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🌷 It's spring! Instead of the elliptical indoors, I've been opting for a longer outdoor walk while calling someone or listening to an audiobook, possible by the later sunset time and warmer weather. I enjoy watching the woods change with the seasons. I missed some of the daffodils, but I did see Virginia bluebells and the honeysuckle smells great. At home, I'm leaving the windows open: enjoying the fresh air and the sounds of the birds (coming quite close up to my window!). Sometimes there are less pleasant noises (freight train squeaking as it slows down), but they are not continuous. Closing the balcony door again does a good job of keeping the sound out. With the pollen count is picking up again, I use the Air Matters app (iOS and Android) to monitor the outdoor air quality and pollen. I take my off-brand zyrtec and my azelastine nasal allergy spray (tastes terrible if it goes down my throat instead of up my nose). I've been using my airgradient to monitor indoor conditions, including increased humidity and improved CO2: as long as there's not a fire going on or if I'm cooking, but it's not very windy outside.

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Wow I have asthma and take meds and have an air cleaner and I still have attacks. It's horrible not to be able to breathe. It's amazing the utter lack of compassion he has.

My doctor told me that with #asthma/ #allergies everything builds on the other stuff and makes the threshold lower to have attacks. So this stuff matters.

He stopped $900,000 worth of a #grant

Daily Hampshire Gazette: #Trump slashes funds for #asthma sufferers in western #Massachusetts

The Trump administration has eliminated roughly $1 million in funding from the Environmental Protection Agency #EPA to the state Department of #PublicHealth intended specifically to address asthma in western Massachusetts, according to Gov. #MauraHealey’s office. This termination comes shortly after the #AmericanLungAssociation reported a decline in air quality across the state and region.

The money was meant to provide in-home air quality remediations to combat environmental factors, such as improvements to ventilation and the removal of mold throughout Chicopee, Holyoke and Springfield. The state was promised about $1 million over three years for these remediations, but the withheld funding comprises nearly $900,000 of that amount. The DPH so far has spent approximately $100,000 of the money to address asthma in communities disproportionately at risk.
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Daily Hampshire Gazette · White House slashes funds for asthma sufferers in western Mass.By ALEXA LEWIS
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17/. I have #asthma and #allergies to grass and tree pollen and many furry animals. My allergies mean that I have #postnasaldrip and sniff, snort and throat clear all the time, all year round. It’s not my sexiest feature and is one reason why I prefer remote working to being in an office. It makes social situations really awkward. I often have to explain my problems to people who get understandably pissed off with the noses I make. I went to an #ENT and they discharged me as untreatable.

After eating pierogi from a new-to-me vendor at the farmers market, I had an itchy scalp — usually the first sign I'm having an allergic reaction to something I ate.

I took a couple Benadryl and the itchiness went away and I had no further symptoms — no need to pull out my EpiPen.

But this is actually good news! I've had an anaphylactic reaction to something I ate only three times, and in all three cases it was after a restaurant meal and impossible to find the cause.

But now I can ask the vendors next week what went into their food, and maybe identify what I'm allergic to.

Wow. It's taken me a day and a half to realize that the reason my nose won't stop itching and running and my eyes are constantly burning is because I'm allergic to dogs and the secondhand clothes I got all likely still have dog hair on them.

Have your allergies worsened in recent years? Seasonal allergy sufferers are being hit with more pollen over a longer season due to rising temperatures, but global warming is also triggering alarming extreme allergy events, say experts. A massive case of "thunderstorm asthma" nine years ago in Melbourne would support this. Read more from @BBCNews:

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Pollen floats in the air around the dangling catkins of a birch tree (Credit: Getty Images)
BBC · Climate change is supercharging pollen and making allergies worseBy Amanda Ruggeri