Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the air I we breathe when washing dishes, doing laundry, cleaning, etc, and wondering how the small particles from these activities don’t cause damage to our lungs. I know the body has natural systems which filter what we breathe, but wouldn’t even a small amount of chemicals being inhaled cause long-term damage?
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I mean, they do. Air quality, indoor and outdoor, is a significant contributor to long term health outcomes. A whole host of chronic lung diseases like COPD can be linked to air quality.
In fact, a lot of people are happy about the overdue focus on indoor air quality due to Covid. It’s kind of flown under the radar for lots of years given how (relatively) cheap it is to improve and how much of an in impact it can have on health outcomes.
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