High spruce pollen levels causing eye, respiratory irrigation and nose bleeds.
Observation: This observation is from upper Rabbit Creek Road area in Anchorage. I noticed a lot of pollen on the hood of my truck which has been parked all week. Don't recall seeing this much pollen before. In the evening my kids were throwing a stick for the dog, and when it hit a spruce trees, a cloud of yellow pollen erupted from the branches. It was like a puff ball. It seems to be a really big pollen year, at least for spruce. We don't have a lot of pollen allergies in our family but over the past two days we have noticed our eyes itching and had a rash of nose bleeds including myself and both of my sons. I wondered if there is a connection with the pollen levels. We don't usually have nose bleeds in the spring or summer but we do have them when the air gets dry in the winter. We thought that the timing and number of nose bleeds was unusual. Mike Brubaker
LEO says: According to the American Academy of Otolaryngology, nosebleeds are most common in children between the ages of 2 and 10 and adults between the ages of 50 and 80. Seasonal allergies associated with pollen are among the leading causes of nosebleeds in children. Treat both the allergy and the nosebleed to reduce nosebleed frequency most effectively. Livestrong
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