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Article: Up-and-down allergy season eases.(Health)(Grass pollen counts and doctor's office visits rose and fell this year with the valley's cleansing spring rains)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- July 11, 2005
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Byline: Joe Harwood The Register-Guard
This year's grass pollen season was like a roller coaster at a second-rate amusement park: most hay fever sufferers had ups and downs, but the ride wasn't all that intense.
"It was really an unusual season," said Jean Jensen, a research nurse with the Allergy & Asthma Research Group of Eugene, part of a private allergy clinic.
"Every time the grass (pollen count) would start to climb, we would get rain that would push it back down," Jensen said. "It certainly wasn't our worst grass pollen season."
The dreaded grass-pollen allergy season typically lasts about six weeks, between the bookend holidays ...