According to clinics across the area, spring allergies are the main thing affecting people right now.
Fort Bend County
CVS Health’s District Leader Aisha Jangda said patients are mostly coming in with stuffy noses.
Spring allergies have been more common.
However, here in Fort Bend, there are now fewer flu cases.
Galveston and Brazoria County
District Leader Jaydip Patel with CVS Health said they’re still seeing COVID and flu cases, also some pneumonia.
Pharmacist Rochelle Guyse explained how pneumonia is exactly the reason why something as simple as allergies need to be treated, “If you don’t get that under control, it will just drain and once it gets into the chest, that’s where, you know, it’s super, super important to nip that in the bud because once you leave that untreated, that’s how people get into pneumonia. That’s how people get into bronchitis.”
She said symptoms should not be tolerated for more than a week before seeing a doctor to avoid worsening complications that come from untreated allergies and congestion.
City of Houston
The Houston Health Department said there were seven reports of meningitis here between November and February, and 27 cases across the state.
The illnesses can be severe and deadly, but luckily the Houston patients have survived.