Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Craig Maltby, Editor
The spring pollen is here. Big hairy deal.
Well, I’ve started witnessing the onset of my friends and relatives sneezing up a storm, slamming the antihistamines and turning into the 
suffering, sniffling allergy zombies.
Me, I’m as far from taking a loratadine pill as I’ve ever been. And, as I did last fall, I’ve looked up the pollen count for my area of the country to see what it is right now. As the chart below shows, it’s HIGH – consistently above 10. In fact 3 weeks ago, it was sky high; way north of 11, almost 12. Click the chart to go to the Web source where I pulled this from.
By the way, what do those pollen count numbers signify? According to Pollen.com, where I got this chart, any number ”represents the concentration of all the pollen (or of one particular type, like ragweed) in the air in a certain area at a specific time. It is expressed in grains of pollen per cubic meter over a 24 hour period.”
But for me, life is a bowl of….congestion-free, wheeze-free bliss. And it’s not like I’ve been isolated in an air-conditioned, hermetically sealed room for the last two months. I’ve been out in the fields and the forests playing massive disc golf, golf-club golf, and even slogging around dairy farms. Sometimes I blow my nose just out of past habit or guilt, as nothing really comes out. Immune balance is a beautiful thing.
