Article: COMING ACHOO! ALLERGIES IN REGION WILL PROBABLY WORSEN DUE TO INCREASE IN POLLEN.(News)

Byline: DANA BARTHOLOMEW

Staff Writer

STUDIO CITY - Six-year-old Samuel Pacheco had hoped to run a 100-meter race when sniffles stopped him dead in his tracks.

The culprit: a nose full of pollen and a bad case of allergies.

"The pines are pollinating, big time," said his father, Oscar Pacheco, 51, of Granada Hills, during a Wednesday visit to an allergist. "The last couple of weeks, my son has had a runny nose, coughing. He's irritated a lot."

With Los Angeles in its driest weather season ever, allergists say a record lack of rain has heightened spring pollen -- and hay fever -- across the region.

That's because the dry spell has simply failed to wash ...

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