Pollen counts are updated daily from February 15 to November 15.
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This year we are proud and excited to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of Carolina Asthma & Allergy Center. We are grateful to have been a part of the Charlotte regional community for so long. It truly is hard to comprehend how our practice has transformed in these past...
Read MoreSpring is upon us so welcome back to the first week of pollen counting. Carolina Asthma & Allergy Center has been proudly serving the allergy and asthma needs of Greater Charlotte for the past 70 years. And we have been the only certified pollen counter since the 1980s....
Read MoreWith the back-and-forth warm weather, your allergy symptoms might have started back up. It feels like spring out and it's confusing for many. You probably have a friend or family member in your life who doesn’t understand your allergy symptoms, because they don’t have them. Perhaps they had...
Read Moreby John T. Klimas, M.D. Date: 11/9/2017 With the frost coming in the next week or two, this will be the final pollen count for this year. Like the proverbial broken record, our most recent pollen counts (few in the past few days due to rain) have shown...
Read MoreHow Do Adult Onset of Allergies Happen? Just like childhood allergies, we do not completely understand why some people develop allergies and others don’t. We do know there are complex genetic and environmental factors involved. Scientists have proposed theories about why allergies occur including the “hygiene hypothesis” that...
Read Moreby John T. Klimas, M.D. Date: 10/19/2017 With color to some of the trees and crisp clear air, real fall weather has finally come to Charlotte. This week’s pollen counts have been very low, especially ragweed, but mold continues to be high. We are getting close to the first frost...
Read MoreThe American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) offers six tips to reduce the potential for allergens in your home during the holiday season. Click here to see the full article.
Read More"Avoiding flowers and trees will only get you so far during allergy season. Watch out for these surprising causes of allergy flare-ups...." Read the entire article from Time magazine here.
Read MoreA recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that a diet that includes peanuts in the first year of life may greatly reduce the chance of developing peanut allergies in children at risk for getting them. To read more about this important study, click...
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