Allergies acting up already? Mild winter to blame for early pollen release in southern Ontario

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If you feel your allergies acting up early, it’s not just in your head. A warm winter has trees releasing pollen earlier this year, and one researcher says climate change could be extending allergy season.

If you feel your allergies acting up early, it's not just in your head.

"I've been noticing that we've been getting blooms," he said, noting that for him, "freshly blooming plants and an uptick in allergies" tend to go together. Stephen Spong, who lives in London, Ont., holds his allergy medications. He says in recent years, as spring comes earlier, he's had to use them for longer stretches to keep his allergies at bay.

"It's astounding how much pollen is already circulating in the environment," she said. "My allergist colleagues and I are exclaiming to each other that we've never seen pollen this early before."

 

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