Why allergy seasons are getting worse

Plus more health news | Email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser.]( [Health Matters]( [How bad allergy seasons affect your health]( By Jamie Ducharme Health Correspondent This spring, for the first time in my adult life, I had an ear infection. When I complained about it to family and friends (sorry, family and friends), a bunch of them mentioned that an unusual number of people in their lives also recently had ear infections. I wondered if this painful trend could be related to this year’s bad allergy season, which left many people—myself included—sniffly and congested for weeks. It turns out that it might be. Lingering allergies can increase your risk for multiple complications, from asthma attacks to sinus, ear, and respiratory infections, experts told me. That’s not great news, since allergy seasons are getting more intense as climate change leads to shorter, milder winters. As pollen counts rise and allergy seasons drag on longer, we may all be in for unpleasant springs ahead—unless, as experts recommended, we start reaching for the allergy meds earlier and earlier. [READ MORE]( Share This Story What Else to Read [You Don’t Need to Balance Your Hormones]( By Haley Weiss Despite what TikTok says. [Read More »]( [Women Should Start Getting Mammograms at 40, Not 50, U.S. Health Panel Recommends]( By Associated Press A U.S. health panel just made the new recommendation. [Read More »]( [What 3 Grieving Dads Want You to Know About America’s Fentanyl Crisis]( By Ed Ternan, Dean Jeske and George Gerchow "In a sense, young people are dying from a lack of information." [Read More »]( [The Most Effective Way to Get Through to Parents Who Won’t Vaccinate Their Kids]( By Jeffrey Kluger Trusted parents may be better than doctors at raising vaccine rates, a new study suggests. [Read More »]( [How to Manage Catastrophic Thinking]( By Martin Seligman The catastrophizer's mindset turns out to be an enormous impediment to happiness. [Read More »]( ONE LAST READ [Big corporations are gobbling up primary-care practices]( Primary-care practices in the U.S. are overworked. That’s part of the appeal for corporations—like CVS Health and Amazon—that are buying them up at a rapid clip so they can absorb the smaller practices' many patients, reports Reed Abelson for the New York Times. But while it may be good for profits, the consolidation of medical care isn’t necessarily good for patients or doctors, experts say. [Read More »]( --------------------------------------------------------------- If you were forwarded this and want to sign up to receive it daily, [click here](. Today's newsletter was written by Jamie Ducharme and Mandy Oaklander, and edited by Angela Haupt. [Want more from TIME? Sign up for our other newsletters.]( [Subscribe to TIME]( TIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services in this email. Offers may be subject to change without notice. Connect with TIME via [Facebook]( | [Twitter]( | [Newsletters]( [UNSUBSCRIBE]( [PRIVACY POLICY]( [YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS]( TIME Customer Service, P.O. Box 37508, Boone, IA 50037-0508 Questions? Contact health@time.com Copyright © 2023 TIME USA, LLC. All rights reserved.