Climate change is supercharging pollen and making allergies worse
As a life-long allergy sufferer, I can confirm that the last few years for me have been TERRIBLE. This is not good news.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250410-how-climate-driven-thunderstorms-supercharge-pollen-allergies
Seasonal allergy sufferers are being hit with more pollen over a longer season due to rising temperatures, but global warming is also triggering alarming extreme allergy events, say experts.
People could see the thunderstorm, but they couldn't see what was going on inside it. Trillions of pollen particles, sucked up into the clouds as the storm formed, were now being splintered by rain, lightning and humidity into ever-smaller fragments – then cast back down to Earth for people to breathe them in.
It was around 18:00 on 21 November 2016 when the air in Melbourne, Australia, turned deadly. Emergency service phone lines lit up, people struggling to breathe began flooding into hospitals, and there was so much demand for ambulances that the vehicles were unable to reach patients stuck at home. Emergency rooms saw eight times as many people turning up with breathing problems as they would normally expect. Nearly 10 times as many people with asthma were admitted to hospital.
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younger, but about fifteen years ago I began to suffer from them, with it getting worse over time. Today I used three different allergy meds, which would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. (And mine probably aren't that bad compared to many. My former doctor had them so badly he often missed work--that's a medical doctor who had access to the newest and best allergy meds, presumably.)
I'm sorry you suffer from allergies. I never appreciated how awful it could be until I experienced it. It's much more than a few sneezes or a runny nose.
