With a free app from the University of Eichstätt, anyone can report where and when plants with allergenic pollen are flowering. A risk map is then generated for people suffering
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The pollen season starts earlier and lasts longer. Pollen loads increase even before local plants start to flower. This is because wind currents can carry lightweight pollen across hundreds of
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Pets, especially dogs and cats, can cause allergies. But clearly no one is allergic to the entire dog – just to tiny molecules, for example, on the dog’s hair –
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The number of deaths from a severe allergic reaction has halved in the last 20 years in the UK. With one exception: cow’s milk allergies in children.
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When children with a hereditary risk of asthma eat fish or take fish oil, asthma is less likely to occur in adolescence.
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People with asthma are currently receiving vouchers for FFP2 masks. But from a medical perspective, they are not part of the group of people at high risk from COVID-19.
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