Allergy specialists, average El Pasoans, and especially pharmacists are all seeing the symptoms and feeling the effects of the recent allergy upswing. What is to blame for the sniffles, sneezing, and sore throats, is all the recent rain.

Eric Garcia, a Walgreens pharmacist, said, "Kind of makes sense with all the rain, the allergies are going to cause that, that's probably what the main reason is."

Garcia also said he can't keep allergy medicine on his shelves. "I think I have run out of the main product that I recommend."

Claudia Sanchez said the allergies have been unbearable for her husband. "Oh, he's sneezing all the time, runny nose, we're running out of tissues all day because he's running over to get them."

He gets allergies every year around this time, but has been especially bad recently. Sanchez said, "I think this year has been harder on him, I remember last year walking and it didn't seem as bad, this year, during the nighttime it has been ridiculous."

Experts say Sanchez's husband might see relief soon enough. "If they are having very mild symptoms that occur a day or two out of the year, they can take over-the-counter medicine," said Dr. John York, with the York Allergy Clinic.

But York said for some, it could be the start of something more serious. "But if there are symptoms that linger and they last for weeks, or if they are consistent where they happen every year, that's time that they might consider seeing an allergy sub-specialist."