Thunderstorm Asthma

www.abc.net.au...
'Thunderstorm asthma' reaches epidemic proportion'

'Professor Jo Douglass, an allergy specialist, says Melbourne experienced some very unusual weather conditions in the past day or so with hot weather, humidity and a high pollen count'
"Normally we'd see about a tenth of that in a 24-hour period so you can imagine that's a substantial increase."


I have never heard of this before ,and 10 times the normal admissions is a big increase.
Anyone know if this is a common problem?.

reply to post by 12voltz


Never heard of Thunderstorm Asthma.

I do know that high humidity, high pollen counts and hot weather have always been an enemy of asthma sufferers.

So are saunas and hot showers.

reply to post by 12voltz


I know I have it, whether it's called "thunderstorm asthma" I have no idea, but the weather has been killing me with allergies as of late. Actually, this whole year has been a very bad year for allergies where I live. Hardly able to go outside without popping excessive amounts of allergy medicine or just not going outside period. It sucks because I'm a gardener and felt like my yard was a war zone this year. I'd be outside for 2 seconds and my whole head would feel like a balloon blowing up too fast, about to pop. The past week with the odd humid/hot temp at the end of November wasn't fun. The temp was nice of course, but the stuff floating around not so good. I couldn't even sleep for lack of being able to breathe easily that night.