Boston Weighs In On The Best Ways To Fight Allergy Season

With pollen on the offensive this week, what's the best strategy to stave off the sniffles and sneezes? WBZ's Kyle Bray went to find out.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
When it comes to tackling seasonal allergies. Rich and Karen
have a whole arsenal on hand wash.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Your face at night tech works. Yeah, Clariton and uh
Nettie Pott.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
They're in town visiting from New York and we're caught
off guard by the Boston pollend. But they're not the
only ones.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
I moved from Philly and I feel like there's a
lot more nature here, so it's actually worse than normal.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Kylie's go to is to use eye drops. If things
get crazy, she'll reach for some generic allergy meds. And
then there's Isaiah, who's caught in an endless loop of
brand names.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
I don't think anything else me anymore, but I've noticed
I have to change my medicine every year.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
One thing he says he'll never try again is the
method of eating local honey to build up a pollen tolerance.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
I tried it for years. No, it didn't work. I think,
if anything, I got worse.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
But at the end of the.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
Day, part of it is you just have to suck
it up and make it through. It means summer's coming.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Sniffling in the city. Kyle Bray WBZ Boston's News radio