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Hay fever season has returned with the first pollen bomb of the year set to drop on the UK. The Met Office issued its first ‘high’ pollen alert on Tuesday, which covers most of England and Wales .
Farmer's lung occurs because repeated exposure to antigens, found in the mold spores of hay, crops, and animal feed, triggers an allergic reaction within the farmer's immune system. [5] The defense mechanisms of the body present as cold and flu-like symptoms that occur in individuals who experience either acute or chronic reactions.
Allergic rhinitis, of which the seasonal type is called hay fever, is a type of inflammation in the nose that occurs when the immune system overreacts to allergens in the air. [6] It is classified as a type I hypersensitivity reaction . [ 8 ]
Charles Harrison Blackley MRCS (5 April 1820 – 4 September 1900) was the discoverer of the mechanism behind allergic rhinitis caused by pollen, commonly called hay fever. [1] The isolation of hay fever as a condition had been known since 1819 through the work of John Bostock. Blackley was the first to connect pollen to the condition, and ...
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Bostock was a son of Dr. John Bostock, Sr. [2] He spent some time at New College at Hackney where he attended Joseph Priestley's lectures on chemistry and natural philosophy, [3] before graduating in Medicine at the University of Edinburgh [4] and practising medicine in Liverpool.
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