Pollen drifts innocuously through the air. From dusk until dawn, you just can’t seem to stop sneezing. Then one morning you wake up with a sore throat and a cough. Is it that cold your neighbor had ...

It's allergy season, but 2025 is also a year for the common cold. Cold and flus are at an all-time high, making it difficult to discern what your symptoms are trying to tell you. If you're reaching ...

The allergies or cold question is relevant for more of the year as climate crisis has made allergy season longer and more intense.Photograph: Carol Yepes/Getty Images Ah, spring. A time of thawing and ...

Sneezing, coughing, postnasal drip... It's not always easy to tell the difference between seasonal allergies and colds. "There is quite a bit of overlap in symptoms," says Sanjeev Jain, M.D., a ...

You're stuffed up, you're sniffling - but is it an allergy or is it a cold? It's not always easy to tell, even for someone like Dr. Kevin Lunde, an otolaryngologist at Baylor Plano hospital in Texas. ...

As temperatures rise, flowers bloom and viruses continue to circulate, it can be challenging to tell whether it’s the last gasps of cold season or if allergy season springs anew. Both have similar ...