Although summer itself is not over, the summer relief for allergy sufferers seems to have ended.  This week, allergy levels have been on the rise, and this weekend, they are at a sky high level.  What does this mean??  Its time to go back on your allergy meds, and if you have asthma triggered by allergies, its likely time to start back on those meds as well.  Whatever it is that your family uses, whether its oral anti-histamines (Claritin, Zyrtec, Allegra, Benadryl), nasal steroids (Nasonex, Nasacort, Rhinocort, Flonase, Omnaris, Veramyst), nasal anti-histamines (Asteiln, Patanase), oral anti-leukotrienes (Singulair), steroid inhalers (Flovent, Pulmicort, Advair, QVar, Asmanex, Dulera), nebulizers, or others, its probably time to get back on those meds.

Pollen levels are useful to track in order to know when symptoms are coming and when they may be going.  It allows us to PREVENT symptoms in patiens we know will have them, rather than just TREAT them when they occur.  This is the key to starting meds early.  Pollen levels can be seen locally on several websites; one of the easiest is on pollen.com.