The environmental pollution It continues to increase and this has associated damage for everyone's health, but especially for children. Cases of asthma, allergies and respiratory diseases have doubled in recent years, according to Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPARATE). And is that 30% of childhood diseases, the most common asthma and other respiratory diseases, have to do with environmental pollution.
According to WHO (World Health Organization), the environmental deterioration due to air pollution has contributed to a greater incidence of asthma crises in the smallest, calculating that said deterioration causes around two million deaths per year worldwide, of which almost half are due to pneumonia in children under 5 years.
Rafael Carrasco, co-director of communication of the Alborada Foundation which is mainly dedicated to environmental medicine warns that if air pollution is not reduced especially in cities, we will have a public health problem and asthma is one of them.
On the other hand, the Dr. Ramón Fernández Álvarez, SEPAR Environmental Diseases Area Coordinator, agrees that road traffic is one of the factors that contributes to the proliferation of respiratory diseases, explaining that it has already been shown with some studies that in areas with more pollution there are more patients with respiratory conditions qualifying that it is not the only cause That causes it.
Every day we breathe pollutants such as nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and ozone that favor the appearance of symptoms and worsening in children with asthma.
Of all these issues the VI International Congress of Environmental Medicine It will be held in Madrid in June 2012.
