A changing of the seasons often brings with it a new kind of beauty, as trees and plants awaken from a deep winter slumber. And now researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say climate change could be to blame for making nasal and sinus conditions worse.
Dr. Jean Kim has spent decades studying allergies and immunology at Johns Hopkins. And in recent years, she's noticed something: an uptick in the number of patients coming in with sinus and nasal problems.What Kim and her colleagues have found is that global warming is contributing to an increase in the number of people suffering from nasal and sinus diseases. It's also making those conditions more severe.
"What we found was the rate of temperature increase seemed to mirror the rise of allergic disease," she added. An estimated 25 million Americans deal with asthma each year. And 50 million Americans experience allergy problems in a given year. The problem is so widespread that each year, we spend $28 billion on allergy treatment medicines, like nasal spray and allergy pills.
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