These have been tough weeks for people who suffer from pollen allergies in spring. The Spanish Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (SEAIC) estimates that approximately eight million people in Spain suffer from allergiesand 85% is affected by grasses.
This figure this year may increase since the instability in the weather this spring has caused symptoms are more severe and persistent. Those who are recurring victims of spring allergies, and even some people who have never been victims before, have suffered from allergy symptoms this year, and hope that the season will end sooner rather than later.
When does the allergy end?
This year the spring allergy season is lengthening due to changes in the climate. The fact that temperatures increase or decrease drastically, added to the instability in precipitation, affects plant pollination. That is why this year the symptoms have increased and been prolonged.
Professor Carmen Andreu, secretary of the SEAIC, explained in a press conference last March that the rising temperatures and lack of precipitation They can alter the way plants are pollinated, affecting the symptoms of allergic patients. Due, respiratory diseases such as asthma, allergic rhinitis and conjunctivitis increase. own SEIAC has a search engine on its website that allows you to know what the pollen levels are in Spain..
The Spanish Aerobiology Network (REA) has a map on its website which offers us the possibility of knowing what the grass pollen forecast is for next week. For the next seven days, corresponding to week 23 of this year, the forecast is that grass levels will increase in the northern part of the country:
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Where is spring allergy most intense?
The dates for the end of symptoms depend largely on the geographic area. In it center and south In the country the allergy is more intense than in other areas such as the coast or the islands. Normally at this time of the year the allergy has already disappeared, and it is very rare to continue suffering symptoms at the end of May and June, but this year it is being different.
Although symptoms have spiked in many communities in recent days, experts hope that In the coming weeks, allergy sufferers will see their symptoms reduce until disappearing during the month of June.
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