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Article: COMING ACHOO! ALLERGIES IN REGION WILL PROBABLY WORSEN DUE TO INCREASE IN POLLEN.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- April 5, 2007
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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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