Allergies Have You Stuffed Up? Nose Fungi May Be to Blame

TUESDAY, Dec. 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- There’s fungus among us, and it might be making allergies and asthma worse.

People with allergy sniffles and asthma have different fungal colonies in their noses than folks who don’t suffer respiratory allergies, researchers report Dec. 16 in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology.

“We showed that allergic rhinitis samples displayed a significantly higher fungal diversity and a different fungal community structure compared to those of healthy controls,” said researcher Dr. Luís Delgado with the University of Porto in Portugal.