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LOCAL/NATIONAL
Sunday, August 10, 2014
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Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News
Dr. Jeffrey Adelglass of Plano found the year’s first sign of ragweed pollen — a primary cause of early fall allergies — in a recent
pollen count, a few weeks earlier than usual.
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Allergies
early, but the varying tempera-
tures we’ve had can spur the rag-
weed to pollinate a little earlier,”
Adelglass said. “Pollination usu-
ally waits for the temperatures
to cool down a little bit. We’ve
had a few cooler days, and the
little bit of rain we had only
serves to water the ragweed.”
Actually, the weather seems
to have conspired against North
Texas allergy sufferers all year,
said Sugerman, who blames un-
usual weather for allergens that
arrived almost without breaks.
“There are basically two ma-
jor determinants of when a
plant pollinates: sunshine expo-
sure and climate change,” he
said. “And yes, we’ve had some
climatic aberrations over the
past eight months or so.
“We had the horrific ice
storm in December and freezing
temperatures in January that
could have contributed to put-
ting off spring pollen by a couple
of weeks.”
With a late start, pollen from
mountain cedar and Eastern red
cedar — the culprits for “cedar
fever” — stuck around until
mid-March, Sugerman said.
“The cedar ran right into the be-
ginning of oak pollen season —
there’s usually at least a week in
between — so people allergic to
both really suffered.”
Oak pollen lingered until
mid-April or so, when grass pol-
len took over.
“That usually lasts until there
is a run of hot temperatures and
no rain,” he said, ‘but we didn’t
get that until after the Fourth of
July, so grass pollen lasted to the
10th of July or so.”
After a very short break, ce-
dar elm began pollinating early,
and then ragweed followed, set-
ting the stage for hay fever sea-
son.
“In the fall pollen season,
people call it ‘hay fever’ because
they thought they were getting
sick from the hay,” Sugerman
said. “But there isn’t fever in the
allergic reactions, just misery.”
Ragweed’s season in the area
can last through the fall, until
the first frost. North Texas and
most of the U.S. are home to sev-
eral varieties — short, regular
and giant, which can grow to 15
feet tall, Adelglass said. And a
single ragweed plant can release
1 billion grains of pollen.
With an allergy season that
runs from mid-winter to late
fall, it’s little wonder that the
Asthma and Allergy Foundation
of America ranks Dallas the sev-
enth most challenging place to
live in the U.S. for allergy suffer-
ers.
Adelglass ticked off a few of
the reasons: a long growing sea-
son for annoying plants; rela-
tively flat terrain that allows
wind to spread pollen far and
wide; changeable weather; and
a growing population and grow-
ing pollution problems that
mean widespread suffering.
But there are things people
can do to deal with allergens.
For ragweed, Sugerman rec-
ommends an aggressive ap-
proach.
The season usually begins
around Labor Day, he said, so
people who are allergic should
start taking their medications
several days before that. He rec-
ommends over-the-counter an-
tihistamines and using them ev-
ery day “if you have a history of
suffering during outdoor activi-
ties.”
‘You’re better off premedicat-
ing than chasing the symptoms,”
Sugerman said.
Topical steroid nasal sprays
can relieve or diminish the con-
gestion that comes with a rag-
weed allergy, he said.
But more severe reactions
might require allergy shots to
control symptoms, he said.
BRIEFLY
ACROSS THE NATION
Albany, Ga.
Trial shows food safety
relies on honor system
Jurors at the nation’s first
federal criminal trial stemming
from a deadly outbreak of food-
borne illness are learning a dis-
concerting fact: America’s food
safety largely depends on the
honor system.
Witnesses say Stewart Par-
nell and others at Peanut Corp.
of America knowingly shipped
salmonella-tainted products,
and that they sent customers lab
results from other clean batches
rather than wait for tests to con-
firm their products were free of
deadly bacteria.
Defense lawyers correctly
noted for the jurors that salmo-
nella tests aren’t even required
by federal law.
Parnell and his two co-defen-
dants face long prison sentences if
convicted of knowingly shipping
the contaminated peanut prod-
ucts linked to a nationwide sal-
monella outbreak that killed nine
people and sickened 714 across 43
states in 2008 and 2009.
Their plant in rural Blakely,
Georgia, was shut down and the
company went bankrupt. Long
after consumers ate contami-
nated products, the outbreak
prompted one of the largest food
recalls in U.S. history.
Stewart Parnell, his brother
and food broker, Michael Parnell,
and quality assurance manager
Mary Wilkerson aren’t charged
with killing anybody. In fact,
prosecutors agreed not to men-
tion the death toll to the jurors.
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