He grinned, “I’d love to know what compounds were put into it. I already know of some plants that are good for fever reducing and blood thinning, it can’t be very much different.”

“Or it can be,” Carlos said. “So, my body thinks that pollen is a foreign invader – they think they’re germs that want to hurt me, so my immune system gets overactive. An antihistamine is just that – it calms down my histamine levels so that even if pollen gets in, it doesn’t attack it as much and cause me distress with a runny nose and sneezing.”