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How to Avoid Asthma Triggers Such As Foods and Pollen

Food is not a common asthma trigger but asthma symptoms can occur as part of an allergic reaction to certain foods. Whole nuts should not be given in any case to pre-school age children because of the risk of them choking, but you should also remember that children with atopic conditions are more vulnerable to nut allergies.

Food manufacturers now label all foods containing nuts, but if you are buying unlabelled foods or eating out, ask about the ingredients. Artificial colorings and additives are also triggers, so try to include as many natural, unprocessed foods as possible in your child’s diet.

If you suspect that certain sweets or fizzy drinks are causing attacks, avoid them. This will not only help you decide whether there is a problem, but also limit your child’s intake of junk food.

Dairy products are often connected with allergies, especially eczema, but you should always ask your doctor’s advice before removing them from a child’s diet. Pollen is very hard to avoid during summer months. The worst time is early summer when so many plants are in flower.

Rain literally washes pollen away, so the pollen count is highest during a dry spell and you may have to be extra vigilant at this time. Get into the habit of finding out about the daily pollen count, and then plan your child’s activities accordingly.

Encourage him to play outside only early in the morning or just before bed when the pollen count is lower. Resist the temptation to bring cur flowers inside the house. Open windows and doors to air the house early in the morning and then keep them closed for the rest of the day.

Do not hang clothes outside to dry or bedding to air when the pollen count is high. If your child reacts badly to pollen, ask his school if he can stay inside at times when there is a high pollen count and when the grass has just been cut. Remind him never to roll in grass, even when he sees his friends doing so.

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What is Super Pollen and Thunder Fever?

Super Pollen and Thunder Fever on Radio 5 Live

Super Pollen and Thunder Fever on Radio 5 Live

Hayfever is a worry for many people around spring and summer time but what if I told you that things could be about to get much, much worse.

Think pollen on steroids.
Imagine all those pollen particles splitting and doubling their misery… it sounds like something from a hayfever horror story.

And it’s real!

I got a phone call yesterday while sitting on the beach in Bournemouth from an unknown number. Ignored it. I’m on holiday so I don’t have to answer and it was probably a sales call. But they phoned again, so I relented, just in case, and it turned out to be a researcher for BBC Radio 5 Live asking me to be on their early morning programme the following day to talk about ‘super pollen’ and ‘thunder fever’.

Super pollen and thunder fever

Super pollen and thunder fever

All I had to write on was this tiny salt packet but of course I said yes, yes yes. I’d love to help out. When they said early they meant early – tune into 5Live and listen back to about 6.38am. I was on the Sunday Breakfast show with Sam Walker and Eleanor Oldroyd – resulting in the usual surnsame banter 🙂 I hope I didn’t sound like I had just been woken up by my phone ringing, because of course they decided they’d like to get me on air EVEN EARLIER so they called me before the first alarm had even gone off (yes I set three alarms just be safe)

So back to the important subject of hay fever.

I am well aware of the conditions that make pollen worse, being one of the approximately 10 million people in England who are thought to have hayfever, but why might we get super pollen and what on earth is Thunder fever?

Why are we getting super pollen and thunder fever?

Recent very dry weather have created something of a pollen breeding ground. The lack of rain has meant that fallen pollen is not absorbed so easily into moist soil and hasn’t been washed away. All those tiny billions of pollen particles are sitting around on patios, pathways and parklands waiting for the warm and balmy weather which will give them a new lease of life.

Thunder and lightening, forcast soon across England due to the humid weather, splits the pollen particles so the problem becomes much worse. Warmer weather coupled with blustery winds will blow those particles up into the air ready to settle in your airways. Are you ready?

What can I do stay safe?

You can never totally escape the pollen, but if you keep up-to-date with any nasal sprays and anti-histamines you usually take and make sure your asthma is well controlled you should be well equipped to weather this storm. But as we all know, there isn’t a widely available cure to hay fever, unless you can afford de-sensitisation treatment.

What you can do is take note of the perfect conditions for this kind of super pollen storm. It’s been dry so lots of pollen is lying around. Very little, if any, rain so none of those particles have been absorbed and washed away. The weather forcasts predict some lovely humid, warm and sunny weather and we are all looking forward to that, but those of you with hay fever should take care.

Thunder and lightening followed by dry and windy conditions could mean we are in for a real pea soup of pollen over the coming weeks.

Further reading

You can read more about this phenomenon here:

Super pollen to hit UK, according to allergy expert

Super pollen warning as stormy weather sends levels soaring and covers UK in sheets of dust

How has your hay fever been this year? How are you coping?

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