Unusual weather makes it difficult to predict allergy season

The unprecedented changes that have been taking place in the weather conditions around the world has made it difficult for health care experts to predict when the allergy season would arrive.
This winter was remarkably slow to come almost through out the U.S. The winter season is now in full bloom but it has never been delayed to the extent that it was this year. The experts are uncertain as to what affects the weather changes will have on allergy sufferers.

The allergy season is always bound to come. With it the season brings coughing , wheezing, sneezing, itchy eyes, headaches and runny noses for a great many people. 

There is not one single season that can be termed as an allergy season. In fact allergies pick up in several seasons. The summer and winter peaks are usually the seasons that allergy sufferers suffer the most. Mold is a one of the potential causes of allergies that is there pretty much the whole year round. 

The role of the weather is what is making the allergy season extremely difficult to predict. Mike Tringale who works with the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America says “It’s a hard call to make, it’s not just pollination, but what the wind and the rains and the other weather patterns do to that pollen; whether it washes it away or blows it 500 miles to the next town or city is a very difficult thing to project.”

This winter hospitals have received an unusually large number of patients complaining of hay fever in the winter season. “There were people complaining this winter of itchy, watery eyes, which is something you don’t see until April or May,” said the hospital officials. 

These complaints were reduced as the freeze kicked up the States. The out break of the cold season could actually delay the allergy season or give it a kick start. This depends on how close the trees are to releasing their pollen. Elm and cedar pollen count has increased due to the unseasonably warm temperatures experienced this winter. 

All the doctors can say to the patients is to make use of preventive allergy medications ahead of the allergy season. The problem is that since the allergy season cannot be predicted patient’s having no idea when to get started with their preventive medication.