{"id":1186,"date":"2022-08-12T14:37:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T18:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2022-08-12T14:37:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T18:37:56","slug":"global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1186","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The Journal of Allergy and Clinical<\/em> Immunology had a recent article on global warming and the allergy epidemic.&nbsp; Allergic diseases have reached epidemic proportions globally affecting 30% of the people on earth.&nbsp; Just 20 years ago statistics in the US showed allergy affecting roughly 15 to 18% of Americans.&nbsp; Despite new therapies allergic conditions are increasing in spectrum, frequency and severity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 1970 average temperatures have increased by 2 degrees Fahrenheit and green house gases have increased dramatically (primarily carbon dioxide and methane).&nbsp; Thus, climate change has invoked allergic disease by a variety of mechanisms.&nbsp; The changes in rainfall patterns, storms and winds affect pollination including the length and severity of pollen seasons.&nbsp;&nbsp; Plants produce more pollen with higher levels of carbon dioxide.&nbsp; Pollens are not only allergenic but carry lipid mediators that are proinflammatory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flooding increases ambient mold levels.&nbsp; More severe thunderstorms fractionate (split) pollens and make them more allergenic.&nbsp; Wildfires and dust storms have both local and remote impacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology had a recent article on global warming and the allergy epidemic.&nbsp; Allergic diseases have reached epidemic proportions globally affecting 30% of the people on earth.&nbsp; Just 20 years ago statistics in the US showed allergy affecting roughly 15 to 18% of Americans.&nbsp; Despite new therapies allergic conditions are increasing in spectrum, frequency and severity.&nbsp; Since 1970 average temperatures have increased by 2 degrees Fahrenheit and green house gases have increased dramatically (primarily carbon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1186\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[574],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}