Noida / Ghaziabad: Sightseeing or living outside for a long time amid severe pollution is the main health risk, especially among people who suffer from asthma and respiratory disease, said the doctor at night of World COPD (November 18).
Air pollution is one of the main reasons behind chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Dr.
Rajesh Kumar Gupta, an additional director, Pulmonology Department, Fortis Hospital, Noida, said, “Air pollution in Delhi-NCR has reached a worrying rate in recent years.
Severe conditions generally begin before Diwali and take place throughout the winter.
In a few Winter scenario, take a walk and exercise in the open more dangerous than profitable.
It must be fully avoided.
“The doctor also said that there was an urgent need to break myths about inhalers, which some people reported as” addictive “.
Dr.
Arjun Khanna, senior pulmonology, Yashoda Hospital, Kaushambi, said, “COPD patients do not need to be afraid to use inhalers, thinking that they will get used to it.
This is a great social misunderstanding, which is mainly children, even very high and even high.
-Education believers and then they do not use inhalers.
In this way, they increase the risk of lung damage and recovery also delayed.
Thinestating directly affects the lungs and is more effective and also protects from the side effects of pills.
“With an air quality index.
Floating in the ‘very poor’ and ‘severe’ category, the number of patients who reported respiratory pressure in hospitals has increased significantly in recent weeks.
The number of patients has more than doubled over the past five years, according to estimates.
“The number of patients who report COPD and asthma in the Department of Roads we have doubled in the past few weeks,” said Dr.
Gupta.
Yashoda Hospital, Kaushambi, reported the same situation.
“There was a 30% increase in COPD patients compared to last year.
Many of them need nebuliser and some even need hospitalization,” said Dr.
Khanna.
The doctor said that even the younger people now reach out with complaints of difficulty breathing, along with coughing and cold.
Most of them don’t even smoke but have been found to have initial symptoms of COPD.
Previously, this disease was used at the age of 45 to 50 years but now people in their early 30s also fell prey, added the doctor.
Meanwhile, because of the Covid situation this year, the theme of the World Copd Day has been determined as ‘healthy lungs – have never been more important’, with more emphasis which is being observed digitally.