About AllergyNest

AllergyNest is a US allergy information site. We publish pollen forecasts for US metro areas and plain, sourced guides to allergens, from oak pollen to peanuts.

What you’ll find here

• Pollen forecasts for 131 US metro areas. Each metro has its own page under Pollen, and the home page shows a national view. The levels come from the Google Pollen API. They are a modeled index from 0 (None) to 5 (Very high), not measured pollen counts. We fetch new values for each metro twice a day. We cover the 48 contiguous states and Washington, DC, but not Alaska, Hawaii or Puerto Rico.
• 40 allergen guides. Under Allergies you’ll find guides to tree, grass and weed pollen, molds, indoor allergens, animals, insect stings, foods and contact allergens. Each guide explains what the allergen is, the symptoms it causes and when to see an allergist.

Each state also has a pollen page, and Pollen near you finds the nearest metro from a ZIP code or your location. You can already sign up for pollen alert emails, and we’ll email you when the alerts start. Our allergist directory lists doctors with an allergy or immunology specialty from public federal records. Doctors and their practices can claim their listing for free. We also plan to add a news section.

Who runs AllergyNest

AllergyNest is operated by Faz LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company.

Our editor is Ara Ohanian. He is a parent of two children with allergies and has spent seven years working with US allergy clinics and allergists on growth, patient outreach and allergy data. He is not a doctor or a clinician. Ara is responsible for what we publish.

How we work

• Every claim cites its source. Our guides are drafted with the help of AI from sources such as US government agencies, peer-reviewed research, allergy organizations and university extension services. Every claim is then checked against the source it cites, in separate AI fact-check passes that open each source, and links to it as a numbered note. Each guide shows the date it last changed.
• Modeled data is called modeled. Our pollen levels are estimates from Google’s model, and they can be wrong. We label them as a modeled index and never call them a pollen count.
• No treatment advice until a clinician has reviewed it. We don’t publish pages about treatment, medicines or dosing until a clinician has reviewed them. No page on the site has been reviewed by a clinician, and every guide says so.
• We don’t track visitors. Our pages set no cookies and load no advertising or tracking scripts. We count visits with our hosting provider’s visit counter, which identifies no one and shows us only totals. Our hosting provider also keeps request logs to deliver and protect the site, as our Privacy Policy explains.

How we make money

Today, we don’t. AllergyNest has no ads, no affiliate links and no sponsors.

We may later add advertising, sponsorships, affiliate links or paid placements in the planned allergist directory. If we do, they will be clearly labeled and will have no say over our editorial content. Our advertising and affiliate policy sets out the rules.

Independence and Aragil

Ara also runs Aragil, a marketing agency that works with allergy practices. Aragil is a separate business. Aragil clients get no special treatment in our editorial content or in the order of any directory listing. If we name or feature an Aragil client, we disclose the relationship.

Our policies

• Editorial policy: how we choose sources, make our guides and keep them independent.
• Corrections policy: how to report an error and what we do about it.
• How we use AI: the part AI plays in making our guides.
• Data sources: where our pollen data and our list of metros come from.
• How the pollen index works: what the 0 to 5 levels mean and where they come from.
• All policies: terms of use, privacy, our medical disclaimer, accessibility and more.

Contact

Email us at hello@allergynest.com. Our contact page lists subject lines that help us route your message. We can’t give personal medical advice, so for questions about your own health, please talk to a doctor or an allergist.