Is Allergy Season Getting Worse Every Year?

Dr. Linda Dahl
4 min readMay 8, 2022
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Every spring, the news outlets seem to recycle the same message: This is the worst allergy season on record. At first glance, the headlines may seem dramatic. But, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation, they are actually true. In the last year, 19.2 million adults and 5.2 million children in the United States suffered from hay fever. Allergy season is getting worse every year. And the reasons why may…

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Dr. Linda Dahl

Physician. Author of Tooth and Nail:The Making of a Female Fight Doctor & Better Breastfeeding, http://www.drlindadahl.com @doctorlindadahl