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Authorities urging asthma and hay fever sufferers to be vigilant
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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10/4/2024
With the thunderstorm asthma season underway authorities in Victoria are cautioning asthma and hay fever sufferers to be vigilant.
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It's a very particular type of condition that causes these events.
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We're talking about pollen in the air.
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It's linked to a particular type of grass, rye grass, as well as very certain weather
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conditions.
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So things like thunderstorms are a cool change in the weather with high winds.
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Now those winds pick up the pollens, essentially they break them down into small particles
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and those small particles are what you breathe in and essentially cause these asthma conditions.
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Now authorities are warning that this year it is a bit of an average at the moment thunderstorm
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asthma season that we're expecting, but it's really dependent on the next couple of weeks
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and months even in terms of what the weather does and that could essentially change that
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prediction.
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So here's a little bit of what the BOM had to say earlier today.
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The conditions out there, the soil moisture's quite dry, so there hasn't been as much grass
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growth as previous years, but if we do see an increase in rainfall in the next, you know,
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few weeks, month, then we could be heading towards a more normal amount of grass growth
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and so therefore a slightly higher than average thunderstorm asthma risk season.
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So the advice to people, particularly those who suffer asthma and hay fever, is to book
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in and see your GP now to make sure that you have a plan in place.
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If you need any sort of asthma puffer or medication you can get that under control.
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Make sure you're doing that early and don't wait for these high risk days.
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At the moment today it's a green day, it's a relatively low risk day, but you can keep
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on top of the alerts via the Vic emergency app or website.
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They usually have a three day rolling forecast so that you can see what the risk levels are
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and make sure you are keeping your medication on you.
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The best advice on those high risk days for people who do suffer asthma or hay fever is
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to stay indoors.
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Now we do remember back in 2016 there was that extremely bad thunderstorm asthma event
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where 10 people died and thousands of others were impacted and had difficulties breathing.
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So this is something that the health authorities are taking very seriously.
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They're reminding people to stay vigilant, make sure you do book in that GP appointment
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and you are prepared in case there is a high risk day.
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