Inhaling the Pollution
Ashu (26) basically hails from Himachal, recently
for his job he had to move to Delhi. Soon after joining the days started being hectic and weekend started leisure,
with long party nights, and lazy days.
Exercising went out of routine, waking at 7 am, hurrying to office and reaching back home at 8 pm, left time only for dinner from the whole day. The life became busy.
It was 16th day of October of 2018, the morning he wake at 6:45 am the usual
time, went on the terrace, within no time he was left with continuous sneezing,
which stopped in some time, leaving behind the running nose. Ashu managed to
make himself a tea with Laung, Kalimirch, tulsi patta, adrak and so
on... for time being he got relief and went to office.
Whole day he worked
heavy headed, and went early to sleep tonight. Sleeping with slight running
nose and itching throat, in early dawn (at approx 4:30 am), he felt suffocating,
not able to breathe, even on deep forceful inhalation, he was breathless and
restless, he woke up and felt that it was due to less ventilation in the room,
he rushed out on terrace, and felt burning smell all over, which was much
suffocating, but the cool breeze relaxed him a bit.
After keeping awake for an
hour and feeling relaxed, he went back to sleep, a sound sleep for about 2 more
hours, with a whistling respiratory sound in silent room with AC and fan
switched off. He woke up late, he
could feel sore throat and running nose, after suggestion from a medico friend,
he took citrizine and azithromycin for 3 days. He felt better and
recovered.
Lets review the series of events that happened to Ashu...
Central pollution control board and state pollution control board monitor the level of pollution / particulate matter in the air. The higher the AQI, the bad is air quality to breath in. Delhi and most other metro cities are polluted to a level that air remains of poor quality round the year. Reports of 2017 from CNN suggested that breathing in Delhi was equivalent to smoking 44 cigarette.
So taking into consideration, the air quality index, it was of 'poor' level/category in Delhi on 16th oct 2018, and that worsened to 'Very Poor' on 17th Oct.
We will continue this discussion with focus on following...
What is pollution?
What are allergens?
How does it affect our respiratory process?
What precautions can be taken to prevent respiratory disease
in such environment?
Home remedies for prophylaxis/ cure/ treatment
Preparedness to fight from respiratory diseases
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Interesting update...need to know more👍
ReplyDeleteWe are are suffering from these..plz let us know hiw can we prevent and cure these
ReplyDeleteAn interesting and worth a read.
ReplyDeleteNice update..thanks for sharing..!
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