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Asthma from air pollution completely destroyed my life, that's all my life is about at this point. The first signs are that it's harder to sleep at night, beca
by xiphias2 6y ago
Asthma from air pollution completely destroyed my life, that's all my life is about at this point.
The first signs are that it's harder to sleep at night, because the mucus goes into your airways. If you feel that, move away far from any street with many cars while you can.
- GordonS 6y agoI suffered from asthma as a kid, bad enough to put me in hospital. As I got older, it just kind of disappeared - by the time I was 15 or so, I was only very rarely using inhalers. As an adult, I've travelled a lot to India for work, always staying in big cities, which are filled with 2-stroke rickshaws and are always heavily polluted (e.g. Mumbai, Pune, Delhi). Often a kind of horrible, acrid, thick smog descends after dark when the temperature drops a little. Every time I travel to such places, I have to take my inhalers because I really feel the effects of it! The first time this happened, years ago now, I was really quite shocked - how many deaths must this cause? How could the government allow this, and how could people stand it?
- xiphias2 6y agoJust don't travel there. It's not worth it. Talk to your boss about your asthma, and work harder remotely if you need to. I was more lucky with investments so that I can now pay to live in places with clean air, but I don't have social life anymore, as clean places are usually the less fun places.