2023-05-18 08:15:38
Patients aged 70 and 80 who debut with allergic processes are being seen in consultation, which “before seemed impossible”
In the months of April and May this year, the emergency services have detected a striking increase in allergic patients but also of those who are affected for the first time and go to the emergency room with symptoms they had never hadeven crises asthmatics to a different degree.
This year 2023 is being “the worst year so far this century”, because the exaggerated pollinationbreeding ground for the allergiesis a consequence of the lack of rain and rising temperaturesas explained by the president of the clinical aerobiology committee of the Spanish Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (SEAIC), Juan Jose Zapata.
The vice president of the Spanish Society of Emergency and Emergency Medicine (SEMES), Pascual Piera, corroborates this significant increase in allergies, in which the profile of the newcomer is that of a middle-aged patient, between 25 to 50 years oldthat shows respiratory distress and bronchial asthma since when the symptoms are limited to rhinorrhea and nasal congestion they go to Primary Care.
In Spain between 20 and 25% of the population is allergic. The head of clinical aerobiology at SEAIC recalls that in 1991, when he began working as an allergist, the frequency among the Spanish population was 10-15% and that tendency to alza is maintained, so it is expected that affects 50% of the population in about 15 or 20 years.
BRONCHIAL ASTHMA INCREASES IN THE CHILD AND ADOLESCENT POPULATION
According to Zapata, in the “unstoppable” growth of the disease Many factors play a role, not just genetic predisposition, but also contamination and the environment, that the children spend more time inside homes and that they have few brothers.
And the fact, he says, that there is fewer infectious diseases makes the immune system stronger sensible to things that should be tolerated like pollen or expensive
The allergist comments that it is common to find patients who start an “allergic march” as children that begins when they are a few months old and sensitivity special to someone food (like milk), to develop later dermatitis atypical and begin, shortly after, with bronchial processes and crisis of asma.
Zapata makes it clear that “in the genes the possibility of being allergic is written, some develop quickly and others trace that allergic march and the disease pops up at any time in life.”
This allergist comments that for first time is seeing in consultation patients of 70 and 80 years who debut with allergic processes“something that before seemed impossible“.
THE ALLERGISTS ASK NOT TO BANALIZE THE DISEASE
The increase this year in consultations with acute cases it has shot. This has happened, explains Zapata, because of the heatthe decrease by 24% of the water resourcesthe lack of rainy and the advance of polinizacin.
“All the plants went into pollination due to the heat and this produced a peak of cases in April and May with important pictures of asma. And these terrible peaks have caught by surprise to many people who could not identify the symptoms because it was the first time they had them and they ended up in the emergency room,” he says.
And faced with this situation, Zapata considers that, above all, what must be done is do not trivialize the disease and have a diagnosis as soon as possible.
“With a good diagnosis and good follow-up, the disease can be check and get an allergy sufferer to have quality of lifeeven in spring,” he says.
and warns that no one knows what will happen in the next few months “since it will not be rare second pollinationof the grass for example” with another peak of cases and a wave of new processes.
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