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