People with allergies can be seen suffering everywhere. Sneezing, sinuses and stuffed-up noses are common with allergies hitting hard and early in Tucson this year.

The weather in Tucson makes it so that allergies can persist throughout the year.

Fox 11 News headed to the University of Arizona near two of the culprits of allergies in our area.

Many people think flowers cause bad allergies because they actually do. The pollen emits allergens into the air, although looks can be deceiving.

Dr. Michael Daines from the University Medical Center says, “If you can see a flower, it’s not a problem for your allergies. It’s the flowers that are too small for you to see that cause the problems.”

Fox 11 learned that Mulberry trees, Olive trees and Bermuda grass are some of the worst plants for people with allergies.

March is considered a big month for allergies in Tucson so if you have them, be prepared to sneeze.

“I go through boxes of Kleenex, rolled toilet paper, whatever I can use, paper towels off the rack. It’s a pain in the butt,” Tucson resident Ilias Glenis said.

Alfred Biondo, who also lives in Tucson, says he is forced to clean his room every night.

“I don’t like cleaning,” he says.

Biondo has lived in Tucson 14 months and for the first time says, “It gets bad enough to where I can’t breathe.”

He says he has to sleep in a different room than his wife because his allergies are that bad.

“This is everything I’m takin’,” Biondo said. “Benadryl, Sudafed, Actifed, Dymatap, Allegra. I’ve taken every over the counter thing that they offer in Tucson.”

He says nothing has worked and he may start taking allergy shots again. Biondo took them in 1989 and was eventually cured of his allergies, and then he came to live in Tucson.

“I feel it’s a matter of survival cause if I’m gonna get a good night’s sleep I have to have a clean room or I can’t breathe,” Biondo says.

Since it has not been fully determined why people get allergies, many who suffer from them will have to do what they can.

Dr. Daines says, "More people are going to have to deal with the current treatments as they are right now which are oral antihistamines, nasal steroids and allergy shots for people that need to get them from their allergists.”

Over 20 years ago, Pima County enacted a pollen control ordinance that prohibits the sale or planting of Mulberry and Olive trees and requires that Tucson residents mow their Bermuda grass frequently.