Is anybody else having bad allergies today? If so, what are you allergic to? I’m trying to figure out what I’m allergic to. Weather.com has some nice allergy maps.
Tree Pollen
Grass Pollen
Ragweed Pollen
Mold Spores
I think I’m allergic to mold spores.
I’m terribly allergic to horse dander, but I see that Weather.com doesn’t track such things. 🙂 I haven’t been outside yet today to see if I would suffer, but my son has allergies in the fall. Have you found medication that helps you? I’m still trying to find something that works.
I don’t think horse dander is generally considered airborne. I wonder if you can get statistics on the horse population in areas. That might be an interesting map. Someone should do a mashup-map between mold spores and gas prices.
Does weather.com give any indication of where they get their raw data from? (I’m too lazy to look)
mold spores. maybe grass pollen. definitely the cats that live in my house.
mold for me, for sure. mine are killing me right now in austin, and they are usually bad in chicago in the summer. also ragweed.. once on a camping trip we made it to our site, surrounded by a sea of yellow…ragweed wouldntcha know :/ brutal.
Chris, horse dander! whoa. The only horses we have in chicago are those horse carriages on Michigan avenue. I think I notice their pe-e smell more than their dander. icky! Sparx, mold spores/gas prices mashup!? What are they interrelated? Is this a conspiracy? Is the Middle East giving us more mold, so we become less productive? Erin, you are allergic to the cats in your own house? Cat, yeah, it looks like on that map that Te-xas gets hit pretty bad with the mold too. Can you imagine living in St. Louis! That’s the mold capital of America! Every day since October I’ve been downloading the mold map image, so I can track what times of year are really bad. And St. Louis is always in that red color! I can not live in St. Louis. (heh, this comment kept getting rejected by my spam filters, cuz i was using the word “tex-as.” I have to put a dash in there to fool it. For awhile I was getting a bunch of spam comments with “tex-as hold-em” links, so i had to filter out tex-as.
my mouth gets itchy if i eat too much can’t-e-low-pa