Attention allergy sufferers: It's time to stock up on boxes of tissues. Ragweed pollen levels in New Jersey are supposed to be nasty the next couple months.
Two Jersey Shore Allergists with Hackensack Meridian Health, Dr. Bruce Decotiis and Dr. Chirag Patel, are encouraging you to get vaccinated if you haven't already and they have reasons, evidence, ways of calming your fears and concerns.
We've hit the point of the year where summer is starting wind down and eventually transition into fall which means leaves falling, weather getting cool and allergies flaring up all over again.
It's a tricky spring season for anyone who typically struggles with allergies (which grass and trees are high right now) and those with asthma following a warm winter and a Covid-19 spring to this point.
It's been a rough pollen season for allergy sufferers but if your symptoms go beyond that and have been for years, there's a solution to your problems and it involves a balloon.
By now you've probably seen the video out of Cumberland County of a massive amount of pollen bursting from a tree. It's just one of the signs of a what's been a very impactful allergy season.
With the nicer weather comes evil pollen! It's everywhere, all over the car, on the benches at the park, and in the air. Just when you want to be outside!
Clearly we don't need the Weather Channel to tell us the pollen count is high...