Jaén, (EFE).- Olive pollen has skyrocketed in the last 24 hours to an extreme level, with 611 grains per cubic meter of air, according to measurements by the Jaén University Hospital.
The high and inappropriate temperatures of these dates – around 30 degrees in the countryside of the interior of Andalusia – and the lack of rainfall for more than a month and a half have favored the flowering of the olive tree.
The concentration of pon has gone from 170 grains per cubic meter of air on Tuesday (with a red level) to 611 on Wednesday (extreme level). The rest of the species fluctuate between the medium level of quercus, urticaceae and grasses to the low level of cypress, pine or plane tree.
With everything, from the Allergology Unit of the Jaén hospital it is anticipated that this campaign will be between mild and moderate. Although specialists ask allergy sufferers to take extreme precautions, especially in provinces such as Jaén, with 67 million olive trees.
The low productions as a result of the drought have lowered the levels of pollen in the olive tree in recent years. The concentration record is still in May 2015, when more than 19,000 grains per cubic meter of air were exceeded.
The Allergology Clinical Management Unit of the University Hospital of Jaén has resumed daily dissemination this week. From Monday to Friday, of the pollen levels in the province, through its social networks.
Campaign against extreme pollen levels
The allergist Manuel Alcántara, has underlined “the importance of taking the medication in diagnosed patients, so that, once the peak of pollen levels has arrived, they can respond in the best possible way and avoid further damage”.
Salud Responde has also started the campaign on pollen levels. Informing the more than six million users who are already registered in the free application.
Thus, Salud Responde will send messages to the 6,022,111 people registered in the application about the maximum levels of allergens expected in their province.
This information on pollen and allergies, collected in the Salud Responde mobile application, received a total of 53,806 queries last year. In the new version of the free mobile application of Salud Responde, users will be able to find the information in the ‘health information’ section, in Salud 24 horas. EFE
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