Push back with pollen: local company attacks allergies

A Durham-based company uses local, natural resources to help those who suffer from allergies

New this morning& if you suffer from allergies - listen up.

There is a local business working hard, to go straight to the source -*polle* - to offer you some relief.

Drive around our region and you'll see plenty of trees and plants - in springtime bloom.

While out and about, i came upon this team& perched on a lift& whacking trees with long sticks.

O n the ground below - large sheets of plastic catching everything falling from above.

Naturally - i needed to find out what they were doing.

Turns out - this durham-based company is harvesting ingredients to help people who suffer from allergies.

N this case - the eastern sycamore; which this team tells me is quite abundant here in northern california.

((sot)) they affect people left and right sensitive to pollen.

We're gathering it so we can collect the raw material and send to a lab where they will create a syrum and used for people allergies and they'll get a shot in the arm once or twice a week and that will help lower their sensitivity to the pollen over time - and not be hit by typical symptoms. ((sot)) rather than a treatment that masks systems like taking an allergy ill, this treatment will work on the bodies own immune system" weirdert says his team will then sift through all of this - sorting leaves, sticks and debris - to get to these green balls - which hold 95% of the pollen.

The ingredient which ultimately will be put to good use - to stop the itchy eyes, runny noses and scratchy throats that are par for the course - with allergy season.

Weidert says most allergy medicines masks our symptoms. he says serums made*fro* the pollen - works directly on the body' immune system, offering relief from allergies.

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