Adopting a few easy strategies can help a person avoid severe allergies during the spring.
With temperatures warming up, flowers and trees are beginning to bloom. Unfortunately, spring’s arrival also means more pollen in the air, impacting the quality of life for those who suffer with seasonal allergies. If you struggle with the many common symptoms of seasonal allergies, including a runny nose and sneezing, there are a few tips you can follow to reduce the severity of your suffering.
Watch Pollen Counts and Plan Accordingly
Paying attention to the daily pollen forecast can help you plan for the day accordingly. While you likely can’t stay in your house indefinitely, you can skip heavy yard work on days when the pollen count is particularly high or when the wind is blowing hard. On these days, you should also keep your home’s windows closed to avoid inviting the pollen into your home.
Clean Surfaces and Bedding Regularly
Pollen that you bring in from outside can end up on any surface in your home, including your bedding. Wash your sheets regularly to ensure that you’re not constantly breathing in large amounts of pollen as you sleep. Be sure that your vacuum gets plenty of use during spring; your family members are constantly bringing in pollen and grass from the outside. Wearing a mask while you vacuum can help you avoid breathing in pollen.
Try Medicine
At your grocery store, you can find a wide variety of medication to help with allergies by reducing the severity of your symptoms. You can choose from a variety of different medication forms, including sprays and tablets. If over-the-counter drugs don’t help with your symptoms, you’ll need to talk to a doctor about prescription medications.
Change Clothes and Shoes
Each time you come inside, take your shoes off immediately and leave them by the door to prevent tracking pollen throughout the house. Changing into clothes you only wear indoors can also reduce the amount of pollen around you. Laundering clothes that you wear outside, especially for yard work, is a good way to eliminate pollen.
Exercise Wisely
Exercising outside on a day with a high pollen count will likely result in copious amounts of sniffling and sneezing. On high pollen days, exercise indoors at home or a gym. If you must exercise outside, try to exercise later in the day when the pollen counts have decreased.
Get Allergy Care From a Clinic
Seasonal allergies can wreck your sinuses and leave you feeling unwell. However, there are medications and strategies that you can use to reduce your symptoms. Integra Urgent Care offers allergy care. Visit us today in any of our urgent care centers near you so that we can help you get back to enjoying spring. We are open in Grand Prairie, Weatherford, and Las Colinas locations.