for the 50 is probably 60 that.
>> I’m Sofia Ojeda KPRC.
2 all right. You’re not alone.
If you’ve been suffering from
allergies. So, yeah, a lot of
you who are watching this been
miserable for like a month now.
>> Our area is really now at
the peak of pollen season to
talk more about seasonal
allergies. We are
joined by her fury of Al public
information officer for the
Houston Health Department.
>> And good morning to you.
>> Talk a little bit about what
we’re seeing at the Houston
Health Department’s weekday
pollen reports currently what
it what are they revealing?
>> Good morning. Yes, we’ve
been seeing high pollen counts
and says for the past 2 weeks
we’ve seen an extremely high
pollen counts. What’s that
means there are a lot of spore
sent the trees are releasing
because they’re trying to
reduce the trying to do with
the naturally happens every
And we don’t expect to see many
more days of the our season is
from Mid-January to in April.
So we’ll continue to see those
states with high pollen counts
and also sometimes extreme
called icon conch and also one
of those wind comes from other
areas They can bring some even
wore a pollen because the wind
carries those spores into our
area.
>> Yeah, we all know that oak
pollen has been really tough
so far this season. What are
the pollen allergy symptoms?
I know there’s a rain. So give
us a rundown of those
>> you basically going to be
like you have a comb. So
basically you you in watery
eyes, Dpt Your nose is running.
You coughing, you Sometimes
you get in The rules of your
mouth. You may be some circles
are in your eyes. you know, you
you in the days
are beautiful outside, but you
just feel Mister Muller, you
just feel awful. And and and
that is it’s hard for people
to basically function. It’s
basically I can comb.
>> And talk a little bit of
a bow. What allergy suffers can
do to protect themselves if
they need to go outside.
A lot of people work outside or
maybe some people are headed to
the rodeo as well.
>> Well, this is the time when
they cars that you really need
to limit the amount of time
outdoors. So the reality
suffer. You want to ask you,
friend, Yarder those projects
on societies. They also they
can hold the price of milk that
we matter until you have lower
the day’s low with lower pollen
count, you want to make sure
that you put on sunglasses and
had just to keep that pollen of
away from you all. So once you
go back indoors, you know, take
off those clothes because
they’re on a minute
also before you too bad, you
want to make sure the show.
We don’t want that talent to be
on your on your bed and you’re
suffering all night. That’s
just going to turn to
some more Audi If you have to
be dry somewhere, roll that all
of your windows. So you know
that that will help keep that
Colin away from, you know,
breathe a lot better and feel
better without that extra
exposure to to that pollen.
>> Yeah, we know the weekday
pollen count and report is a is
a great resource for folks.
You know, you can check it kind
of gives you a better sense of
why you may be feeling the way
you do on that particular day.
Gives up some of mind for folks
who don’t know about the
weekday pollen and mold report.
They want to check it out.
How can they do that?
>> Young people can go to
Houston, Health Dot org and it
gives basically what would
happen is happening that day.
So basic that around 9, 30 10
o’clock will issue that pollen
port. And you can that pollen
to be for the next 24 48 hours.
48 hours. That’s what you will
have. So basically of forecasts
and also listen to the weather.
You’re meteorologist there.
They’re going to be telling
first time what it what is
happening because they received
the reports that then we put
out every day.
>> Thank you so much for that.
Gordon information looks like
I’ll be staying indoors through
mid-April. Yeah. Thank you for
joining us this morning and be