If you're suffering through late-spring allergy season and you're about ready to move out of the Mid-South to find relief, don't go to Latin America. That's what I'm taking from reports of a study by Dr. Michael S. Blaiss of the University of Tennessee-Memphis. Blaiss found that nasal allergies suck just as bad in countries like Mexico, Brazil and Argentina as they do in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Apparently, this wasn't exactly what Blaiss expected from the research:
"What really surprised me about how much was identical, especially when we got into treatments and quality of life, was that this condition impacts people in Latin America as bad as we saw in the United States," Blaiss said.However, Latin Americans are able to find relief at least at certain times of the year, which is more than some of us in the Mid-South can say:
"Unlike what we saw in the US, where most patients complained of year-round allergy symptoms, in Latin America, most of the patients had seasonal allergy symptoms," Blaiss commented.
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