The season is very difficult for people allergic to pollens. Tuesday May 30, 2023, 82 French departments are on red alert for grass pollen. Find out if you live in a department where there are a lot of pollens.
If some still had doubts, people allergic to pollens will confirm that the pollens are there. Moreover, the National Aerobiological Surveillance Network (RNSA) wanted to alert since 82 departments of metropolitan France are on red alert for grass pollen on Tuesday May 30, 2023. “The risk of allergy will be high throughout France except in the North-West where it will be average.. The beautiful spring weather conditions will promote the emission and dispersal of grass pollen in the air“, can we read in the bulletin. Thus, all departments are concerned except Finistère, Morbihan, Île-et-Vilaine, Mayenne, Sarthre and Orne. The latter are still not entirely spared by pollen since they are on yellow alert.
If the situation is already particularly difficult for people with allergies, it should not however improve in the coming days. In effect, the good weather and the expected wind promote the formation of pollen. In recent years, the pollen seasons have become longer and more intense. “We indeed see more severe cases, more severe symptoms from year to year which can sometimes lead to hospital“, confirmed Sophie Silcret-Grieu, allergist and member of the association asthma and allergies, in the columns of franceinfo.
People allergic to pollen can have serious health problems
She then recalled that “the most severe form of respiratory allergy induced by pollens can lead to severe asthma attacks, either for people with asthma whose usual treatment will not suffice, or for people who start an asthmatic disease by inhaling an large amount of pollen“.