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Itchy and puffy eyes. Running nose. Sneezing three times in a row.
Here comes again! But this year it came back stronger to me. Yesterday, I could not keep my eyes open in my office. I couldn't read literatures which I wanted to add to my report. I ended up submitting it without them.
Hay fever. As you know it is called pollen illness in Japan and if you are allergic to a certain kind of pollen, you will develop the symptoms above. About one out of five of the Japanese are said to suffer it. Yesterday, I counted up the people in a train who wore a mask. 8 people out of 35 did. A little more than 20 %.
Hay fever was believed to boost the economy since it leads patients to buying a mask, glasses, eye-drops and antiallergics. It does, but it is way too small to save this depression.
Japanese version of hay fever is mainly caused by cedar pollens. The forest industry in this country has long preferred to plant cedar trees because they grow fast and straight, which results in accounting for 50 % of the total forest area of Japan. Well, this is the reason why I take in millions of sperms of cedars every day and overly react to them by sneezing, spraying around with my saliva and all^^
It's a bit depressing thought that it will last for two months. It came almost one month earlier this year. So the suffering is as much longer. There's no choice for me but to cheerfully accept it as a harbinger of spring. Not bad. I am living at least.