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Article: Bless you! Yep, it's allergy season again.|Achoo!
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- Courier News (Elgin, IL)
- Article date:
- March 12, 2007
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Every year, someone predicts this will be the worst allergy season - ever.
Allergist Dr. Greg Sharon has no idea what this year's season will bring.
"I had a crystal ball but I dropped it and it broke," the Bloomingdale physician said.
The truth is no one, not doctors nor scientists, can really predict how bad allergy season will be. What Sharon is sure of is many more people will experience the sneezing, watery eyes, stuffy nose and general run-down feeling that allergies create.
Sharon is one of 60 allergists in the area. He said the field had been thought to be a dying speciality because everyone thought allergy drugs would be so good that such doctors would not be needed, but the ...