chest specialist and former president of Indore Chest Society, Dr Pramod Jhawar, said, ''The number of asthma patients has increased by nearly 10% in the last two years. Almost 35-40 such people visit me every day, whose number was between 20 and 25 till two years back. One of reasons for increase in the number of asthma patients is increased awareness. Also, the number of asthma patients has gone up.'' He said that that the number of patients, especially in children, was on the upward move because of changing lifestyle, less consumption of green vegetables, rising pollution and expanding concrete jungle in the city. As per the health experts, the environment factors including increasing exposure to pollution and allergens apart from western style of living and smoking (even passive smoking) are contributing greatly to the increase of bronchial asthma in the region. According to Dr Vallabh Mundra, another chest and allergy specialist in the city, food adulteration, packaged food, irrational use of colouring agents and exposure to difference of temperature cause allergic asthma among people.
"Consuming food from eateries or regular exposure to allergic agents can trigger breathing diseases," Dr Mundra said. He also suggested measures including wearing helmet, covering face while commuting on two-wheeler, change in habits and regular medication in case one is diagnosed with asthma. The rise in the number of asthmatics correlates with demographic changes in the city. Some of the factors including increased density of population due to migration of rural population and mounting number of automobiles in the city could also be responsible for the rising number of asthma cases, health experts clarified. "There is rapid increase in industrialization and subsequent unabated emission contrary to green cover in cities. Policy makers should seriously notice the problem and find out possible solutions," said Dr Mundra.
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"Consuming food from eateries or regular exposure to allergic agents can trigger breathing diseases," Dr Mundra said. He also suggested measures including wearing helmet, covering face while commuting on two-wheeler, change in habits and regular medication in case one is diagnosed with asthma. The rise in the number of asthmatics correlates with demographic changes in the city. Some of the factors including increased density of population due to migration of rural population and mounting number of automobiles in the city could also be responsible for the rising number of asthma cases, health experts clarified. "There is rapid increase in industrialization and subsequent unabated emission contrary to green cover in cities. Policy makers should seriously notice the problem and find out possible solutions," said Dr Mundra.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/Emission-wrong-lifestyle-make-more-people-asthma-patients/articleshow/12944944.cms
