{"id":153871,"date":"2026-04-01T02:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/153871\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T02:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:02:26","slug":"allergy-season-is-hitting-philadelphia-early-due-to-warmer-temps-heres-what-doctors-recommend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/153871\/","title":{"rendered":"Allergy season is hitting Philadelphia early due to warmer temps. Here&#8217;s what doctors recommend."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The welcome blast of warm weather is a nice treat for the Philadelphia region, but it&#8217;s also bringing a big increase in pollen, which will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/media\/allergy-survival-guide-doctors-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">trigger symptoms in people who have spring allergies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors said the yo-yo of warm and cool temperatures is causing allergy symptoms to fluctuate.<\/p>\n<p>On the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the warm, breezy conditions have pollen flying and people with allergies are suffering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the worst season yet. Instead of taking meds once a day, I got to take them twice,&#8221; Margie Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors said the Delaware Valley is experiencing an early spring allergy season due to warmer temperatures, with maple and juniper trees blooming now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re getting a wave of allergy patients in,&#8221; said Dr. Nikolaus Hjelm, of the Advocare ENT Specialty Center in Marlton, which is a Virtua affiliate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the heat comes up all of a sudden, the trees release a bunch of pollen,&#8221; Hjelm said. &#8220;When it gets cold, the trees don&#8217;t. You can see that up and down nature as a patient, where you get really intense symptoms and then they go away, and then they come back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hjelm said people with spring allergies should already be taking medications before symptoms start.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s multiple ways to treat patients, either with nasal sprays, eye drops, or oral antihistamines,&#8221; Hjelm said.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors also recommend taking frequent showers when coming in from outside, keeping windows closed and using HEPA filters on high pollen count days.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors said the spring allergy season is starting earlier and lasting longer, mainly because of global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Tree pollen peaks during April and May, and typically ends by mid-June. While tree pollen dominates early spring, grass pollen adds to symptoms from early April through June.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The welcome blast of warm weather is a nice treat for the Philadelphia region, but it&#8217;s also bringing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[65462,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-153871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-allergies","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}