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...make his predictions, Schwoegler takes into account the forecasts for wind speed, morning humidity, temperature, the pollen counts from the previous year, and cloud cover...
According to Schwoegler, sunlight can stimulate trees to release more pollen, and winds 10 and 20 m.p.h. are the allergen's favorite conditions. Winds much stronger than 20 m.p.h. carry the pollen into the upper atmosphere, far away from the beleaguered lungs of sufferers...
According to Dr. Elliot Israel, an assistant professor of medicine at Boston's Beth-Israel Hospital allergy clinic, a common misconception is sufferers describing allergies as "rose fever." In fact, Israel says, this term is inaccurate because most of the common spring-time allergies are caused by pollen from grasses and trees not roses...
Blooming flowers can serve, however, as a rather colorful and ominous warning that their other friends in the vegetable kingdom are about to release their pollen on the public...
...antibody which recognizes pollen, as well as other common allergens, is a protein called IgE. People with allergies, a genetic trait, have elevated levels of this protein and therefore respond much more quickly and violently to the rather harmless pollen grain...