(WKBN) - Although we're still enjoying the summer sunshine, fall allergy season is right around the corner. In fact, you may be reaching for the tissue box sooner than you think.

Dr. Sandra Hong, an allergist with the Cleveland Clinic, says fall allergy season starts around Labor Day and goes until the first snowfall. So back-to-school season is prime time for these allergies.

If you suffer from fall allergies, she recommends starting allergy medications about two weeks before your symptoms typically begin.

Above all, Hong says it's important to know when to see an allergist.

"If they continue to be miserable. So the medications aren't working over-the-counter or they're actually having troubles with daily living -- so they're having shortness of breath, they're coughing, they're wheez

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