If you have asthma or allergies you don’t have to limit your yard decorating to stones and concrete! There are many plants you can use to design your home garden including flowers, shrubs, trees and more, that won’t contribute to your outdoor allergy symptoms. (See some pictures of a few common allergenic plants.)

However, keep in mind that, even if your garden is “allergy free,” many of the pollens that affect you can travel to your yard from other gardens in the neighborhood or even from as far away as the next state. But there are intelligent and create ways to make sure you minimize the allergens growing right in your own back yard.

Blowin’ in the Wind

Many plants “mate” by releasing billions of pollen grains into the wind during the spring, summer and fall months, including many grasses, trees, and bushes. These are the types of plants you want to avoid in your garden. Instead, you should consider plants that rely on insects for cross-pollination, which are known to have pollen grains that are much heavier and don’t travel through the air quite as easily.

Among these types of plants are several bright colored flowers, fruit trees and shrubs. Ask any nursery expert or a local horticulturalist to help you identify these types of plants and make a list of those you’d like to see in your garden plan.

Garden Foes

• Grasses - Bermuda, Fescue, Johnson, June, Orchard, Perennial Rye, Redtop, Salt Grass, Sweet Vernal, Timothy.
• Shrubs - Cypress, Juniper.
• Trees - Alder, Ash, Aspen, Beech, Birch, Box Elder, Cedar, Cottonwood, Elm, Hickory, Maple, Mulberry, Oak, Olive, Palm, Pecan, Pine, Poplar, Sycamore, Walnut, Willow.
• Weeds - Poison Ivy/Oak/Sumac, Cocklebur, Pigweed, Ragweed, Russian Thistle, Sagebrush.

Garden Friends

• Flowering Plants - Begonia, Cactus, Chenille, Clematis, Columbine, Crocus, Daffodil, Daisy, Dusty Miller, Geranium, Hosta, Impatiens, Iris, Lily, Pansy, Periwinkle, Petunia, Phlox, Fose, Salvia, Snapdragon, Sunflower, Thrift, Tulip, Verbena, zinnia.
• Grasses - St. Augustine
• Shrubs - Azalea, Boxwood, English Yew, Hibiscus, Hydrangea, Viburnum.
• Trees - Apple, Cherry, Chinese Fan Palm, Fern Pine, Dogwood, English Holly, Hardy Rubber Tree, Magnolia, Pear, Plum, Red Maple.

Wheat Allergy 

If you are one of the many people who are afflicted with wheat allergy, then it is important for you to take the needed steps to avoid wheat in your diet. Another thing to avoid would be gluten. This can be quite a difficult thing to do because wheat and gluten are included in the ingredients of so many food items all over the market. Soups, sauces, and even ice cream, these and many more food items include wheat and gluten. What's more, when you make drastic dietary changes, there just might be more health problems arising because of the sudden existence of these modifications. Thus, there really is a need to get as much wheat allergy help as possible. 

One very important thing people should know when it comes to eliminating wheat from diet is the fact that you will be missing out on necessary nutrients. Wheat is very much needed for you to have a balanced diet, and with wheat out of the picture, you just might have problems involving weight loss and malnutrition. There may even be cases more severe in nature where the major organs of your body would not function normally anymore because of the absence of wheat in your diet. Thus, there has to be certain measures taken so that this risk would be properly compensated. What's more, the guidance and supervision of a licensed physician or nutritionist should also be in tow. This is very much needed just in case health issues arise so that proper treatment can then be administered. 

It is actually during the first stages upon detection of the wheat allergy problem that the medical expertise of physicians and nutritionists are very much needed. At this point in time, there is a need for the patient to be placed on an elimination diet that has so many restrictions. This just may be the time when the patient's food intake would be dropped to the very, very basic of all levels. This is needed in order for the body to properly cleanse itself and rid itself of wheat and of its by-products. A few weeks into the elimination diet, the patient can then start taking other food items, upon the recommendation of the physician, of course. There is also a need to maintain a food diary, so as to assess which food items can cause any negative reaction in the body system. 

During the whole process of the elimination diet, the patient might suffer significant weight loss. This is precisely why it is important to have a physician monitor each step of the diet. This way, the physician can provide wheat allergy help as it is needed right away.