Worst Allergy Season Ever

Turns out that those who think every allergy season is the worst one ever may actually be right, as explained in CNN.com's Why your allergies are bugging you.

The reason for worsening allergy seasons is two-fold: There's more pollen and it's sticking around for longer. As Estelle Levetin, Ph.D., chairwoman of the aerobiology committee for the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology puts it: ‘Pollen levels are increasing, pollen seasons are getting longer, and more people are developing allergies.’

This year's fall allergies are estimated to last up to 27 days longer than average in some parts of the country.

Here is a summary of the reasons behind these more potent and longer-lasting allergy seasons, which occur both in the spring and the fall:

  • Spring allergies now start sooner and fall allergies end later, thanks to global warming,’ says Jeffrey G. Demain, M.D., director of the Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Center of Alaska.
  • _Carbon-based fuels trap heat over the earth's surface, causing temperatures to rise. This heat prompts an early spring, and delays the first frost

One thought on “Worst Allergy Season Ever

  1. Cody October 14, 2015 / 12:18 pm

    Aloha from Hawaii, I live on Oahu and I don’t recommend linvig here if you have allergies. Because of the climate something is always in bloom. Then due to the rain & humidity mold is also a problem. In addition, depending on the winds, we may have vog (volcanic smog) coming from the Big Island of Hawaii. I don’t know what may be coming off the ocean when the waves are high. You can certainly see the salt mist in the air in the Winter on the North Shore. Within my first 2 weeks here I got very sick. I thought it was some kind of flu or bronchitis. It turned out to be my allergies. I’ve heard from other folks who came here & their allergies cleared up for a year or so then came back worse than ever. It’s much worse on the wet (windward) side of the islands although it’s prettiest there. I’ve read that local folks with life-threatening asthma were recommended to move to the dry (leeward) desert-side of the island. This helped a lot. Good Luck!

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