Tips for Asthma Sufferers in Summer Heat
High temperatures, thick humidity and increased ozone pose a higher health risk to people with asthma.
We're on day three of stifling heat and high humidity with a long summer of heat ahead. Those with asthma are at risk of medical compliations from an increase of heat and humity, according to a Rutgers University professor. Leonard Bielory, an allergy specialist at the Rutgers Center of Environmental Prediction at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, offered the following tips for asthma sufferers: “More than 90% of pediatric and half of adult asthma attacks are caused by environmental allergens and irritants such as smoke, pollen and animal dander,” Bielory said, in a news release.
