29th Jun 2010
Pollution and Its Effects
World is going through bad era of the pollution. Pollution is the entering of unwanted or harmful particles in the given substance. By substances I mean water, air, food etc. Pollution is increasing day by day. If you wish to know what pollution is, go out without any cloth on the roads of Mumbai, in one or two hour you will notice the effect of pollution on you. Human is the sole responsible for the pollution which is affecting human only. A very good and known example is ozone layer. We know ozone layer is broken, why? It’s only because of the human’s co2 emission. We all know the effect of breaking this layer; we are getting exposed to the direct ultra violet rays of the sun.
The effect of pollution is very bad on human life. The burning example is the asthma. Today most of the mild asthma cases are young peoples, only because of the pollution. Pollution is affecting the capacity of their lungs. Asthma is a non curable disease; we can only control it up to some extents. A good thing is that we have many home remedies for asthma which works temporary and long term on it. Following are few things we can do if you get an asthma attack;
a) Get the patient to the free air, patient requires it most because free air contains more oxygen and patient is unable to take as much as breathe he normally takes.
b) If patient is using inhaler, get him one in his hand or help him using it. A quick inhaler dose can save his lots of energy.
c) After the attack is over get the patient some hot water or hot tea. Wu long Tea may be very useful for him at this stage.
Asthma is controllable; you need to be more careful about it.
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