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Title: 1089 grains per cubic meter
Post by: MountainDon on February 25, 2009, 10:26:48 AM
That's yesterday juniper pollen count, and I knew it before I read it.  :( :( :( :( :(





normal is less than 100
Title: Re: 1089 grains per cubic meter
Post by: Windpower on February 27, 2009, 08:34:52 AM
Is that the 'yellow dust' I used to see all over everything when I went to Houston ?
Title: Re: 1089 grains per cubic meter
Post by: southernsis on February 27, 2009, 08:41:00 AM
We don't have the junipers, but we get the pollen from the oaks. Thick yellow power everywhere. Nothing helps the allergies when they start.
Title: Re: 1089 grains per cubic meter
Post by: Windpower on February 27, 2009, 08:52:01 AM
It didn't seem to bother me, but it was amazing how thick it got sometimes

the rental cars would start out clean, and overnight just covered with the stuff

Title: Re: 1089 grains per cubic meter
Post by: MountainDon on February 27, 2009, 10:47:18 AM
This time of year you can walk up to a juniper tree or bush and give it a shake that releases a cloud of pollen that is incredibly dense. Sort of looks like smoke.

If I stay inside the house with it's electrostatically cleaned air (built into furnace) my symptoms are reduced. So I don't go for morning walks this time of year. I shift to evenings as pollen output is supposed to be lessened in the later part of the day.
Title: Re: 1089 grains per cubic meter
Post by: Sassy on February 27, 2009, 01:27:08 PM
Gee, I'm glad I don't have allergies to pollen.  My dad & brother were miserable during certain parts of the year.  We have the oaks & pines - we have yellow pollen all over everything in the spring - it hasn't started yet up here.
Title: Re: 1089 grains per cubic meter
Post by: MountainDon on February 27, 2009, 01:31:54 PM
To add to my misery by the time the pollen count down here goes doen to where I am managing again, the snow in the mountains will be gone. Then when I go up there I can relive the experience as the process repeats in the higher elevations.  :(
Title: Re: 1089 grains per cubic meter
Post by: cordwood on February 27, 2009, 10:01:25 PM
Local honey made from that pollen is said to ease allergic reactions to the pollen that the honey came from. ???
If your local bee keepers haven't been wiped out by colony collapse! d*
Title: Re: 1089 grains per cubic meter
Post by: Sassy on February 28, 2009, 08:05:23 PM
Good advice, I didn't think of that. 
Title: Re: 1089 grains per cubic meter
Post by: glenn kangiser on March 01, 2009, 06:30:13 PM
Beconase or Vancenase a few times a year cures it for me but little problem since I have taken refuge in the hills... [waiting]