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Health News Week #13
Researchers at the University of Washington and the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic are working towards solving a new approach to fight asthma due to dust and pesticides in the air for farmworkers kids. In Yakima County, there are higher hospitalization rates due to asthma that has attracted the interest of the university to help solve the ongoing problem. They tested the air purifiers in the children bedrooms to determine if they could help decrease the asthma symptoms. For now, children have received a machine that tests their lung capacity to help reduce the emergency room visits.
I'm curious if the air purifiers helped reduce ER visits for asthma symptoms. There are so many different trigger for asthma- mold, dust, pet hair, and so on. Personally in my house no one has asthma, but nearly every room has an air purifier running at all times to help combat the dust and dog hair/dander. We have to consistently vacuum out the filter and it's shocking to see all the dust that it collects.
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