Smoking tobacco makes asthma symptoms are worsening in people with allergies, and worsens the quality of life.In addition, therapies in allergic smokers are less effective.

The word of Dr. Ricardo Abengózar, Allergist and specialist in tobacco addiction, leave no doubt: quit avoiding development and frequency of many allergic, diseases such as asthma and rhinitis ”.

the two most common reasons for consultation in the departments of Allergology of clinics and hospitals are the rhinitis and asthma.The figures are worrisome: while Asthma affects 10 percent of the Spanish population, another twenty-two per cent is troubled with allergic rhinitis. The usual treatment is to immunotherapy, but this treatment has less effect on smokers, which require more intensive therapies with consequent adverse effects.

And finally, something that we already knew, or should know.Exposure to the smoke in children is totally counter-productive, especially during the first two years of life. Cases of asthma are strongly increased in children are common passive smoking; and during intrauterine pregnancy, the smoke has serious negative effects in the function pulmonary.

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