Chattanooga Allergy Clinic physician Marc Cromie said spring allergy season started a full month early this year thanks to a warm winter, and it won’t stop until May. The air is still full of tree pollen.
“We’ re completely swamped now,” Cromie said. “We got something going on year-round but this is our peak season.”
Cromie said patients come to Chattanooga Allergy for “something different” after trying over-the-counter medicines or nasal sprays from their primary care doctors.
“This time of year really nothing [at the drugstore] works,” he said. “The day you stop those allergy meds the symptoms come back.”
Cromie said CAC’s weekly allergy shots – all-natural immunotherapy – work like a vaccine. Many patients, he said, take shots for four or five years and do not have allergy symptoms anymore, according to him.