This is what the haze outside can do to your health, and it's disturbing
The haze outside is not only an environmental nuisance, but has an impact on the health of almost all of us.
Here's what it does to your body
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24/04/2022
Sunday, 24 April 2022, 11:13 Updated: 12:16
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The Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Health warned today (Sunday) that there is high air pollution in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and in the north of the country.
The rest of the country has moderate to high air pollution, due to the high concentration of respirable particles.
"From what we already know about air pollution in general, I can say that it not only damages the respiratory system and causes eye irritation, but also damages other organs," explains Prof. Hagai Levin, chairman of the Association of Public Health Physicians at the Medical Association, on the Zavit website. "Particles smaller than 2.5 microns enter the blood vessels through the lungs and clog them.
These particles can reach various organs in the body by the bloodstream and thus cause heart attacks and brain damage, especially in sensitive populations.
"Most of the mortality is due to damage to the blood vessels in the heart that causes myocardial infarction, but the brain is also very sensitive, especially during the development period, so toddlers and fetuses are a particularly sensitive population."
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Risk to people with weakened immune systems
The Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Health have advised sensitive populations - including heart patients, lung patients, the elderly, children and pregnant women - to avoid strenuous physical activity outside.
For the general population it is recommended to reduce strenuous exercise outside.
Full of polluting particles.
Haze in Tel Aviv (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Injury to fetuses and toddlers
"When the pregnant woman breathes the dust, the particles pass through the lungs into her bloodstream, and through it also reaches the developing brain of the fetus, whose development is very complex," explains Prof. Levin. "Blood flow to the brain is impaired and therefore its development is impaired. The composition and size of the particle changes the type of injury and its severity. The exposure time also changes and even the sex of the fetus can be important. There are many factors that can affect and therefore more research is needed."
He adds that the development of the brain continues even in the first year of life and even after, so toddlers are also a particularly sensitive population.
"We know that air pollution impairs the development of the brain and can cause various cognitive disorders and even autism. Although fetuses and toddlers are a particularly sensitive population in this regard, the effect is probably in the whole life cycle. Exposure can affect the visible at any age." Risk but also an opportunity to learn about the effects on health so that we can prevent morbidity and mortality. "
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Headaches
A study conducted at Soroka Medical Center in 2016 and published in the journal Cephalalgia, found a close link between air pollution and complaints of headaches.
It turns out that air pollution that occurs in the spring is the most problematic, and is associated with a 32 percent increase in emergency room calls with headaches.
"It is true that it is intuitively easy to link air pollution to headaches, but to date this connection has not been scientifically proven," explained Dr. Gal Ifergan, director of the neurology department at Soroka and deputy director of the hospital at the time. 2012) and included information on more than 18,000 people who went to the emergency room in Soroka with headache complaints. In total, there were 22,021 inquiries. Most of the applicants (57 percent) were women as well as young people under the age of 40 (60 percent).
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