Climate change, including global warming and increased extreme weather events like heat waves, floods, and droughts has become a global health hazard. There is a direct impact of climate change on respiratory allergies mainly pollen allergies. This article discusses how climate change affects respiratory allergies. According to recent studies, approximately 25% of India’s population suffers from allergic diseases, and out of which one in five people suffer from pollen allergy.
Pollens are the most common cause of allergic rhinitis or commonly known as hay fever. Pollen allergy was once an unknown phenomenon in India but now the number of Indians suffering pollen allergies is constantly increasing. The effects of climate change are quite evident in India. There was an increase in India’s average annual temperature by 0.5 0 c in period 1901-2003 and it is predicted that it will further…
