Kanpur: People, especially those who suffer from one or more diseases, should take special precautions to keep yourself safe and suitable for the air quality index in the adjacent cities and counties are too high which is a health hazard for them.
the city’s air quality index (AQI) was measured by Nehru Nagar Center was 460 at 4 pm, and possibly higher in the afternoon and evening.
Two other NSI centers, Kalyanpur and FTI Kidwai Nagar also showed very poor air quality indexes were 362 and 370.
According to the scientists, AQI between zero and 50 is considered good, satisfactory 51-100, 101-200 moderate, 201-300 is considered as 301-400 marked as poor and very poor while severe 401-500.
These Kanpur AQI floating between very poor to severe, said the report.
Nehru Nagar Center report states that at 10 pm on Sunday, PM2.5 and PM10 both have entered into a severe zone AQI and continue until 00:00.
Then, it increased slightly and shifted to a very poor zone.
Severe zone suggests that it would affect even healthy people and seriously impact suffering from various diseases.
Under such conditions one could face a respiratory disease after prolonged exposure.
Air Quality and Weather Systems and Research has shown that bursting of firecrackers and changes in wind direction are two main reasons for the high levels of pollution.
ON one side had a very bad toxic fumes polluting the air quality after Deepawali festival while on the other hand also enhanced the straw burning carbon content in air quality.
The average value of gas recorded by the Nehru Nagar are: NO2 (116), SO (30), CO (68) and Ozone (19).
All these values ​​are high and not good for human health.
Dr SN Shukla has been suggested that one should use the N-95 masks every time they go out, especially in the morning and avoid early morning walk because it would be dangerous.
The use of turmeric, ginger, cloves, black pepper and mulethi will provide assistance in breathing problems.
They can also use ‘Trikuta’ manufactured by several companies ayurvedic medicine, Dr.
Shukla further said.
The use of warm water also helps in breathing problems, he added.