Symptoms year round: up to 40 % of pollinosis' sufferers in Ukraine are sensitive to allergens of all pollen groups

Abstract

Pollen forecast is important tool for control of seasonal allergy symptoms. It is considered that pollen data can be interesting to up to 30% of European population sensitive to pollen and molds. In practice, people use pollen forecast just at the time when they experience the symptoms. However, among those can be a group of patients, polysensitized to different outdoor airborne allergens. These people experience the symptoms throughout all vegetation season and are potential pollen data users during entire year. The main tree groups of outdoor airborne allergens include tree, grass and weed pollen. The aim of our study was to establish how many seasonal allergy sufferers are sensitive to the pollen of every group and are potential users of pollen forecast during all pollen season.