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Seasonal allergies can make you miserable this time of year. From the itchy eyes and watery noses, the symptoms can be unbearable. While nothing guarantees that your allergies won’t flair up this season, there are some helpful tips that you can follow that will lessen the effects they have on your life. Don’t let seasonal allergies ruin your day, put these tips to work for you!

1. Step one requires a trip to your doctor. Make sure you get the proper treatment to help with your allergy symptoms by discussing the severity of your allergies with a physician. They will be able to conduct tests and make observations, and from that make proper recommendations for your specific allergy symptoms.

2. Step two is identifying your allergy triggers. This not only can help you stave off potential attacks, but can also be a great way in predicting the severity of your allergies in a given season. While other factors, including weather, are contributors, using the allergy forecast available from your local news channel is the best way to predict the severity of your seasonal allergies.

3. Step three is to protect yourself at all times. This can include simple procedures such as wearing a mask when gardening or mowing, and wearing sunglasses to limit the amount of pollen entering your eyes. All of these small steps can help keep your seasonal allergies from being unbearable. Also, try limiting your outdoor time to early mornings and late evenings. Plants are less active during this time, and flair ups will be less prevalent.

4. Step 4 is to watch the food you consume. While it may seem like a nonsense notion, certain foods have been shown to cause ragweed allergies to be intensified, and thus make your allergy break outs more severe. Try experimenting, and see which foods cause you more discomfort to weed out your triggers.

5. The fifth step is to keep your house clean and your windows closed. While it can be tempting to leave your windows open, doing so brings all the things that trigger your allergies inside. This leads to poor sleep quality, which impedes the immune system and may cause your seasonal allergy symptoms to worsen.