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If you are feeling like your itchy eyes, runny nose and scratchy cough are worse than usual this allergy season, then it s possible the pandemic could be to blame, according to a Sacramento-area allergy expert. Recently, we had a couple days where every phone call was for people seeking eye drops. Call after call after call. It was unusual, said Dr. Travis Miller of The Allergy Station in Roseville.That unusual string of calls, in addition to what he is seeing with his patients, has led Miller to theorize that last year s shelter-in-place order may have created a phenomenon this year that is creating stronger allergy symptoms than normal. Last March, April and May, we were all indoors sheltering in place at the crunch time of the pandemic. What I ve noticed is that a lot of patients who seemed to have symptoms better controlled last year are really suffering this year, because their body took a break during the pandemic, said Miller. Their immune systems sort of forgot how to