What is blooming?

[orgdotnews]

What is blooming right now? For the past week and a half I've been snarfling and sneezing and coughing and I thought I had a cold, but it's pretty clearly turned into allergies at this point. Is there cedar around here? I'm apparently allergic to cedar. Not sure what else.

Comments

[windfaerie]

Grass pollen is going crazy. It's been really bad this year, everyone is complaining!

http://www.nasonex.com/nasx/application?namespace=pollenweather&a=2&event=currentinner&zip=97211&submit.x=0&submit.y=0

[bennomatic]

This. I heard that something like half the grass seed that's sold in the US is grown here. And my lawn is pretty untamed, too, I can actually see the pollen wafting in the wind.

[sistermaryeris]

I wonder sometimes if they rank allergens on what is "normal" because every summer I suffer like crazy, but extra-so this summer. There is a cedar or pine tree right outside our window and I'm SURE that is not helping.

I've found daily allergy medicine helps!

[ritzcrackerman]

I never used to have allergies until I moved here. You think it's bad in Portland, Eugene and down south is 10 x worse. I tend to itch and have a bad histamine reaction when the pollen goes crazy. I agree with the above comment, daily medication will do wonders.

[ellettra]

i'm dying too. my folks send me bootleg claratin from OK because it has real pseudofed in it and it works wonders. i didn't know i was allergic to cedar until i moved to eugene, allergy capital of the world. good luck with this; you are not snarfling/sneezin alone, that's for sure.

[bennomatic]

Didn't they take this off the market because it caused permanent loss of smell?