Doctors Might Have Been Focusing on the Wrong Asthma Triggers • Hacker News Board

Re: Doctors Might Have Been Focusing on the Wrong Asthma Triggers

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Post by 123123as1asd12 » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 6:24 AM UTC

bamboozled wrote: post #35

mensetmanusman wrote: post #2

I have had asthma my entire life, and it definitely flares up with airborne irritants. There has been awesome citizen science work going on helping people understand the direct link between anything that emits smoke and asthma attacks: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2017.1315 They even found that parents waiting to pick up kids at schools with their ICE engines running increased PM2.5 inside the en…

I've apparently never had asthma in my life, until I moved to Sydney, Australia for a while. It's a city which _loves_ cars. I used to cycle about 20 minutes to the office, the view was beautiful but the traffic was horrendous. I used to wheeze and struggle with breathing a lot more than usual. The doctor diagnosed me with "seasonal asthma" and gave me a ventolin prescription, which I've never felt the need to refill…

I cant live in sydney, I nearly died from asthma when I moved there as a child to live with my father. every time i visited he would have to rent a nebulizer, i have asthma but not that terrible, that place is horrid. I believe its the pollen as well as the cars.

Coastal regions are way better for asthmatics. the dry salty air. gold coast/sunshine coast.

Re: Doctors Might Have Been Focusing on the Wrong Asthma Triggers

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Post by oh_sigh » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC

robbedpeter wrote: post #45

oh_sigh wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the ev has regenerative braking, the brakes actually last much longer than in ICE cars. Not sure how tires are affected but I'd imagine they do have a shorter life, and I'm not sure how the longer brake life balances with (probably) shorter tire life from a pollution perspective

Why would tires last longer in an ICE vehicle? I don't think tires care what makes them spin.

I believe tires last less time in an EV, because of the increased mass. But maybe that isn't the case. I just looked up a comparable ICE to a model 3, got the BMW 330i, and that has approximately the same weight (3500 lbs)

Re: Doctors Might Have Been Focusing on the Wrong Asthma Triggers

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Post by mleonhard » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 7:45 PM UTC

deregulateMed wrote: post #36

MengerSponge wrote: post #6

https://publicintegrity.org/environment/the-invisible-hazard... I imagine that keeping schoolchildren home from those schools would substantially help their respiratory health.

No traffic and no bullying. If kids can learn by themselves, this could change everything. But currently my kid likes unboxing videos and nothing else. School is forced variety and social skills..

Kids are helpless against teams of PhDs turning them into addicts. Your responsibilities as a parent include protecting them from addictive apps. Sell the iPad and buy them books & Legos.