The weather pushes allergy and asthma miseries to new level.

As one of the hottest summers ever recorded drew to a close, jay Portnoy watched patients stream into Children’s Mercy hospital and clinics in Kansas City, Mo., coughing and wheezing with asthma, 20 admissions per day for the week that started with labor day, he said.

Weather pushes allergy and asthma miseries to new level.