{"id":100794,"date":"2022-06-15T16:41:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=100794"},"modified":"2022-06-15T16:41:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:41:35","slug":"managing-allergies-during-peak-season-queens-immunologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/managing-allergies-during-peak-season-queens-immunologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing allergies during peak season: Queen&#8217;s immunologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a challenging time of year for those with seasonal allergies, particularly with sensitivity to trees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Anne Ellis, chair of the Division of Allergy and Immunology in the Department of Medicine at Queen's University, says there are some trees that cause more \"potent\" allergies than others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Birch is the most potent of tree allergies we get exposed to this time of year, it\u2019s pretty much died off now, oak comes a little later and it\u2019s still circulating, maple is still circulating\u2026but the dominant driver right now is definitely grass pollen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Ellis says newer non-sedating antihistamines such as Allegra and Blexten, which is available by prescription, can be more effective and safer than older antihistamines like Benadryl. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She adds that nasal corticosteroids are very effective for hay fever symptoms. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Ellis adds that if medications are not working, seeing an allergist can get to the root of your symptoms. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe can prescribe a customized immunotherapy\u2026to train your immune system to no longer have your ongoing seasonal allergies\u2026 your immune system becomes accustomed to it by taking small amounts of the allergen\u2026It won\u2019t work if you\u2019re in the throws of the season, you have to plan for next year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Ellis, spring allergy season typically wraps up by mid-July.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full CFRC interview with Dr. Anne Ellis below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a challenging time of year for those with seasonal allergies, particularly with sensitivity to trees. Dr. Anne Ellis, chair of the Division of Allergy and Immunology in the Department of Medicine at Queen&#8217;s University, says there are some trees that cause more &#8220;potent&#8221; allergies than others. \u201cBirch is the most potent of tree&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":100797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[223],"tags":[15632,15636,15635,15633,15634,15637],"radio":[13056],"origine":[267,13051,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100794"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100876,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100794\/revisions\/100876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100794"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=100794"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=100794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}