Researchers Blame Climate Change For Rise In Allergies
Washington (SmartAboutHealth) – A new study has highlighted the belief that climate change is leading to a rise in allergies around the world.
Researchers from Quest Diagnostics conducted a study that focused on data that consisted of 2 million blood samples.
Each of the samples were from people who sought out a test to see if they indeed suffered from an allergy.
Researchers conducted sampling of this nature over a period of 4-years, and what they found was that allergies are on the rise.
Over the course of the 4-years, overall allergies increased 6%, including a 15% in ragweed allergies.
One other interesting finding was that men were far more sensitive to allergies than women.
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lol, that’s a moronic study if I’ve ever seen one.
Each of the samples were from people who sought out a test to see if they indeed suffered from an allergy.
So, we can state there is an increase in the amount of people correctly self-diagnosing themselves. Or an increase in identifying allergies. The fact of the matter is, allergy suffering has been increasing for over a hundred years in the States. The cause isn’t definitely known, but, I’ve posited the cause to be three-fold.
But first, it should be known what a true allergy is. A true allergy is simply an errant immune system which incorrectly identifies an otherwise harmless material as a pathogen, and reacts to it with an immune globulin. IGe specifically. The symptoms presented are from cellular de-granulation of particular white blood cells, granulocytes. (This is the source of histamine release.) There are more interactions with other WBCs in the whole process.
I posit, immigration, genetics and medical advancements play a large part in the increase of allergies. As noted earlier, the immune system is errant when this occurs. In other words, the immune system isn’t properly familiar with the antigen. Say a family moves to the U.S. from China, for instance. While I presume some sort of ragweed exists in China, I believe it would be of a different cellular signature. So while the immigrant family may posses proper genetic cellular identification of one particular species of ragweed, it wouldn’t posses it of the species indigenous to the U.S. We can extrapolate from there.
More, another dynamic witnessed that may be applied to allergic reactions is the degradation of our collective immune systems. Recently, this world has seen an explosion of inoculations available and given. Treatments for various maladies have been refined. What this means, is there is much less reliance upon our immune systems to correctly function because there isn’t a need. In the past, a person with a malfunctioning immune system would die without passing on the disposition of an improperly functioning immune system. Today, this isn’t necessarily the case, especially in 1st world nations.
Consider our friends to the south. It is often stated when planning a visit to Mexico, “don’t drink the water”. And, this is true if you don’t frequent there. There are pathogens in the water which Americans aren’t often exposed. So we go there, drink the water and get Montezuma’s revenge. But our Mexican friends drink the water and don’t. Why? Because their immune system correctly deals with the pathogens. Ours cannot because it doesn’t have the proper tools trained to fight that particular pathogen.
At any rate, a changing climate would have little to do with it unless it is introducing new antigens. Just my thoughts,
James
Damn……screwed up the italics! Sry. 🙁
Here I thought modern medicine and drug company advertizing is creating more Hypochondriacs. Our transient life styles are probably one of the leading causes with over reliance on excessive medical care in a close tie. When moving to a new region it helps to copy native habits because a city life style leads to problems in the country and the opposite is also true.
lol, To a point, hypochondria is also a problem, everybody seems to think they’ve got something wrong with them, they use it as a crutch for being inadequate, but I assumed the study ruled that out.
There is also the reasonable hypercleanliness hypothesis. We are cleaning more so our children aren’t exposed to bactaria, viruses, other allergens. So they don’t get a small response to those triggers leaving exposed to bigger responses later.
Children are also more exposed to powerful cleaning chemicals plus vapour phase organic chemical from plastic products at an early age with some predictable minor endocrine damage too small to easily measure but big enough to increase increase their susceptibility to allergies and other sickness.