Pollen’s A Piece Of Work And It’s Just Got Nastier

Asthma isn’t a condition you’d want for your children. Not that there really is a condition that you’d actually want them to have. Of all the options though, asthma can be one of the most devastating. It can be very difficult to get a child to fully comprehend the seriousness of their condition and that, if they don’t take it seriously, they could die. Death from asthmatic attack is no-where near as common as it used to be but that doesn’t mean that it’s unheard of. More education on dealing with asthma attacks is needed to make sure that even if your child fails to save his or herself, the adults around them can step in. In a lot of parts of the world teachers are being given specialist training just for this purpose and considering around three kids in the UK die each year from asthma attacks which would have been preventable, this training can’t come too soon!

Pollen is a great agitator of all allergic reactions. Sufferers of hay-fever will attest to this as in the Spring and Summer months it can be a challenge to even stick your head outside without dosing yourself on antihistamines. Asthma is just as affected by pollen and outcome can often be much worse. Of course for an asthmatic patient, simply popping a pill every morning isn’t going to be enough to protect them; they’re going to need to carry an inhaler pretty much everywhere they go to ensure their health and safety.

It’s recently been discovered that pollen can actually be a triggering factor for asthma in the first place. If a lady is exposed to a high concentration of pollen in the last ten or eleven weeks of their pregnancy then their child is significantly more likely to quickly contract asthma. This has been shown in several studies and has widely been accepted by the medical community.
Pollen levels fluctuate year by year and they’re never exactly the same. You can avoid high pollen exposure by trying to stay inside as much as is possible. Talk to your Doctor about other ways to protect yourself from the hidden dangers of high-level pollen exposure late into your pregnancy.