Seasonal Allergy and Bronchitis: What Is the Connection?
Updated on April 25, 2020 John was a Navy hospital corpsman. He worked the general sick bay, managed a carrier O.R., and treated heat rash, eczema, and dyshidrosis. Pollen May Be the Guilty Party Seasonal bronchitis from outdoor pollen can also be referred to as pollen bronchitis. Allergies at My Age? My suspicion is that many seniors experience what I have experienced. You wake up one morning with your sinuses clogged and feeling like you are coming down with a cold. You write it off as having come in contact with coughing, sneezing people at a supermarket or you blame it on your grandchildren who seem to have always caught something at school. For years this was what passed through my mind in the fall. I knew that if it persisted for a couple weeks I would no doubt have bronchitis. Then there would be the visit to the primary care physician who would prescribe an antibiotic. It seemed that at 65 years of age my number had come up. Yearly upper respiratory infections were...