• DOI:10.1159/000023953
Corpus ID: 46754817

Thunderstorm Asthma Due to Grass Pollen

@article{Suphioglu1998ThunderstormAD,
  title={Thunderstorm Asthma Due to Grass Pollen},
  author={C. Suphioglu},
  journal={International Archives of Allergy and Immunology},
  year={1998},
  volume={116},
  pages={253 - 260}
}

C. Suphioglu

Published 1998

Biology, Medicine

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

It is widely known and accepted that grass pollen is a major outdoor cause of hay fever. Moreover, grass pollen is also responsible for triggering allergic asthma, gaining impetus as a result of the 1987/1989 Melbourne and 1994 London thunderstorm–associated asthma epidemics. However, grass pollen is too large to gain access into the lower airways to trigger the asthmatic response and micronic particles <5 μm are required to trigger the response. We have successfully shown that ryegrass pollen… CONTINUE READING

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