Are you one of the growing numbers of Allergy and Asthma sufferers in the UK?
According to Allergy UK an estimated 15 million people suffer from allergies, 9 million people suffer from hayfever and over 1 million develop a food allergy.
Asthma UK estimates that 5.4 million people are currently receiving medical treatment for Asthma. Of this number 1.1 million are children, averaging 2 children per classroom. Of concern, the UK has "one of the highest prevalence of asthma symptoms for children worldwide". Asthma is considered the most chronic medical condition. On average a child is admitted to hospital every 18 minutes and 3 people die from this condition daily.
The experts suggest that the combination of foreign modern substances, like agrochemicals used on crops, air and chemical pollutants and drugs now entering the body may be significant factors for the increasing rise of environmental allergies. Mould growth flourishes in hotter and wetter temperatures. Ragweed pollen is increased with longer growing seasons. With scientists predicting that the pollen count will double by the year 2040 this is a concern for those people with compromised immune systems.
Developing an allergy or asthma can broadly affect quality of life where the ability to study or work, or engage in sport can be drastically diminished due to functional limitations. Rather than ignoring or suppressing these symptoms, it’s important to identify and remove the contributing causes. Limit suffering and steroid dependency, with their possible long term adverse side effects, by discovering how nutrition and lifestyle modifications can help counteract the harmful impact generated by these residues from weakening the health of the body.