The Pollen Project

Aim

1. Know if a pollen free home, speeds recovery and improves   sleep                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      after len .

2. Reduce ‘misery’ of hay fever.

Method.

Custom built window/door filter screens fitted Aug 09 with comparisons made of test subject’s suffering of previous, (unfiltered) season.

Location House,

Templeton, Christchurch, N Z. Adjoining park reserve, various neighbourhood gardens including close by Silver Birch.

All encompassed with stock paddocks within 200 meters.

Distant pine plantations and mixed crop, hay and livestock farming across the Canterbury plains from where strong prevailing winds collect.

Subject

Assessed ‘seasonal allergic rhinitis’ (hay fever) starting early spring through summer. Presumed allergic to both spring tree pollen and summer grass pollen. Lower to mid pollen counts able to affect, eyes, noise, throat to the extent of interrupting sleep.



This Information

Purposes to share positive results, and pool information/data with other sufferers. Currently a northern hemisphere pollen season.

Increase knowledge of screens or filters, encouraging building industry to add such product range to window/door accessories.

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.	AUG	SEPT	OCT	NOV	DEC	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR
2009-10 Season	0	2	4	10	20	3	0	0	0
2008-9 season	5	15	25	30	30	30	25	10	5

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Summary Feb 2010

2009-10 clearly a better Season for my subject. Total days of suffering (5/10 and over) dropped 78% from 180 days the previous season to approx 39 days last summer. Surprisingly the severity of single outdoor attacks also dropped by roughly 30%. (see Data Page)

Conclusions Drawn

A pollen free home is beneficial.

My subject enjoyed respite from outdoor attacks and attacks showed less severity. Plans of shifting house to escape pollen becoming unnecessary.

Unconcluded?

The experiment raised further unanswered questions beyond the scope of this privately funded project.

Was my subject’s immune system more resilient by Feb 2010 than the previous year or was the pollen season just shorter due to a much cooler wetter summer.
And did this reduction of overall pollen, cause a corresponding decrease in Immunoglobulin (antibodies) and or the follow through to less histamine. (Inflammatory response).

Were the sight of these big screens, a better reminder to manage other precautions such as medication, vacuuming, awareness of pollen contaminated clothes and hair.

What results would we get if we conducted the same experiment on a broad range of pollen sufferers including the average sufferer who’s mostly affected in mid summer.

What would results look like without medication, still being presumed here to be the first line of defence?

“If proper scientific research were conducted, it might conclude that pollen free respite environments, were equally as important as medication, and where used together would substantially reduce suffering”.


				*The Pollen Project*



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