Published on June 16, 2024 at 11:11. / Modified on June 16, 2024 at 11:13.
The weather associates with the New Zürcher Zeitung as part of a series of articles devoted to medicine and health. Find all the articles in this dedicated folder as you go.
- Where does the name hay fever come from?
Behind this expression lies the age-old observation that some people, in the presence of a haystack, begin to sneeze. It was therefore long thought that this condition was linked to dried grass. The English speak of “hay fever” (hay fever). “But at the time, the term fever did not only mean an increase in body temperature,” explains Dr. Arthur Helbling, MD, head of the outpatient clinic for allergology and clinical immunology at the Inselspital University Hospital. from Bern. Any unspecified attack on health was called a fever.
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