In a year millions of people die because of diseases due to air pollution. If you are curious to know their names; stick to this article.
Most people have queries that "Can pollution kill us" ? Or what types of disease affect human and plant health due to air pollution.
Keep reading this article you will get the perfect or exact answers of the above-mentioned queries.
We also provide the list of diseases due to air pollution and listed the gases which have health effects on humans.
Through this you will easily understand the seriousness of pollution.
Disease Due To Air Pollution
There are mainly two types of diseases induced due to pollution in air.
First which has less effects on the health and on other hand second type which impacts the human body in a very effective way.
-> Eye irritation:
Eye irritation is most common ailment or disease due to pollution.
In the present fast and busy life we face this ailment very usually.
This is due to the presence of hazardous gases like NOx,O3,PAN and smoke, particulates etc in the atmosphere.
The most usual indication of eye irritation is itching, tears, redness and pain.
Sometime it will also show symptoms like blurred vision and light sensitivity.
-> Nose and throat irritation
The body part which is mostly affected by pollutants is nose and throat, in short respiratory system.
Gases like SO2,NOx, O3,CO and particles of pesticides are mainly responsible for this.
Most common symptoms shown in this is sneezing ,runny and stuffy nose, coughing, headache.
-> Odour nuisance
Odour nuisance is mainly induced due to the manure spreading , kitchen extraction system and industrial activity.
Also due to H2S , SO3, NO2 and hydrocarbons even at very low concentration.
Dangerous for health
-> Asthmatic attack
Natural pollutants like pollen can initiate an asthmatic attacks.
This will bring you into the hospital and help
to get long and costly bill.
The indication of asthmatic attack are wheezing during breath ,coughing ,tightness in chest, increase in rate of breathing ,sweating and anxious feeling.
Pollens are also responsible for disease like hay fever.
-> Bronchitis
Bronchitis lead to chest congestion, coughing, irritation in nose ,difficult in breathing, fever, stuffy nose and sore throat.
It is mainly caused due to presence of SO2,NOx high concentration on the earth.
Basically it is of two type acute and chronic bronchitis.
-> Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular disease is mostly common in nowday people. One of its main reason is air pollution.
Even young people and kids are prone to this disease.
Gases like CO and nitric oxide are mainly responsible for that.
Because CO is two hundred times more reactive than O2 ,and gets combined with haemoglobin in blood and forms carboxyhemoglobin (CoHb).
Thus, reduces oxygen carrying capacity of blood.
This increases the difficulty of heart to pump blood and leads to heart attack.
-> Damaged liver and kidney
Now you might be thinking that liver and kidney don't interact with outside air, how can pollution affect them?
So the answer is due presence of heavy metal like lead in the atmosphere.
Lead enters in body through respiratory tract . When it's concentration becomes high up to certain level, it's dangerous.
It damages liver and kidney. This can bring you very much close to the death. And for avoiding this you have to spend a lot of money.
-> Lung cancer
"Cancer " word itself represents the panic and anxiety.
When you get to know that the pollutions are also able to add this word in your life dictionary, then you will understand the seriousness of this topic.
The most common indication of it are weight loss, pain in brain, shortening of breathe, blood in cough and difficulty in taking breath.
This all is due to the presence of pollution in the atmosphere.
-> Pregnancy and newborn baby
You can understand solemnity of the air pollution.
After knowing that it can affect the humans even before their birth.Indoors, air pollution can affect a pregnant woman and her baby too.
It affects the immune system of baby. It starts weakening it's immune system. It is mainly due to.
According to the report of WHO, thousands of people die due to PM 2.5 every year.
-> Lifespan
According to the latest details, lacs of people die due to air pollutants like pm 2.5 every year.
Through this we can conclude that life span of an individual is decreased due to air pollution.
Because pollution affects the human health, it mainly damages the body's immune system .
Due to which the ability of human body to fight against diseases decrease.
-> Damages red blood cell
This is mainly due to reaction of with haemoglobin which we discussed earlier.
Disease Of Plants Due To Air Pollution
-> Bifacial necrosis
This results in all tissues being killed on both upper and lower surface of leaf.
-> Pigmented lesions
May result with dark brown ,black ,purple or red spots appearing on the leaf surface.
-> Epinasty
The rapid growth of the upper side of the leaves, causing the leaf blade to curl under.
-> Acute injury
Result from short-term exposure to high concentration of pollutants. A sever visible damage of leaf tissues often associated with plasmolysis and tissue collapy.
-> Chronic
Resulting from long term exposure to low levels of pollutant and often shoes up as colour change or Laurel is because of destruction of chlorophyll.
-> Injury
The loss of green plant pigment chlorophyll is called claw releases.
-> Absicisson
It is dropping of leaves. This will decrease the life of the plant.
Necrosis
It is killing or collapse of plant tissues. Tissue injured by phytotoxicants has a characteristic colour.
-> Premature Ageing
O3 increase the rate of ageing of plants. This syndrome is known as premature ageing.
-> Suppressed growth.
NO2 affects the growth of the plants due to which plant is not able to complete life cycle. This phenomenon is called as suppressed growth.
List of diseases due to air pollution
- Eye irritation
- Nose throat irritation
- Odour nuisance
- Asthmatic attacks
- Cardiovascular disease
- Damage in liver and kidney
- Lung cancer
- Pulmonary disease
- Damage of red blood cell
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Conclusion
Through this article you have understood that diseases due to air pollution can bring you to hospital and help you to get a long bill.
It can also affect the human even before their birth.
If can affect immune system which is our ability to fight against the disease, which will be decreased.
Now the time comes when we have to see the air pollution as a pandemic which kill million of organisms yearly.
We have to try to reduce the pollution through which we can live without any threat.
If this problem is ignored by us, it will lead to severe diseases in future. But, this is not the time to worry about this.
This is the time to take small steps towards solution individually. This is because "For every pollution you are the biggest solution".
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