Climate Change and Pollen Allergies

摘要: This chapter reviews the emerging importance of pollen allergies in relation to ongoing climate change. Allergic diseases have been increasing prevalence over last decades, partly as result impact Increased sensitisation rates and more severe symptoms partial outcome of: increased production wind-pollinated plants resulting long-term abundance air we breathe; earlier shifts airborne seasons making occurrence allergic harder predict deal with efficiently; allergenicity causing health effects individuals; introduction new, invasive allergenic plant species new sensitisations; environment-environment interactions, such hosted microorganisms, i.e. fungi bacteria, which comprise a complex dynamic system, additive, presently unforeseeable influences on human health; environment-human consequence combination environmental factors, like pollution, global warming, urbanisation microclimatic variability, create multi-resolution spatiotemporal system that requires processing technologies huge data inflow order be thoroughly investigated. We suggest novel, real-time, personalised information services, mobile-app risk alerts, must developed provide optimum first line allergy management.