SNIFFLING, ITCHY EYES, GENERALLY feeling like a disembodied head—you swear your allergies haven’t ever been this bad. And you’re probably right. “I’ve been an allergist for more than a decade now, and every year seems to be the worst allergy year ever,” says Caroline Sokol, M.D., Ph.D., a physician in Massachusetts General Hospital’s Allergy & Clinical Immunology Unit.
Blame climate change, which is taking allergens to a whole new level: Pollen season now starts