How is your pollen season going?

[kdonnel]

Record breaking day today.

14801

It’s nasty out there. I guess the only good news is the bulk of the pollen is pine and very few people are allergic to pine pollen because it is too large.

 

[china mom]

Pollen usually has me laid out this time of year but so far (knock on wood), I am doing fine

 

[MsChristy12]

It's awful today I've been sneezing and blowing my nose since I woke up. Nose just won't stop dripping! Ughhh!! I even did the nasal rinse...didn't help

 

[RangerPooh]

The yellow stuff is everywhere. Washed my jeep yesterday to get some of it off. Meanwhile I’m bouncing between stuffed up/congested to dripping nose, with a swollen throat and sneezing. I never experienced allergies before moving to the south.

 

[TippyThomas]

Finally got and will continue to get some rain today and tomorrow. That seems to be helping a great deal where I am.

 

[petrymom]

Ice storm here today. I am hoping for some allergies! brrrrrrrr!

 

[kdonnel]

Getting a little rain today. I expect a much lower number tomorrow.



Maybe it will be under 1500?

 

[Skippy918]

The oak pollen is really bad. My child is sneezing and has a runny nose even after taking allergy meds for the past 2 weeks.

 

[Cadiewampus]

Getting a little rain today. I expect a much lower number tomorrow.

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Maybe it will be under 1500?

We are in Acworth ad terrible here last couple days. Actually looked like a snow storm on our ring camera last night.

 

[kdonnel]

We are in Acworth ad terrible here last couple days. Actually looked like a snow storm on our ring camera last night.

The little amount of rain we got yesterday didn't have as large an impact as I thought.

Today's count is 6024.

Never been rooting this hard for a thunderstorm this afternoon.

 

[goofyernmost]

It has been awful around here. It was getting so bad that I was having a hard time seeing out my rear and side windows. I almost stopped and spent 10 bucks to run it through the carwash but then I knew that if it didn't ran it would just cover over again. My car was literally a different color. Usually it makes my red car orange but today it was almost pure greenish/yellow of the Pine pollen dust storm. The air outside looked like a Texas dust storm. That said, right now it is raining quite hard and I am hoping that my car will be free of that stuff by morning. I call it the land of the yellow atmosphere.

 

[hardcorestitch]

Not bad this year, although I have my neti pot and Claritin ready… they’re working to combat the pollen to great success.

 

[bcla]

Not bad this year, although I have my neti pot and Claritin ready… they’re working to combat the pollen to great success.

Claritin is largely ineffective at doses that don't cause drowsiness. This has been well documented for decades, including during clinical trials. It's supposedly effective (and safe to use) at maybe 4x the standard dose, but that will cause drowsiness, and "nonsedating" was a massive marketing tool.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/11/magazine/the-claritin-effect-prescription-for-profit.html​

When it was his turn to speak, Straus engaged in a little bureaucratic soft-shoe, complimenting the Schering team's presentations as ''a tough act to follow.'' Then he tried to demolish the heart of Schering's application. Straus didn't doubt that loratadine worked as an antihistamine, he said; he just doubted that it worked at the 10-milligram dose. In fact, at one point he claimed that ''10 milligrams is not very different than placebo clinically.'' The reason the dose was so low, he argued, is that evidence of sedation began to crop up at higher, more effective doses.​

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What he didn't say -- but what everyone understood -- is that using a higher, more effective dose of Claritin would affect how the drug was described on the label. The term ''nonsedating'' was considered a critical marketing point. A single adjective or phrase contained in the F.D.A.-approved label -- no more sedating than a sugar pill,'' for example -- can form the basis of claims made by company salesmen to doctors, the basis of words that throb in the bold type of advertisements, even the basis of lawsuits filed against competitors. Those seemingly eye-glazing, hairsplitting distinctions provide the foundation for multimillion-dollar marketing campaigns.​

Allegra and Xyrtec are far more effective at their standard doses. Xyrtec still causes drowsiness for many though. Allegra actually has two standard adult doses (60 mg for 12 hour and 180 mg for 24 hours). I can't take the 24 hour dose. I don't get sedated but I start feeling jittery. A pharmacist said I could just split a tablet and that should be fine even though it likely wouldn't match the 60 mg dose.

 

[bcla]

It goes crazy - especially a few days after it rains. Feed plants water and they'll take that opportunity to reproduce.

 

[mylilnikita]

No issues until Sunday when pollen struck.
If there was a way to harness the power of a sneeze lol.