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Storms combined with pollen can make you cough or even cause you difficulty breathing. This is called storm asthma. In recent days, the emergency services have seen an influx of patients.
Over the weekend of June 17, a Paris-based pharmacist saw another flood of patients with very similar symptoms. “We had a certain stock of antihistamines which went quite quickly,” noted Berthe Gosselin. In question, the weather and more particularly the storms, which fell this weekend and last weekend. They caused a particular mechanism: storm asthma.
Asthmatics or those allergic to pollen affected
“It’s really a wind-related phenomenon, strong gusts of wind that bring pollen from the upper layers of the atmosphere down to ground level.“, explains Samuel Monnier, engineer responsible for communication at the RNSA. Among those affected are asthmatics or those allergic to pollen. Many have thus gone to the emergency room, as was the case in Argenteuil (Val-d’oise) .