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Allergies: Risks & Cure

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  Your Allergies and Associated Risks How can windy weather impact your health? Do your eyes water on windy days? Are you always stuffy when the wind blows? That's no surprise. Stormy weather is a common allergy trigger. Blasting air and leaf blowers can whip up hazardous particles including pollens, grasses, and contaminants from the ground at higher speeds, sending them long distances. Epidemiological studies have long recognized the harm of these particles — including pollens, spores, fungi, animal droppings, pesticides and herbicides, ragweed, grasses, brake-lining dust, fertilizers, tire residue, and heavy metals — cause to people's respiratory systems, stated in Air Quality Management District reports. These inhaled particles move into your blood via the lungs. When these particles come in contact with your body cell, your immune system may over-react considering these particles as harmful invaders or allergens, thereby releasing "histamine," a chemical