How to get ahead of spring allergy season
With temperatures getting warmer, allergy season gets worse, leaving people battling with symptoms for longer. But taking an everyday allergy medication before the season starts can help you with the battle.
'Those medications work very well to prevent the allergies from flaring up,' said Dr. Joseph Allen, Premier Health regional medical director. 'And once they flare up, they're not as effective. So if you're able to take it early and before things start, it works out really well.'
If daily medications don't alleviate allergy symptoms, a trip to the doctor's office may be in order, where they can prescribe stronger drugs to help with inflammation. 'There are things we can use to treat, we up the ante a little bit and use a little stronger, typically a steroid and many, many folks are familiar with those,' said Allen. 'We use those quite a bit whether it is Prednisone or Medrol or some other steroid that we may use, and that may be a pill or a shot or something else.'
Allen says if these solutions don't work for you, don't be afraid to go back and try something else.
'Don't be miserable for too long,' he said. The Miami Valley is not a stranger to storms over the past month. While those storms will give you short term relief by knocking pollen to the ground, when the ground dries out, that pollen is thrown into the air.'As the wind blows through, it stirs up all that dust and pollen, and all the other things that cause allergies,' said Allen. 'So on those rainy, windy days, the rain knocks it down a little bit, but that wind picks it all back up as soon as it stops raining, and it can be pretty miserable for folks.'If you want to know what you are specifically allergic to, you can contact your doctor, and get a skin prick test done.
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