Is it true that locally produced honey, can help to combat hay fever symptoms?
This has a lot to do with how the auto-immune system works (and sometimes misfires). One of the key functions of the immune system is to identify potentially threatening microbes and neutralize them before they cause disease. The system has to learn each microbe, and it uses the microbe’s chemical signature to identify it. However the immune system doesn’t seem to be able to tell the difference between a microbe and the chemical signatures of other proteins. So sometimes it “learns” that a non-threatening protein such as cedar pollen is a threat. One good thing is that the immune system can “unlearn” allergens. Regular exposure to very small amounts of an allergen can “teach” the immune system that a particular allergen is not a threat. This is where local honey and allergy shots come in. Allergy shots are usually tailored to the the individual’s allergens. Local honey contains pollens from the local flora and pollen from local flora are quite likely to be a problem for people sufferin
