Grab the tissues and start taking your allergy medicine if you live in NJ
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Aug. 15, 2006

Hay fever sufferers: Grab the tissues and start taking your allergy medicine. You''re in for a long, brutal season of sneezing, congestion, scratchy throat and irritated eyes, allergy specialists say.

The season started this week, a little earlier than usual. It promises to be intense, with ideal conditions for proliferation of ragweed, the cause of hay fever at this time of year, experts say. New Jersey and surrounding areas have had heavy rains, followed by very hot, dry weather and now the cool nights that prepare the weeds to release their built-up pollen grains.

"It will be a longer season and you will have more pollen than in previous years," said Dr. Leonard Bielory, director of the Asthma and Allergy Research Center at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark. "The crop is very robust."

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