COLUMN: Time to grab the tissues … it’s ragweed season – Midland Today

Sep. 3, 2024

A good sized ragweed can have 5,000 seed pods and releases about 1.25 million pollen grains a day and can travel up to 125 miles, warns columnist

If this is the fourth time you’ve tried to read this column, having being drawn away in search of tissue to blow your nose or to wipe your running eyes, then persevere … this topic will be of interest to you. It’s ragweed season!

You might as well know what you’re suffering from, which is classic seasonal allergic rhinitis, also known as hay fever. “But,” you may well mumble from behind that recent wad of tissue, “isn’t hay fever a spring condition? Like, when the grass is spreading its pollen?”

Well, yes, it is the same, only different … instead of grass pollen, your nose has now sucked in some ragweed pollen. Both are spread by the wind. Sucks to be you, I guess.