The Price of the Air Even Nice Gates in Guest Pay for the Smoke beyond the Border

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Scientists contend that the PM 2.5 particles are so small that they can slip past the walls of the lungs into the blood stream, and because of the acute inflammation, blood pressure goes up and therefore raises the risk of heart attack and stroke in otherwise healthy young adults who had no previous history of cardiovascular disease.

A thick plume of wildfire smoke from Canada and Minnesota is draping the Commonwealth under a statewide Code Red Air Quality Action Day that virtually guarantees a health risk to all of us if we go out in it. Except for a handful of residents with asthma, COPD or cardiac disease, who have been warned to take it seriously and stay indoors, others are unaware that the air in even the 'healthy' category is suffocating healthy Pennsylvanians.

When the air is classified as unhealthy (AQI >= 151) the health risks materialize in large. In addition to the usual polluters (ozone, carbon monoxide, lead, etc.), PM {2.5} is often the dominant pollutant in 'red' days. The PM {2.5} is so fine it can chemically interact with the tissue lining the body and can infiltrate deep into the lungs, in the micro-environment of the alveoli and cross the blood lungs barrier into the bloodstream.

When we inhale this heavy polluted air, it induces an acute inflammatory response in the airways, which consequently (and as an intuitive result, but one that is not widely known) the airways swell and any lung has to work twice as hard to take in a breath, even if it is a healthy lung. Here's the kicker: Those of us who exercise in high intensity, who are fit, and have a good lung capacity do not feel immune; on the contrary, it is the "fitness paradox" that has people exercising outside in the harsh conditions exposed to a more concentrated and faster influx of these life-threatening toxins into their respiratory tract.

The scratchy throat, eyes burning, cough, all this is tissue damage that is happening at a cellular level. Pulmonary function decreases and the risk of cardiovascular events in the future increases even if you are healthy. For all of our part, the health experts suggest to 'get indoors' and treat this toxic air as a serious public health emergency.