Fall Allergy Season: Top 10 Cities for Allergies
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) has announced its Fall 2008 10 Worst Cities to live in for allergy suffers.
As ABC News details, the list is created with one purpose in mind - help allergy sufferers determine where not to live.
At the top of this year’s list is Greensboro, North Carolina which, with its potent combination of high pollen count, large number of allergy medications prescribed, and area allergy experts, outdistanced runners-up Greenville, South Carolina, and Little Rock, Arkansas.
Dr. Harold Nelson, an allergist at National Jewish Health, in Denver, Colorado, told ABC that ragweed, a common source of allergies, can affect sensitive nasal passages at different times in Fall and depends on the changing temperatures.
For Greensboro residents, it doesn’t help that weeds and mold are usually very active in the Fall in addition to the ragweed.
But even for the 10th city of the list, Madison, Wisconsin, sufferers from rag weed pollen should not run and go live in a pine forest in that there are many different, effective allergy treatments now available.
The Complete Top 10 List of Allergy Cities
(courtesy of The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America)
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1. Greensboro, NC
2. Greenville, SC
3. Little Rock, AR
4. Raleigh-Durham, NC
5. Jackson, MS
6. Knoxville, TN
7. Grand Rapids, MI
8. Wichita, KS
9. Oklahoma City, OK
10. Madison, WI
