If your allergy symptoms feel worse this year, you can blame the weather.

Most Hoosiers who suffer from allergies are dealing with tree pollen, which will give way to grass pollen later this month.

“Common trees like oak trees, hickory trees, birch, maple, elm beech, ash, all of those common trees that are pretty much found in woods all over the Midwest,” said Dr. Girish Vitalpur, with Riley Children’s Hospital Division of Pediatric Pulmonology Allergy and Sleep Medicine.

The recent cold snap may be prolonging allergy season.

Vitalpur cities a study from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology that says warming temperatures due to climate change also are having an impact.

“We find that pollen seasons tend to be longer, we find that there are greater levels of pollination, and we find that there is often a lot more over lapping of pollination,” said Vitalpur.

Children as young as two may start exhibiting signs of environmental allergies.

Parents and kids can mitigate exposure to pollen by wearing a hat or mask outdoors and changing clothes once you come back inside.

Vitalpur says if antihistamines don’t help, allergy injections could reduce severe symptoms.