Mélina Facchin (in Strasbourg), edited by Gauthier Delomez 8:14 p.m., March 01, 2023
Almost all of France is on red pollen alert.
An allergy that can be identified with a scratchy throat, or a runny nose.
Europe 1 went to a pharmacy in Strasbourg to take stock of this allergy, which has affected the Grand Est region since mid-January.
It's an allergy that points the tip of his nose in advance.
At the beginning of March, with the exception of a few departments in the north and north-west, all of France is already on pollen red alert, and each year more and more people are subject to it.
Europe 1 went to a pharmacy in Strasbourg to meet French people upset by this allergy.
This is the case of Jean-Brice: "I have an itchy nose, sometimes itchy ears too, and reddened eyes", he lists.
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"Sometimes, it happens to me to have trouble breathing, I have developed asthma", continues this Strasbourg resident.
"But I have my medication. As soon as it starts again, I take it," he says.
“More and more prescriptions”
In the east, the culprits of these allergies are alders and hazel trees.
And this year, this wave is particularly early.
"It's getting earlier and earlier," says Lisa, pharmacist, at the microphone of Europe 1. "We have had more and more prescriptions in the last two weeks for pollen-related problems," she says. .
Generally, Lisa gives "antihistamines, classic allergy medications, but also all symptomatic treatments: nose spray, eye drop..."
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The pharmacist interviewed by Europe 1 estimates that there are twenty or even thirty prescriptions which specifically concern an allergy to pollen per day in her pharmacy.
And then draws up the profile of the patients: "There are a lot of people confronted with allergies who have never experienced them before, and of all ages", she says.
The Grand Est has been on red alert since mid-January.