For allergy sufferers, spring is nothing to sneeze at.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: April 14, 1995| Author: Gathright, Alan | Copyright information

Allergy sufferers don't need a pollen count to tell them what's blowing in the wind. Watery eyes and itchy, runny noses tell us that we're in for a monster allergy season.

The double whammy of heavy rains and warm spring weather has trees and grasses spewing double the normal pollen production, according to Dr. Arthur Biedermann, a San Jose, Calif., allergist with Allergy and Asthma Associates of Santa Clara Valley.

Even people with borderline allergies, who normall...

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