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Published: Friday, April 5, 2013, 12:01 a.m.  Allergy season is
expected to be worse than usual  If spring's blue skies and
warmer temperatures make you shudder at the thought of another
miserable pollen season, prepare to hunker down. This is
expected to be an unusually bad allergy season. On Sunday,
forecasts call for tree pollens to spike, hitting high gear.
Cedar, juniper and alder, "they're all pretty equal offenders,"
said Dr. Nilesh Shah, an ear, nose and throat specialist at
Northwest Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle. Tree pollens
will affect people for about another month, Shah said. Then in
mid-May, the grasses will kick in. "This year in particular
we're forecasted to have a bad allergy season," he said.
Predictions call for a warmer than typical summer. "That will be
associated with significant allergens." Spring allergies can
cause a variety of problems: sneezing, runny noses, wat