Spring is Coming

Spring is Coming
By Siera Millard

It’s said that April showers bring May flowers...but what does March bring? Usually it is filled with a copious storage of tissues for a nose that runs more than Usain Bolt, people who back away with looks of disgust from your sneezes as you try to tell them it is just allergies, and really just general misery. Anyone with allergies knows exactly what I am talking about. While the pollen count is on the rise, your bank account slowly depletes as you buy more and more allergy medicine.

Seasonal allergies, also called hay fever, are the bane of around three-million people’s existence. Characterized by congestion, redness, runny nose, sneezing and other intolerable symptoms, allergies make March the beginning of a few insufferable months. With spring just around the corner, there are a few things you can do to make this time just a tad easier.

1. Get a head start on your allergy medication because once that first wave of pollen hits, you do not want to be caught off-guard.
2. Buy all the tissues. Put a pack in your car, in your backpack, in your locker, everywhere! Stock up on those things like it’s the end of the world.
3. Use hand sanitizer! Please! Even if you are not sick, and it is just allergies as you claim, your germs could still get others sick.
4. Stay inside! The outdoors are overrated anyway. Want to go for a run or ride your bike? Instead, stay inside and catch up on some homework. Enrich your mind and read a book, or kill your brain cells and watch a bit of televisión.

So goodluck to all those with allergies this March, and may winter come early this year to rid you of your allergens!

Fun fact: “In 2011 Knoxville, Tennessee was named the ‘Allergy Capital’ of the USA by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, based on pollen amounts, allergy prevalence, medicines consumed and number of allergists per patient.” (Triangle, 2016).
Sources
Triangle, The. “Hanover's Student-Run Newspaper The Triangle.” The Triangle, 27 Sept. 2016,
blogs.hanover.edu/triangle/2016/09/27/did-you-know-fun-facts-about-allergies/.