| Are you having problems breathing? Do heart attacks | | | | Then, there are the effects on the heart. Almost any |
| run in your family? Then there may be some extra | | | | problems involved with the heart are going to be |
| precautions you may want to look into when it | | | | rather serious. You could be a lucky and only |
| comes to protecting your health. Things like having a | | | | experience cardiac arrhythmias, but you can also |
| poor air quality in your home can have dangerous | | | | experience far worse problems. Air pollution has been |
| effects not only on your health, but the health of | | | | directly related to heart attacks and cardiovascular |
| your home. | | | | disease. |
| Breathing dirty or polluted air can be very dangerous | | | | Aside from the scares poor air quality can have on |
| and detrimental to one's health. Dirty air could be the | | | | your health, it is not a friendly addition to your |
| direct cause for respiratory problems and other | | | | home's foundation if the cause of your problem is |
| complications in the lungs and heart. These | | | | mould. Mold and mildew will continue to spread if not |
| complications include diminished lung function. This | | | | stopped, and they will eat away at your home's |
| means your longs are going to have to work harder | | | | foundation. The last thing you want is an unstable |
| to get less work done which leads to laziness and | | | | roof and walls when trying to keep your family safe. |
| drowsiness. Also, it is said that side effects of | | | | Not to mention, your over property value is lower if |
| polluted air are very similar to that of second hand | | | | your home is invested by mold. |
| smoke side effects. These ways include the | | | | Fortunately, almost no matter where you live, the |
| infamous coughing, wheezing, and sinus congestion. | | | | chances of these conditions occurring are very rare. |
| More serious problems in the lungs that arise from | | | | With that being said, though, it is something to be |
| dirty air are slowing normal lung growth, damage to | | | | cautious of; The Environmental Protection Agency |
| lung airways, worsening of asthma, and even lung | | | | estimates that 65,000 Americans have problems due |
| cancer. So just by living in a society with somewhat | | | | to dirty air. These dangers are hard to avoid. It is |
| polluted air, one cannot be near as healthy as he | | | | suggested to stay away from high traffic areas and |
| would if he lived in a clean air society. Death is even | | | | areas next to factories, but other than that, the fate |
| a possibility. | | | | of your health is up in the air! |