy can cause a reaction. you get less of the antibiotics than you think you are. when most people think you should have yogurt exactly. no dairy with antibiotics. with certain ones. great. orange juice? you can have the opposite problem where you have too much acid. for people taking allergy medication, especially now with allergy season, they can neutralize your allergy medications.
companies to have specific guidelines for driving tests and a broader focus to any drug that causes drowsiness, such as allergy medications as well. doctors say part of the problem is people ignoring the driving warnings on drugs labels. brian: cause they re overwarning us! they say everything can happen. gretchen: yeah. but if you take a sleeping pill at night, you probably think it s okay to drive in the morning. peter: if you take it at 3 in the middle of the night and drive at 6, it s a problem. gretchen: forget csi. call it cat scene investigators. a cat s dna helping put this man, david hilder behind bars for the rest of his life. it s the first time cat dna has been used in a criminal case in the united kingdom. they used a new british feline database to match a hair they found on a dismembered body to hidler s cat. he was convicted of manslaughter. the cat is still a free feline. brian: he needs a comb. gretchen: new mom kim kardashian spotted for the first time si
people s assemblies going on. you can see it and possibly hear it over my shoulder, where people make speeches, but because they don t use a mic system here, they don t have permits for that, so instead, they shout it from person to person to person so the entire crowd can hear what the message is, trying to rally support for their cause. as you say, as we pan the crowd here, you can see that there are a lot of young activists here, certainly, but already also others here from different walks of life. last hour, we introduced you to a grandmother who came here all the way from detroit. all kinds of people represented. they re also getting visits from celebrities. some who are here to show support, some who stopped by, not necessarily looking for the spotlight, but just to hear what s going on. in the middle of this week, on the biggest day we saw of all the crowds we had, that was the day we had the big rally. we ran into documentary filmmaker, michael moore, who s been here
also, take a look at this. it is the cheapest computer tablet in the world. and before you even ask no, you cannot buy it here in the u.s. that story ahead as well. let s start with the fight over the president s jobs bill. the senate is expected to vote on the plan in a matter of days. the measure could cost an estimated $447 billion. the president said, hey, it is paid for. $453 billion, he said, would come from his proposed tax on millionaires. the bill calls for new and extended tax cuts along with additional spending on roads, bridges, infrastructure projects, job training and help for those with housing problems. republicans, as you might imagine, don t like the president s plan. that s not stopping the president, however, from pushing ahead, especially with the tax on millionaires which republicans call class warfare. some see this as class warfare. i see it as a simple choice. we can either keep taxes exactly as they are for millionaires and billionaires or we c