Chandigarh has got its first pollen calendar<\/strong>. This can identify potential allergy triggers and provide a clear understanding for clinicians as well as allergy sufferers about their causes to help limit their exposure during high pollen loads.<\/span><\/p>\n Pollen is a fine yellowish powder released by plants. They are essential for the sexual reproduction of flowering plants and plants that produce cones. Each pollen grain contains male gametes necessary for fertilisation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Pollen <\/b>produced by plants <\/span>are considered major outdoor airborne allergens responsible for allergic rhinitis, asthma, and atopic dermatitis in humans.<\/span><\/p>\n In India, <\/b>about 20-30% of the population suffers from allergic rhinitis\/hay fever and approximately 15% develop asthma.<\/span><\/p>\n Pollen calendars <\/b>represent the time dynamics of airborne pollen taxa in graphical form in a particular geographical area.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n They yield readily accessible visual details <\/b>about various airborne pollen taxa present throughout the year, with their seasonality in a single picture. <\/span>They are also <\/span>location-specific, with concentrations closely related to locally distributed flora.<\/span><\/p>\n What is the significance of Pollen Calendars?<\/b><\/p>\n Pollen Calendars will help prepare <\/span>early advisories and disseminate<\/strong> them through media channels to the citizens so that they can use protective gear during the period when the concentration of allergic pollen will be high.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It is also a preventive tool for sensitive people<\/strong> to diminish exposure when the levels of aero-pollen are high during specific periods.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u201c<\/b>Chandigarh\u2019s first Pollen Calendar <\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in PIB <\/b>on 6th September 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Chandigarh has got its first pollen calendar. This can identify potential allergy triggers and provide a clear understanding for clinicians as well as allergy sufferers about their causes to help limit their exposure during high pollen loads. What is Pollen? Pollen is a fine yellowish powder released by plants. They are… Continue reading Chandigarh\u2019s first Pollen Calendar can help identify potential allergy triggers and guard sensitive people from exposure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[9097,8698,9575],"class_list":["post-132167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-diseases","tag-issues-related-with-health","tag-pollen-allergy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Pollen?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Pollen and Allergies<\/b><\/h5>\n
What are Pollen Calendars?<\/b><\/h5>\n