In the spring, people allergic to pollen are inconvenienced. Each year, more of them have symptoms. How to explain this phenomenon ? Response elements.
With the mildness of spring, farewell to birch pollen, and welcome to grass pollen. They come to tickle the nostrils of the French who discover themselves more and more often allergic. Visiting an allergist, a young girl is diagnosed with a pollen allergy. This diagnosis does not surprise his mother, herself allergic. “It’s a cold that can last several weeks or several months”, she testifies. Several months, because the winter respite for pollen allergies is getting shorter and shorter.
Global warming blamed
Doctor Madeleine Epstein, allergist, indicates: “Over the current year, in January, we started to have pollen alerts. (…) I saw patients with inaugural asthma, people who had never had asthma in their life .” This situation is explained by the pollination of certain species which begins earlier. This upheaval is linked to global warming which makes pollens earlier and more numerous. For the moment, only 11 departments are at very high risk of pollen allergy. But within 15 days, almost the entire country should be affected.
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