How to protect your lungs combatting air pollution?
Discover practical tips to shield your lungs from air pollution's impact. From indoor habits to protective measures, safeguard your respiratory health effectively.
Discover practical tips to shield your lungs from air pollution's impact. From indoor habits to protective measures, safeguard your respiratory health effectively.
With an alarming positivity rate of nearing 15 per cent covid-19 has already claimed 11 lives including a 15-yearold boy in the state during the last two weeks.
While speaking to reporters at the state secretariat Nabanna, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said that 150 Covid positive cases were recorded daily on Saturday and Sunday respectively.
Apart from crackers, there are many reasons which contribute towards pollution including, crop burning, emissions of vehicles, and weather patterns.
Laughing is a great exercise to work the abdominal muscles and increase lung capacity. It also clears out your lungs by forcing enough stale air out that allows fresh air to enter into more areas of the lung.
A study by a consortium of US and Japanese scientists on hamsters and mice found those infected with Omicron had less lung damage, lost less weight and were less likely to die than those who had other variants, the Daily Mail reported.
"Our results suggest that patients with chronic lung disease are molecularly primed to be more susceptible to infection by SARS-CoV-2,"
According to the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Steven J Mentzer, a thoracic surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a team of international researchers examined seven lungs obtained during autopsy from patients who died of COVID-19.
The study comes at a time when north India is facing a serious crisis due to rising levels of pollution.
The findings showed that testosterone acts on immune cells that act as first line of defenders of the body against invading viruses.
