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Article: Here comes allergy season again
- Article from:
- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
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CopyrightCopyright Society for Advancement of Education Aug 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Allergy sufferers throughout the U.S. are or soon will be experiencing the itchy and watery eyes, nasal congestion, runny noses, headaches, drowsiness, sneezes, and over-all miserableness that accompany fall allergy season. In response, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Milwaukee, Wis., offers the following advice on allergy relief and reminds the public to take allergies seriously:
Ragweed, the pollen most responsible for hay fever in North America, is found in high concentrations throughout the Northeast and Midwest and can grow anywhere. Blooming from mid-August to October, each ragweed plant produces about 1,000,000,000 pollen grains per average season that can ...