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#asthma

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Let me just say this...

If a dust storm arises around your area, and you have asthma or COPD, check the air quality and your O2 regularly.

I should have worn a mask during the storm but I did not.
Just had to nebulize hours after the storm had passed.
(And thank heavens my pulmonologist keeps me prepared with meds for these kinds of events.)

One of our heat pump installers had an asthma attack yesterday and had to spend the afternoon at home.

Please, if you have #asthma, make sure you carry an in-date inhaler and a written treatment plan agreed with your asthma nurse. Asthma kills four people a day in the UK. It can strike without warning and it's seriously frightening. The worst asthma attack I ever had came out of the blue six months after my first dose of #Covid. #Ventolin just bounced off it and didn't help at all. I never want to go through that again.

Fortunately, the heat pump installer came through this attack and, today, she's as right as rain.

This morning there was a bail hearing before Judge William Sessions for #Tufts student #RumeysaOzturk at a Vermont federal court. #Ozturk attended via Zoom from a #detention center in #Louisiana.

Ozturk testified in support of her release. She discussed her #humanitarian work related to child development & her increased #asthma attacks since detention. She also said Tufts has offered her housing should she be released.

The #Trump #DOJ declined cross-examination.

Heute vor 5 Jahren, nach dem ersten vom #Bundesrat & #SRG / #SRF ausgerufenen Ende der #Corona-Pandemie, habe ich mich bei Handwerkern mit #Corona angesteckt. Obwohl wir uns, wie vom #BAG empfohlen, die Hände wuschen und sogar 2m Abstand hielten.

Was folgte waren 12’000 Franken Arztrechnungen, 3 Monate Krankschreibung und 1,5 Jahre krank mit Teilzeit. Zurück blieben #MCAS und #Asthma. Verlorenes Vertrauen in Medien & Ärzte und ein verständnisloses soziales Umfeld.

#Aufarbeitung
#LongCovid

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Breathing in these #pollutants is linked to a range of adverse #health effects. For instance, long- & short-term exposure to particulate matter is associated w/ #HeartAttacks, #strokes, #asthma attacks & premature #death, according to the #EPA.

The program also aims to curb regional #haze, which forms when sunlight encounters tiny #pollution particles in the #air. Over the last several decades, regional haze has reduced #visibility at scenic viewpoints in #parks nationwide.

Wildfire smoke linked to rise in ER visits for asthma: study
A new study says visits to emergency departments for asthma spiked during a first wave of unprecedented wildfire smoke in 2023, but patient numbers returned to normal during a second wave weeks later. The researchers say the first wave may have served as a wake-up call so people learned to protect themselv...
#health #weather #study #Canada #Asthma #ER
globalnews.ca/news/11164131/wi