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There's something in the air: ragweed

By Debra Pressey
Saturday September 2, 2006

John Dixon

Dr. Avin Uppal demonstrates how an allergy skin test is administered.

CHAMPAIGN – Even if he didn't check the pollen counts every day, Dr. Arvin Uppal would know by the stuffiness of his own nose that ragweed season has started with a vengeance.

"I think it's definitely worse this year," says Uppal, an ear, nose and throat doctor with Provena Medical Group in Urbana and an allergy sufferer himself.

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