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Without making a sound, your lungs are continuously working to keep themselves clean. Unfortunately, a few normal things that we do in our homes are spoiling air quality and the tiny enemies are taking over lungs. Since they are so tiny, you can't see or feel them at first. Over time, they wear down the beautiful pink lung tissue until the day you realize that you are catching your breath after walking to the mailbox. These are the sneakiest daily habits that gradually do this damage. Let us go through them with Punarjan, one of the best cancer treatment hospitals.
And is it because you are sleeping on a dust-mite playground every night?
Dust mites have a home in your pillow and mattress, as it is warm, a bit humid and contains dead skin- an ideal meal of dust mites. Dust mites are minute organisms and worse, they secrete within your bedding and every time you turn them the excretions develop into dust, which is thrown into the air. You take it in while breathing during sleep, and the particles enter deep into the smallest air sacs in your lungs. There, immune cells that are in the lungs recognize the dust mite excrements as an enemy and hence they start fighting them. After years of this war in which the tissue gets fighting scars, the air sacs become like turning soft sponge into hard plastic i.e. scarred and stiff. You wake up with a blocked nose not knowing the reason.
Do you feel that perfume or air freshener is a hug for your lungs?
This good odor which is coming from the plug-ins that are used on fabrics, perfumes, and sprays is due to chemicals called volatile organic compounds. Aerosol minute droplets can be suspended for hours. Your lungs intake them as they do with any other air. In the breathing tubes, these chemicals, after they bind with the wet lining, destroy the small hairlike structures (cilia) which are responsible for the removal of dirt and are the ones that push out the dirt. The death of these structures means that mucus and dust are trapped. Over time, the lining gets inflamed and thicker and every breath is a little harder.
Does your nonstick frying pan quietly emit invisible smoke?
An empty non-stick pan heated too high or scratched off gases fumes most of us can't smell. The particles that they carry are so small that they can get beyond nose and throat defenses and can reach the deepest parts of the lungs. There, the same damage is caused as in the case of smoke inhaled by firefighters; the air sacs lose their stretchiness and become stiff scar tissue. Many people never connect the Sunday omelette to the cough that starts years later.
Are you cleaning your house with products that clean the air out of your lungs?
Bleach and ammonia and "pine fresh" cleaners all mix into gases that irritate the lining of your lungs the instant you breathe them in. The cells making that protective slippery layer get burned and peeled off. When too many get peeled off at once, raw patches form. Your body rushes to repair them, but repeated burns leave permanent thick scars. If you clean houses for a living, often your lungs will age twenty years faster than the rest of your body.
Do you spend more than some hours in a dry, stuffy car or office air that is being pumped back?
The moisture in the air is removed by heat and air conditioning units. Dry air makes the mucus in the lungs thick and sticky whereas it is supposed to be thin and slippery. The small hairs that do the cleaning cannot move the sticky mucus, thus germs and dust have more time to settle there. Gradually, the breathing tubes become clogged and swollen. A lot of office workers that suffer from allergies themselves, say that their symptoms are caused by allergies, however, dry air is actually the one that is turning their lungs into a dusty highway.
Is it actually completely safe to breathe the vape clouds that other people create?
It converts the vape liquid into very small particles that reach deeper into the lungs than cigarette smoke. In the tiniest air sacs, these droplets coat the walls and prevent proper crossing of oxygen into the blood. Flavor chemicals will also wake up sleeping repair cells and turn them into scar-making cells. The young people who never smoke and are thus passive, but take the vape clouds of their friends, are quietly developing the condition of stiff lungs well before the age of thirty.
Then what can you do today to let your lungs rest?
Open the windows even if only for ten minutes each day, change your bedding in hot water weekly, heat pans with oil that is already in them, use vinegar and baking soda for cleaning, put a bowl of water near the radiator, and go outside if someone is vaping nearby. Your lungs will be very willing to forgive once you stop the daily insults. They're tough, but they work better when you treat them like quiet friends. They are not like garbage cans for invisible dust and chemicals. Small changes now keep pink tissue pink for decades longer. Breathe easy on purpose. See more about cancer awareness at www.punarjanayurveda.com.
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