It’s a well-known fact that over half of the world’s population currently lives in either metropolitan, city, or urban areas to the tune of roughly 55 percent of the total number of humans, regardless of what particular nation they live in. In general, the larger a city is, the more likely it is to be home to measurable air pollution.
Nobody likes living near or working in cities that are home to smog, smoke, and other forms of air pollution. This is true for a variety of reasons.
First off, air pollution simply doesn’t look good, which can have an adverse effect on people’s moods, attitudes, and behaviors. Air pollution almost always has a substantial effect on people who suffer from moderate to severe allergies, not to mention people who suffer from asthma. People with one or both of these conditions are forced to take more antihistamines and more frequently learn on their inhalers, respectively, in order to properly tend to the flare-ups of symptoms that are routinely, reliably, predictably caused by being exposed to air pollution.
The more dense air pollution is – as well as the higher concentrations of chemicals that have been proven to have serious adverse health effects on people who are exposed to such air pollution – the more likely people who are exposed to such air pollution are to experience negative health outcomes.
Medical researchers and practitioners have always known about the link between air pollution exposure and the associated negative health effects that such air pollution exposure causes as far as physical health is concerned. Although some studies have indicated that there are verifiable links between exposure to air pollution and unfavorably outcomes related to mental health, there aren’t enough of them to form meaningful conclusions.
For the first time in history, air pollution spikes have been reliably tied to immediately having an effect on the mental health of children who are exposed to such air pollution increases, according to a study published just two days ago, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, in the well-known medical and environment-related journal known as the Environmental Health Perspectives journal.
Children exposed to the bad air pollution mentioned above were proven to be more likely to suffer from the various serious symptoms of anxiety disorders, major depressive disorder, and suicidal thoughts, all of which are more likely to stick around over the long run through increased exposure to such spikes in air pollution.
