Asthma affected by London Plane?

[Beardie]

And to think the poor kid has umpteen years of that to look forward to as she grows up. Getting rid of the trees might be difficult as they don't belong to the family and anyway they are only suspected as the cause.

 

How soon can they move on to a place with no plane trees?

[timbernut]

They've only been there a week! Had been on the list to get out of the old flat for over a year and are so chuffed to finally have a garden. Nearly all the other places they were offered were absolute **** holes in proper rough spots. It's unlikely they'd get offered anywhere else unless they reproduce again!

There's hundreds of planes round Norwich estates like theirs, must be a several people in the same boat.

Thanks for your comments

[Loler UK]

Mr Mrs is a pediatric nurse with a major interest in allergies and asthma (she is a sufferer herself) and has reviewed and conducted research on the matter over the years and as a result i've learnt a great deal from her on the subject myself.

 

Allot of asthma is in fact allergy-induced with different triggers more prominent in different patients. It may well be that tree pollen, maybe even plane pollen in particular is a prominent trigger for her.

 

Your doctor will be able to test her to find out what allergens will trigger the most violent reaction and these tests can have surprising results and can help greatly in trying to limit her exposure to her most pungent triggers. This said even allergy induced asthma can be triggered by irritants to which she is not allergic such as dust, smoke, certain chemicals, traffic polutants, perfumes, air fresiners, cold air.

 

The tests to request if your doctor isn't very pro-active are a simple scratch/ prick test and possibly an slgE blood test. Many sufferers go their whole life assuming their trigger is A and in fact it is B so it's well worth pushing for a complete diagnoses.

 

hope that helps

[Ruskins Trees]

I thought it was the small hooked barbs on the bottom of the leaves of a London Plane that caused the issue, not pollen.

[penfold]

The fact that the leaves are hairy and hold onto air pollution well, which is why they were planted in the first place, which could also be the trigger for your relatives discomfort.

[Stubby]

I thought it was the small hooked barbs on the bottom of the leaves of a London Plane that caused the issue, not pollen.

 

That is my understanding . Hence the irritant affect when chipping in leaf .

[timbernut]

Thanks for everyone's input, they are gonna have to go through a process of elimination, so many things it could be