If you’re someone who suffers from environmental allergies, you may associate allergy season with the spring months. Early spring during the first months of the plant blooming season can be problematic for anyone who experiences seasonal allergies. However, depending on what you’re allergic to, spring is not the only time when seasonal allergies can cause allergy symptoms. Keep reading to learn more about symptoms that you have summer allergies and tips for managing your summer allergy symptoms.
If you’re suffering from seasonal allergy symptoms, AFC Urgent Care Lyndhurst provides same-day allergy symptom diagnosis and management. Simply walk into the clinic, or schedule your visit online in advance. Our clinic maintains short wait times and is open to provide convenient healthcare to patients in Lyndhurst, NJ, 7 days a week.
What Causes Summer Allergies?
Seasonal allergies can be caused by a variety of environmental irritants. Most notably, plant pollens are a very common allergen that are at an all time high during the spring season. During the summer months, plants are still growing and releasing plenty of pollen, meaning that you can still suffer from allergy symptoms in the summer.
Seasonal allergies can last from early spring all the way until late fall. How long you suffer from symptoms and how severe your symptoms depend on your personal allergies and how severely allergic you are. Your lifestyle and how often you are in contact with allergens through outdoor activities can also impact your symptoms.
Are My Symptoms Caused By Allergies or Illness?
Compared to the fall and winter months, illnesses tend to be less common during the summer months. This is due to a variety of different reasons. A major reason is that we spend less time indoors where illnesses can easily spread from person to person. However, it is still very possible to contract an illness during the summer months which is why it is important to know whether your symptoms indicate that you’re sick or just suffering from seasonal allergies.
Common allergy symptoms include:
- Itchy or watery eyes
- Sneezing
- Congestion
- Cough
- Sore throat
- Rash
Signs that you’re suffering from allergies and not an illness tend to focus around how your symptoms behave. For allergies, your symptoms will likely flare and resolve based on your exposure to the allergen causing your symptoms. This means that going outside may make your symptoms worse, but staying indoors with your windows closed may make your symptoms better. With an illness, symptoms do not come and go over time and tend to progressively worsen over the course of a few days.
Tips for Managing Seasonal Allergy Symptoms
If you are someone who suffers from seasonal allergies through the summer months, it is important to understand what is causing your symptoms. If it is plant pollen, limiting your time outdoors in the middle of the day may help reduce your exposure to pollen.
However, allergy symptoms are very treatable and manageable with the correct course of treatment and preventative care. Over the counter allergy medications can be taken in advance of going outside to help prevent symptoms from appearing. Similarly, eye drops and nasal sprays can both help alleviate symptoms while you’re spending time outdoors.
Visit AFC Urgent Care Lyndhurst for Same-Day Allergy Symptom Diagnosis & Treatment
If you’re experiencing allergy symptoms during the summer and find it difficult to go about your daily life, you should seek medical care. At AFC Urgent Care Lyndhurst, our board-certified medical providers are trained to identify symptoms of seasonal allergies and can provide guidance and medication recommendations to help you manage your symptoms during peak allergy season. Our clinic accepts walk-in patients and maintains short wait times, making it easy to get rapid symptom diagnosis and treatment. We accept most medical insurance plans and offer affordable care rates. Simply walk into the clinic today, or call us directly for more information at (201) 345-3839.
