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Mora and Sadreameli join Lungcast to provide a back-to-school health blueprint, including topics like rescue inhalers, vaccination, vaping and air quality.

Prepare Your Lungs for Back-to-School with Juanita Mora, MD & S. Christy Sadreameli, MD

Back-to-school season is officially upon the US, as 

 are gradually subsiding and giving way to the mid-August tradition of fall clothes shopping, classroom orientations and the return of routine for students.

Perhaps understated in the annual preparation stage for the first September school bell is the tradition of health planning for many at-risk children. At a time when pediatric allergy and asthma rates are continually rising, there’s plenty of conference between caregivers, pediatricians and school nurses regarding rescue medication, as well as how to avoid seasonal and environmental risks for children this school year.

Asthma and allergic triggers are only scratching the surface of what should be discussed with caregivers leading into the school year, though.

For the August 2024 episode of Lungcast, a pair of allergic and pulmonary disease experts join to provide a blueprint of back-to-school health strategies for children and their parents. Juanita Mora, MD, physician and chief executive officer of the Chicago Allergy Center, and S. Christy Sadreameli, assistant professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, review asthma, vaping, vaccines and more.

Throughout their half-hour conversation, Mora and Sadreameli touch on strategic conversations surrounding pediatric asthma control, immunization updates and collaborative care with school nurses. The duo also delve into trends in pediatric health that may affect classrooms, including Asthma Peak Week, poor indoor air quality, and the e-cigarette epidemic among young Americans.

Lungcast is a monthly respiratory news podcast series hosted by Albert Rizzo, MD, chief medical officer of the ALA, and produced by HCPLive.

Back-to-School Asthma and Lung Health with Juanita Mora, MD and S. Christy Sadreameli, MD

David B. Peden, MD

Elizabeth Cerceo, MD

Lewis Ziska, PhD

Every few years scientists re-confirm, through new research, that airborne pollen has substantial respiratory health impacts and that anthropogenic or man-made climate change is known to exacerbate these impacts by increasing concentrations of pollen and extending pollen seasons.

Studies conducted in both greenhouse and field settings have shown a link between pollen levels and rising temperatures, indicating a need for public health policies and awareness raising regarding anthropogenic climate change's role in pollen seasons.

 Such a shift in the environment is uniquely foreboding as it has been suggested that it can adversely affect human health by contributing to rises in 

 editorial team regularly interviews experts in the medical field with the aim of raising awareness of various health concerns and informing clinicians on such topics. This feature article represents a deep dive into the subject of climate change in honor of Earth Day, specifically in its adverse relationship to allergic disease.

In this video series, 3 experts were featured to discuss such issues and to highlight research on the causative relationship linking air pollution, rising temperatures, and prevalence of different allergic conditions.

The team spoke with David B. Peden, MD, the Harry S. Andrews professor of pediatrics, medicine and microbiology/immunology and associate director of the Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma & Lung Biology at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine. We also interviewed Elizabeth Cerceo, MD, associate internal medicine program director and the director of environmental health in the division of hospital medicine at Cooper University Health Care.

Lastly, we spoke with Lewis Ziska, PhD, an associate professor of environmental health sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and the Climate and Health Certificate Lead. Ziska, Peden, and Cerceo each are leading experts in their fields and have contributed their views and research on this topic throughout their careers.

Given the surge of interest around the dangers of anthropogenic climate change and the rising incidence of allergic diseases in industrialized countries, these 3 interviews posted above highlight several key topics regarding new research, public health needs, and changing perceptions regarding humanity’s shared impact on the health of the planet.

Here are several notable quotes from the 3 interviews on the topic of climate change and its effects regarding allergic conditions.

On Pollution and Its Impact on Climate Change

What's pretty clear is that manmade air pollution is a singular driver to the changing climate that we're seeing now. The carbon footprint is essential and it becomes a cycle. What happens is that as you have man-made pollutants, you change climate, you have you have a warmer climate, and that changes the likelihood that pollutants are going to be produced, then you're going to get more pollutants, that then changes the climate, so it becomes a little bit of a cycle…Fossil fuel, combustion, is clearly the most significant driver of climate change that we have.

There's really two prongs to it. When we combust fossil fuels, it both releases the greenhouse gasses that accelerate climate change and global warming. Then there's the direct effect from all of those pollutants, those things that we breathe in, that we eat, and that we consume. All of those have impacts on our health and wellbeing.

The (Environmental Protection Agency) has designated 188 hazardous air pollutants, and these are known bad actors. These are things like acrolein, benzene, cadmium, mercury, and we know that these are not good for our health. Then there's the criteria air pollutants and those are 6 things that affect more broader air quality. Those are things like particulate matter, 2.5, or PM2.5. Things like ozone, oxides of nitrogen, sulfur dioxide, but it also encompasses lead and carbon monoxide.

Right now, there are efforts to try and address what's happening in regard to fossil fuel emissions and efforts in regard to public health, but very little at the governmental level. I think if you looked at all of the money that the National Institute of Health spent in the last 3 years on average each year, they're spending about $12 million. That's a million, not a billion. So these issues related to the climate and health are obviously important, and pollen is just one aspect of that. But you can look at air quality, you can look at heat stress. There's so many more aspects of this that we just don't really have a full grasp on yet. I think there's a lot more that we need to know.

On Climate Change's Effect on Pollen Allergies

 What has happened is that as you have a warmer climate, 2 things occur. One, the pollination season is longer, so in the American northeast, what used to be a relatively robust but brief pollen season now has spread out several weeks longer than it used to be. That's all because you have mild falls, milder winters, and it goes into spring. So spring kind of begins earlier and it lasts longer. You end up having a longer time for plants to pollinate.

The most robustly-studied of those is ragweed and ragweed pollen. But in fact, tree pollen also behaves much the same way. Birch has been studied in Europe. Basically, any flowering plant that requires airborne pollination. In flowers that require insects, that pollen is usually not the issue. But airborne pollination really is the problem.

 If we dial in on allergies in particular, allergies are a huge problem. Globally, about 30% of adults and about 40% of children have allergies, nasal polyps, and it's projected that by 2050, there's going to be 4 billion people with allergies. There's a lot of reasons for that. First, with climate change and global warming, we see at higher temperatures that these allergenic plants flourish. They go into regions where they weren't before. They have longer growing seasons and there's earlier springs.

Cerceo, Peden, and Ziska joined HCPLive to speak on the imminent threat posed by climate change, highlighting the impact especially on individuals with allergic disease.

A Rising Tide: The Impact of Climate Change on Allergic Disease