Abstract
There are a large variety of plants belonging to different families in the Elbasan region, Albania. Some of them are of a high medicinal value, some are honey plants and some others are nutritive, forage and spontaneous. An important place in this variety of plants take the one with allergic pollen which cause irritation of airways in persons who are susceptible to allergic factor, including representatives of the Gramineae family. In this study are featured the allergic cases of 251 patients for the period from January 2018 to December 2019. Results were obtained after allergy trials with 8 herbal allergens of the Gramineae family [Avena sativa (oat), Cynodon dactylon (bermuda grass), Dactylis glomerata (cock’s-foot), Hordeum vulgare (barley), Phleum pratense (timothy grass), Poa pratensis (meadow-grass), Secale cereale (rye) and Triticum aestivum (wheat)]. The study found that in 72 patients, Phleum pratense pollen is the main cause for allergic disease; the most affected age group by pollen grains of Gramineae family is 21 to 30 years, the male gender is most affected by pollinosis and allergic diseases are encountered most in urban areas, with 141 cases. The study was accompanied by photos of the plants in the habitat where they were found, by photos of pollen grains as well as graphs showing the variability of allergic morbidity between age groups and gender.
Highlights
Pollen grains such as aeroallergens have been well studied around the world and are an important cause of allergic diseases
The development of civilization which leads to environment pollution and overcrowding of urban areas often, stimulates the sharp increase in the number of people affected by allergic diseases
Kallajxhiu et al / GSC Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2020, 11(02), 334–340 region (Albania), it was found that 80 cases of allergic diseases were caused by pollen of representatives of Gramineae family [6]
Summary
Pollen grains such as aeroallergens have been well studied around the world and are an important cause of allergic diseases. Many studies show that representatives of the Gramineae family are among the leading causes of various allergic diseases [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. Kallajxhiu et al / GSC Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2020, 11(02), 334–340 region (Albania), it was found that 80 cases of allergic diseases were caused by pollen of representatives of Gramineae family [6]. From the analysis of allergy cases in the Elbasan region (Albania) for the years 2004-2008, males were more affected than females [18] and for the period from January 2018 to June 2019, 217 allergic patients were males and 157 were females [7]. The layer of exine is mainly granular [6, 21, 22]
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