in my excessive efforts to document everything, i have kept a record of my allergic conditions over the last three spring seasons.
what i logged:
- the weather
- the currently abloom allergens (hazel*, alder, yew, poplar, elm, willow*, ash*, birch*)
here’s a statistical calendar of pollen-stress in innsbruck/austria (pdf)
(* marks the pollen i’m certainly allergic to, i’m not sure about the other ones) - my general preference of food (sweet, sour, fatty, hot, salty, meaty)
- the medication i took (which was not very much)
- my amount of sleep (4,5 to 11 hours)
- my meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
- the strength of allergic symptoms (barely, slight, medium, high; with “+” and “-” as add-ons)
looking back at this log (screenshot), one of the most striking connections [more...]
