Life throws up good days and bad days – suddenly & unexpectedly. In the life of an asthmatic too there are good days and there are bad days. The last 30 to 40 days have been bad days ( bure din ) for most asthmatics in north India. Let us try to understand why this has been so and try to learn some lessons from it. Change of season, generally speaking, is a bad time for asthmatics. Many types of pollen and some types of fungal spores are more at the time of changing season. Kikkar or babul tree ( Prosopis julifora ) is one such example.
More pollen means more asthma symptoms for pollen sensitized patients. Every 4-5 years there is a year when the pollen counts are exceptionally high. This year was one such year. Most patients suffered more this year. Patients of asthma somehow assume that “ coldness “or low temperatures have a bad influence on asthma. This may be true for some…
