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The term has recently been coined “Thunderstorm asthma” after real micro epidemics of asthmatic attacks were observed by scientists, concentrated during and after thunderstorms, in the flowering period of the most allergenic plants and in people who particularly suffered from these allergies.
Who hits
In recent scientific literature cases of this type have also been reported in our country. Symptoms appear in allergic patients, especially to the parietaria, the grasses and the olive tree. Sometimes these people are not affected by severe asthma, but mild and in any case not well controlled by therapy.
Therefore, the first point to highlight is to always define the therapy with your doctor and follow it well, therefore having the right adherence to the treatments.
The causes
In the case of thunderstorm asthma, the appearance of respiratory symptoms made the experts think that there was a sort of invisible breakdown of the pollen and that therefore the particles released inside them containing the allergenic molecules were able to enter more deeply into the airways. respiratory tract, causing asthma. Recent research has reproduced in the laboratory what happens to pollen in the event of a storm, confirming this hypothesis through molecular analysis.
With a thunderstorm, the pollens break and form fragments of 2-4 microns that contain the allergenic molecules and are able to penetrate more deeply into the respiratory tract due to their small size.
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