Pollen, Pregnancy and the Predilection towards Poor Health

There are all sorts of external factors which effect us every day. Most of them we won’t even notice and for those of us who don’t suffer from asthma or hay fever things like the daily pollen count will never be important and as such, we’ll never need to notice it. For those who do suffer from these conditions then knowing what the pollen’s likely to do on any given day could well be imperative to not having a nasty reaction. Hay fever and asthma can make it very difficult to function on any given day especially when you’re unequipped to deal with a powerfully negative reaction.

It’s long been thought that pollen levels at the time of birth may have something to do with a child’s likelihood of developing asthma early in life. Up until fairly recently this was largely conjecture and no one was absolutely sure of anything. In a study which was conducted in Sweden it’s been shown that exposure to high levels of pollen in the last 12 weeks of pregnancy significantly raised the likelihood of a child suffering from asthma early in its life.

What this means in terms of treating the condition is fairly unclear but what in means in terms of prevention is becoming clearer. It’s not obvious how you’d achieve it but, if you could keep expectant mothers out of high pollen areas then you’d drastically lessen the chances of their kids getting asthma. This could mean a vastly improved quality of life in general. One way of doing this may be staying inside during high-pollen days but depending on the time of the year and the area you live in this could be almost every day and as such not entirely feasible.

The findings are very recent and as such we’re just going to have to wait and see what happens in terms of advances. Time will tell!