How climate change affects seasonal allergies in Manitoba and beyond
As pollen season extends with rising temperatures, so too does wildfire season and the smoke that comes with it. And the fires don’t need to be local for air quality to suffer – smoke from wildfires can drift thousands of kilometres.“If you’re burning cars, houses, businesses, there’s going to all sorts of other noxious chemicals in the smoke, and the downstream plume could be a cocktail of nastiness,” he said.
Wildfire smoke has forced Karen Sandney to leave home for clearer skies many times. Sandney has lived with asthma and severe respiratory allergies her whole life. She lived in Gillam, Man., for many years, and has been evacuated and hospitalized twice due to smoke in the area. “We’d start making plans as soon as it starts getting smokey to figure out where we will go,” she said. “There have been times when it was so bad my husband had to take me south just to get away from the smoke.”Although she’s moved to southwestern Manitoba and has not had to evacuate since, she’s constantly on alert, as even the slightest change can trigger an attack.
“It’s not something I’d wish on anybody,” she said. “It can come on so suddenly … I am an air quality monitor. I don’t need to carry one. I can tell.”
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