8 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
WEDNESDAY, JULY 5,2006
Summer affects old, new allergy sufferers
Photo illustration by Joshua Bickel
DANI HURST
dhurst@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Manrique Cartin, Costa Rica senior, said he rarely gets sick. But this summer, he's been visiting Watkins Memorial Health Center, east of Robinson Center, more frequently because of a sore throat and irritated eyes and nose.
His allergies were worse at the beginning of the summer, but Cartin said he noticed things floating around lately, and thought that might have had something to do with it.
"If you can see stuff," Cartin said, "I think it's pretty bad."
Allergens in the air vary constantly, but this year has had higher-than-average amounts of tree and grass pollen, said Dr. James Ransom, an allergist at the Allergy and Asthma Clinic in Topeka, 1123 S.W. Gage Blvd.
In addition to the pollen, outdoor mold is also negatively affecting people, the worst of which was a mold called "alternaria," Ransom said.
Agricultural or soil mold is one of the most prominent allergens in the air, especially because of the wheat harvest, which tends to scatter mold spores into the air, he said.
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