In Japan, 80% of low-rise houses are made of wood, and there is a high demand for wood, so a large number of cedar trees are planted that are suitable for building materials. Every year around March, the cedar trees bloom and pollen flies. In addition, Japan is surrounded by the sea and often has strong winds. When a strong wind blows, the air is filled with pollen from cedar trees, creating Japan's "national disease" - hay fever, that is, pollen allergies. It is said that a quarter of all Japanese people have cedar pollen allergies, including my child and his father.
Whenever there are many advertisements for allergy drugs on TV, the child also starts to rub his eyes, sneeze and have a runny nose. It is necessary to take the child to the pediatric hospital to get medicine, a month's supply of anti-allergy medicine and eye drops.
The anti-allergy medicine twice a day is easy to solve, mix it with some water, and the child will drink it in one gulp. The difficult thing is to use eye drops several times a day, even coaxing and cheating. The child was scared and resisted, which made me very tired.
And the effect of the medicine is not very good, all day long, the nasal cavity is full of snot, and I am worried that he will become an adenoid face because of his nose plugged and breathing through his mouth. What is more worrying is that he rubs his eyes violently from time to time, and children of three or four years old do not know how to control their strength, and hurt their corneas or retina detachment.
For all these reasons, I really didn't like March in Japan and wanted to take my whole family to escape.