Ah, late summer. The season of tomatoes, sweet corn, and ragweed pollen. An article in Science News discusses the genetic basis of allergies. I definitely have the gene.
Saturday was terrible. I stayed inside, with the windows closed and a new pollen-proof filter on the AC. Didn’t help. The house is apparently not air-tight. Medications didn’t help much either.
Then finally it rained. The rain washed the pollen out of the air.
God bless the rain.
CathyAJ | 15-Sep-08 at 3:31 pm | Permalink
Let’s hope this discover leads to more effective allergy medicine! Wouldn’t it be cool if they developed medicines for specific allergens? I volunteer to test one that would make me stop reacting to the $%^&* ragweed.