Department of Pediatric and Neonatology, Cernusco sul Naviglio and Melzo-ASST Melegnano-Martesana, Milan, Italy.
Department of Pediatrics, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2020 Nov;31 Suppl 26:26-28. doi: 10.1111/pai.13362.
Respiratory allergies are known to affect people all over the world. Environmental factors related to pollution play a significant etiopathogenic role in this regard. Polluting sources are industrial activities and urban traffic, capable of generating various types of pollutants that trigger inflammatory, direct, and indirect damage to tissues, promoting allergic symptoms, even serious ones, and interfering with the pharmacologic response. They are also able to modify pollen, promoting allergic sensitization. Pollution could have played a significant predisposing role in the ongoing morbidity and mortality of SARS-CoV-2.
呼吸道过敏症是一种常见的疾病,在全球范围内影响着许多人。环境污染因素在其中起着重要的作用。污染源包括工业活动和城市交通,它们能够产生各种类型的污染物,引发组织的炎症、直接和间接损伤,促进过敏症状的产生,甚至导致严重的过敏反应,并干扰药物的治疗效果。此外,污染物还能够改变花粉的性质,促进过敏的发生。在 SARS-CoV-2 持续流行期间,污染可能在发病率和死亡率方面起到了重要的促成作用。