Kids are particularly vulnerable for three main reasons.
, based at the University of California, San Francisco—which is a long way to say she leads an outreach effort in the Southwestern U.S., educating health professionals about children’s environmental health. Plus, she’s a West Coast parent, armed with practical advice for us East Coast parents on navigating these new challenges.
for adults and kids. I focus a lot on kids because of my background and particular interest in them. But we know that a lot of the common air pollutants from industry and traffic, such as PM2.5 or nitrogen dioxide, can cause breathing problems, and problems with growth, and problems with learning and development. And wildfire smoke not only has all of those things, but there’s some evidence it contains other types of pollutants that might irritate the body in even worse ways.
, we discussed how stoves are different because you’re exposed to really high doses of pollutants, but for relatively short bursts of time. So gas stoves are a real concern, but maybe notconcerning as you would think reading about the slew of pollutants they expel, because it’s over quickly. It strikes me that wildfires are somewhere in the middle. You’re exposed to it for longer than cooking, but it’s only intermittently throughout the year, unlike traffic. So what do we know about this intermittent exposure to wildfires and long-term effects in children?That’s a really great question, and I get asked a lot actually about why I do cooking-related pollution work and wildfire work. People comment, not incorrectly, that those seem somewhat unrelated.
Things that you can do include creating a cleaner indoor air space. So if you have central air or central heat, if you’re able to, you really want to get a MERV 13 filter that helps to filter out a majority of these very small particles. If you don’t have central air, or if you have a large space and need some extra on top of the central, you can also get portable air filters. You want a HEPA filter, which are better than the ones that have things like ionizers and electrostatic methods.
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