CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Kids are starting to head back to school, pumpkin spice lattes are out and preseason football is on TV. With fall sneaking up on us, so are fall allergies .

But there are ways to get ahead of them.

According to the American College of Asthma and Immunology, fall allergies can start in late August or early September and last until November. So how can you get a head start on allergy season?

“I typically tell my patients that fall allergies start right around Labor Day, and they go until the first of snowfall," Dr. Sandra Hong, an allergist with the Cleveland Clinic, said. "When kids go back to school, we are in fall allergy season."

The Carolina Asthma and Allergy Center says ragweed is one of the most notorious fall allergens. It usually sprouts up in August and is qu

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