Question on allergies

[Anaamika]

I live in Upstate. I am allergic to a bunch of stuff, but the only one that really bothers me are (is?) dust mites. I sneeze in the morning and sniffle, and by 2 or 3 hours after I wake up it's completely gone.

However, whenever I go down to Long Island my allergies are severe. So bad that I feel like I have a cold. I sniffle and sneeze all day, my eyes are itchy, the whole nine yards. It's so bad that even strong medicine doesn't get rid of all of it.

However, when I go as far as NYC, I once again have little to no problem. At first I thought it must be something in my boyfriend's parents' house, but everywhere I go on LI I get the same reaction.

Why is the difference so sharp, do you think? What could be bothering me so much in the LI air? My homepage links to the Yahoo! allergen measuring page, and I don't see anything drastically different between upstate and LI.

[tomndebb]

Fish? Seawater?

Actually, LI is a pretty big place and it may depend on where on LI you spend your time, (even if you move about, unless you truly travel the entire reach of the island).

Certainly, having a dust mite allergy with fewer triggers in NYC than on LI is counterintuitive. However, there could be a number of situations that could create this situation:
- You have additional allergies that are triggered by a factor on LI that does not occur in NYC;
- When you are in NYC you happen to spend most of your time in large enclosed structures with newer HVAC units that scrub for allergens;
- your location on LI just happens to be in a more direct downwind path from places in New Jersey (or Staten Island or Queens) that happen to be producing the stuff that bothers you most,

[Anaamika]

I thought it had to be something like that, but it just sucks. I was hoping someone would say, "Oh, yeah, that's the new plant, they're pumping out allergens."

Or something. :D