Name: Doctors Debunk 8 Myths About Seasonal Allergies | Debunked
Uploaded: 2022-08-19T16:47:33.000Z
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"You can outgrow your seasonal allergies."

that you can outgrow your seasonal allergies.

I am a board-certified adult and pediatric

And today we'll be debunking myths about allergies.

Especially now, with people moving to different locations.

can increase your risk for developing allergies.

Right. So it's any new exposure, essentially,

with cats and dogs while they were children,

and then they decide to get a cat or a dog as an adult,

And so your immune system is constantly changing,

and so you can develop an allergy at any time.

Like, if you have pollen allergy in the spring,

I usually say have the patient start premedicating

with antihistamine, nasal spray, or eyedrops

I usually recommend as soon as they start seeing

even a little bit of the pollen that they're allergic to.

Especially severe seasonal-allergy sufferers,

we have them take them even two weeks in advance,

The timing sometime can change from year to year,

Gupta: Tree allergies are mostly a springtime allergen,

So for people who have tree, grass, and weed,

normally it would've been maybe from, like,

April until September that they might have had symptoms.

But now we're seeing even as early as February, actually.

kind of ending as late as October, November.

when you take your medication, such as a combination

together every day, it achieve a better efficacy

than taking it sporadically only when you have symptoms.

are not the main contributor to seasonal-allergy symptoms.

In order for pollen to cause allergic symptoms,

and they need to be dry to be carried by wind.

Gupta: So the pollen in flowers is actually large,

which means that it doesn't get into our eyes and nose.

However, for tree pollen, weed pollen, and grass pollen,

and because it travels in the air more easily,

And because it travels at least around 50 miles,

that means it might not be a tree in your backyard,

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