Why Climate Change Is Making Your Allergies Worse

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When trees, weeds, and grasses want to mate, they release thousands of pollen grains into the air — which can end up in your lungs, eyes, and nose. Special antibodies attach to the grains and summon immune cells to the scene. These release histamine chemicals, which irritate your nose, causing you to sneeze the pollen out. Histamine also causes you to produce more mucus, which helps flush out the grains. Climate change is causing plants to release more pollen, for longer periods of time. So allergies are getting worse than ever.

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Why Climate Change Is Making Your Allergies Worse

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It makes me sneeze Because it's flower sperm

hailie

pollen: *enters eyes*
antibody: *Minding its own business*
another antibody: *sees the pollen*
*a few moments later*
immune system: GO GO GO WEVE GOT AN INVADER IN THE EYES! GO GO
pollen:
immune system: *THIS IS SPARTA*

cheeseburgermonkey

One time I mispronounce the word pollen by accident, people thought I was allergic to Poland (sorry Poland)

laceyrobbins

If we play jazz, the bees will collect more pollen. Problem solved

AverytheCubanAmerican

Wow, it looks like a beautiful day! Maybe I should go outside instead of spending the whole day sleeping and staring at my phone-
Pollen: *bruh you sure?*

TheGreatCooLite

Today's fact: It takes 225 million years for our Sun to travel round the galaxy. ☀️

SciFactsYT

Allergies SUCK. If you don’t have allergies, you lucky asf. Like REAAAAL lucky.

tyronecomblast

Pollen doesn’t just make me sneeze, it also makes me hate the spring

checkmyplaylist

If there is a good outcome from histamine, how come it is safe to use Anti-histamine?

solijay

As a young kid on the way to school one day, my allergy was so bad I had to break into someone's garage just to get out of the open air for a while. I thought it was ridiculous that a person, a part of nature, could be allergic to nature.
Then I found out dogs have allergies. I no longer felt alienated.

porkchopspapi

Thank you for sharing this video. Very interesting topic, because I suffer of terrible hay fever. I've learned something on your video.

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