Hay fever takes a toll on quality of life and social relationships. Symptoms can be prevented with medication and good habits.

Now grass pollen is in the air: How to prevent hay fever

Both children and adults are plagued by hay fever. Grass pollen in the air can mean that some have to give up playing soccer in the summer. Foto: Finn Frandsen

No sooner is the birch pollen season drawing to a close than grass pollen is now setting the country’s roughly one million pollen allergy sufferers sneezing and struggling for breath.

Many people with hay fever have trouble with several kinds of pollen, but the type that triggers symptoms in the most people is grass.

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