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Michigan seasonal allergies get worse, symptoms confused with COVID-19 - Detroit Free Press

Michigan seasonal allergies get worse, symptoms confused with COVID-19 - Detroit Free Press

May 18, 2022 1 min, 4 secs

Spring is in the air — and so are pollen and other tiny particles that  can make your eyes itch and nose run.

"It is a bad time for allergies," Kathleen Slonager, the executive director of the Michigan chapter of the nonprofit Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, said Wednesday.

"More people will begin to show allergy symptoms when they never had them in the past," she said?

Anecdotally, more people are talking about how their allergies are worse.".

Earlier this year, climate scientists at the University of Michigan looked at 15 different plant pollens in the United States and used computer simulations to calculate how much worse allergy season will likely get by the year 2100.

Kathleen Dass, an allergist, immunologist and medical director with the Michigan Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Center in Oak Park, said it was one of the worst allergy seasons she has ever seen?

More: Climate change to make pollen season nastier and start sooner.

As the world warms, the scientists found, allergy season will start weeks earlier and end many days later — and it'll be worse while it lasts, with pollen levels that could as much as triple in some places, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications.

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