by Jennifer Lance on December 2, 2009 · 4 comments
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Traffic contributes to childhood respiratory problems.
As a parent, there is nothing scarier than when your child has respiratory problems. Coupled with the inability of young children and infants to accurately describe their symptoms because of language development, wheezing causes a lot of anxiety in families. Even more frightening is that “wheezing at age 3, is an early warning sign of asthma and other pulmonary conditions,” according to UPI. New research published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine from the University of Cincinnati (UC) has found that bacteria in dust from traffic and indoor air pollution causes persistent wheezing.
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I’ve written a number of posts on a variety of blogs about indoor air pollution. I fret about it a lot too. If I had my way the Surgeon General would post a warning.
Being Indoors Can Be Bad For You!
Of course that’s true in many ways – but I’ve become a fan of air purification systems, so when I saw a press release on The Goddard School in Buford Georgia putting in an air purification systems, I started thinking…. Where else does it make more sense to have an air purification system than in a preschool.
A no brainer, really. [read the full article...]
Preschoolers exposed to pollutants from gas-powered appliances are more likely to exhibit attention and cognitive disorders, according to a new study from Spain.
The study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, found that early childhood exposure to indoor air pollution, specifically NO2 (nitrogen dioxide), led to lower scores on cognitive tests and was found to affect the child’s ability to pay attention. [read the full article...]
A student research project funded by the EPA is looking in the most unlikely places for triggers to diseases like asthma: furniture cushions.
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Jon McKinney, a junior at Missouri University of Science and Technology, is helping to develop the science of building forensics by identifying the chemical fingerprints of foam components present in common furniture items. [read the full article...]
