Its not your imagination, allergy season is extra bad this year. Heres why

Ali Rogin:

And Dr. Fineman, what sort of symptoms are you seeing these days in your patients? And are they worse than what you've seen before?

Dr. Stanley Fineman, Editor in Chief, Allergy Watch: Yeah, so the typical symptoms you see in a pollen allergy patient includes nasal congestion, itchy nose, sneezing, itchy eyes, and we seen it start earlier this year, as well, because of the higher, higher pollen counts. Patients are now having more symptoms. So they might have been able to tolerate it in the past. But because it's become earlier, and it's lasting longer, there's a phenomena that's called the priming effect, where somebody may have some symptoms early in the season. And then when it comes, the pollen raises again, they get even stronger symptoms. So they're even worse symptoms. So we're seeing a number of patients because of that.

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