(BPT) - If you think it's too early to prepare for fall allergy season, think again. Thanks to changing weather patterns, allergy season is starting earlier and lasting longer than ever before. For the 31.8% of adults and 27.2% of children in the U.S. who have been diagnosed with seasonal allergies, their symptoms may persist long after kids are back in school.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the American frost-free season — the period between the final 32°F reading of the year in the spring and the first 32°F reading in the fall — has increased by more than two weeks on average across the country. "The prolonged warm weather means that plants bloom earlier, stay around longer and produce more pollen, causing sneezing, coughing, itchy and watery eyes and runny noses and triggering asthma attacks and hay fever," says allergist James Tracy, DO, president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.
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