“Thunderstorm Asthma” Spikes ED Visits “Thunderstorm asthma” outbreaks have a history of overwhelming community hospitals and emergency services. Researchers recently conducted a study to determine if emergency department (ED) visits for older adults with COPD increased in the days surrounding a thun...
An Air Quality Advisory is also in effect in the New York area until 11 p.m. Friday. Ozone levels are high, and doctors say those with underlying health issues should be especially careful. "Anyone who has asthma or CPD should generally be on the lookout for increasing chest tightness .....
Department of Medicine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, and a member of the Moderate to Severe Asthma Center of Excellence steering committee, noted that the latest rage is to personalize treatment by "phenotyping" asthma, with the thought being that ...
If a wildfire is strong enough, it can create a thunderstorm. This is known as a pyrocumulonimbus cloud, or pyroCb,according to YaleEnvironment360. PyroCbs are happening more often and in new places. This is likely because the globe is getting hotter and creating stronger wildfires. This puts...
This is a wide, fast-moving thunderstorm storm with strong winds of 90 mph or higher. A derecho blew through Wisconsin in the summer of 2019, causing damagesimilar to a hurricane, according to the Washington Post. How can it rain when it’s sunny?
In this issue, we have seen evidence that thunderstorm asthma may affect new groups of allergic individuals, but will likely remain most prevalent in those sensitized to timothy grass, and we see evidence that birch pollen immunotherapy may provide some degree of immunological protection for people ...
What is a gustnado? These aren’t tornadoes because they are disconnected from a cloud formation. They are “a small and typically weak area of spin on the leading edge of a thunderstorm outflow,” according to Weather.com. Why are hurricanes getting stronger?
A Model for the Determination of Pollen Count Using Google Search Queries for Patients Suffering from Allergic Rhinitis Thunderstorm-related asthma: what happens and why. 16 Clin Exp Allergy 2016;46:390-6. 17 8. Scales D, Zelenev A, Brownstein JS. Quantifying the effect of media limitations ...
Record rainfalls in regional Victoria led up to Australia's most catastrophic respiratory allergy event in November 2016, whenthunderstorm asthmawas linked to several thousand trips to Melbourne hospital emergency departments and ten deaths. But our understanding of how climate change is affecting risk ...
This is a wide, fast-moving thunderstorm storm with strong winds of 90 mph or higher. A derecho blew through Wisconsin in the summer of 2019, causing damagesimilar to a hurricane, according to the Washington Post. How can it rain when it’s sunny?