Air Pollution And Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

There is nothing harder than watching patients, young or old, struggle with very breath, often requiring nasal oxygen twenty-four hours a day. This is the case in those with chronic obstructive pulmonary-disease (COPD), which includes emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and bronchiolitis. These patients are hardly able to exert themselves at all find that their pulmonary disability greatly hampers their joy in living. Not everyone is able to make a conscious choice to live in a healthy environment, but prevention weighs heavily in the mind. Here again, it is not the years…