Coping up with pollution ideas by NDTV
1. Stay indoors: Till the time air quality betters, exercise at home and avoid going out for morning and evening walks. If work-from-home option is available at your workplace, opt for it. Adjust your travel times and avoid going out during peak hours when the air pollution level is extremely high.
2. Stay covered up: Air pollution is mixed with many irritants that come in contact with your skin and cause infections. Best is to wear full-sleeve clothes and also wash hands and face every few hours.
3. Eat healthy and drink lots of water: Add jaggery, basil leaves and honey in your diet to bolster up your immune system. Eat a balanced and healthy diet and drink lots of water to flush off air pollutants that enter through your mouth and nose.
4. Keep indoor plants: One of the easiest ways to naturally improve the air quality is to keep indoor plants in your house and workplaces. You can invest in easily available aloe vera plants, spider plants, snake plants, golden pothos, bamboo palm or weeping fig.
5. Buy a pollution mask: Cover up your face using a good quality pollution mask. Medical experts have advised N95 and N99 pollution mask to be most effective. If a mask in unavailable, use a cloth to cover up your face.
6. Use closed vehicles, carpool: One of the major reasons for air pollution is fuel emissions, so if the travel distance is not much, wear a pollution mask and take a walk or ride a bicycle. But if the distances are long, use close mode of public transport such as a bus or a metro. If this connectivity is poor, avoid going in open vehicles such as autos or two-wheelers and carpool instead.
7. Avoid smoking, burning candles: Apart from curbing vehicular pollution, some of the necessary steps would be to minimise other sources of air pollution like cigarette smoke, burning candles, lighting a bonfire and use of woodstoves.
8. Avoid construction and going to construction sites: If you are building a construction site, stall the process till air quality improves and also avoid going to a construction site and inhaling the dust particles.
9. Keep surroundings clean: Pouring water outside your house instead of brooming can help settle the dust. Ensure the house is cleaned regularly, so as to avoid dust settling in.
10. Invest in a good air purifier: If you have children, elderly or asthma patients at home, bringing home a good quality air purifier should be a priority. more
2. Stay covered up: Air pollution is mixed with many irritants that come in contact with your skin and cause infections. Best is to wear full-sleeve clothes and also wash hands and face every few hours.
3. Eat healthy and drink lots of water: Add jaggery, basil leaves and honey in your diet to bolster up your immune system. Eat a balanced and healthy diet and drink lots of water to flush off air pollutants that enter through your mouth and nose.
4. Keep indoor plants: One of the easiest ways to naturally improve the air quality is to keep indoor plants in your house and workplaces. You can invest in easily available aloe vera plants, spider plants, snake plants, golden pothos, bamboo palm or weeping fig.
5. Buy a pollution mask: Cover up your face using a good quality pollution mask. Medical experts have advised N95 and N99 pollution mask to be most effective. If a mask in unavailable, use a cloth to cover up your face.
6. Use closed vehicles, carpool: One of the major reasons for air pollution is fuel emissions, so if the travel distance is not much, wear a pollution mask and take a walk or ride a bicycle. But if the distances are long, use close mode of public transport such as a bus or a metro. If this connectivity is poor, avoid going in open vehicles such as autos or two-wheelers and carpool instead.
7. Avoid smoking, burning candles: Apart from curbing vehicular pollution, some of the necessary steps would be to minimise other sources of air pollution like cigarette smoke, burning candles, lighting a bonfire and use of woodstoves.
8. Avoid construction and going to construction sites: If you are building a construction site, stall the process till air quality improves and also avoid going to a construction site and inhaling the dust particles.
9. Keep surroundings clean: Pouring water outside your house instead of brooming can help settle the dust. Ensure the house is cleaned regularly, so as to avoid dust settling in.
10. Invest in a good air purifier: If you have children, elderly or asthma patients at home, bringing home a good quality air purifier should be a priority. more
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Is not the air inside largely same as outside? Better cover your nose with good masks and keep oxygen generating plants inside the house. more
Mar 19
please everyone use face masks -simple or N 95 , and i am not promoting any pharma company. please protect yourself , your lungs,go to ur family physicians.dr vikram clinical cardiologist 9818887977 more
Nov 08
Thank you Mala, your post is really helpful. I will share it with others and will also do my bit. more
Nov 08
PLANT MORE TREES AND DO NOT BECOME PART OF A BIG MAFIA NEXUS BETWEEN, MNC'S, PHARMA COMPANIES, AIR PURIFIER COMPANIES, MASK SELLING COMPANIES, DOCTORS , HOSPITALS.POLITICIANS They all earn billions by just paying few thousands to farmers to burn their waste this has now been going on for years and if NDTV is promoting this kind of article BEWARE more
Nov 08
While, I agree that the coys are making huge profits by selling air purifiers and may even be influencing govt to promote their cause, I COMPLETELY DISAGREE that they are paying farmers to burn their crops. Paying farmers has an inherent risk of somebody opening his mouth or even recording the conversation and leaking it. Coys are not fools to take such a risk.
Farmers burn their leftover of crop has reasons: -
Earlier most farmers had cattle and the crop used to be harvested by hand leaving only the root. The root used to rot with water and get dissolved in the soil thereby providing fertility to soil. The hay cut was used for the cattle food and used to sell very costly giving farmer additional income. Unfortunately, these days nobody has cattle and the hay value has become zero. Also the labour is very costly which the poor farmer cannot afford specially with reduced landholdings. As a result, harvesting with automated machines/thrashers is convenient and economical but leaves huge part of the plant with the roots. Additionally even the rains have reduced terribly and with no water this leftover doesn't rot with the soil. The farmer has no other way but to burn it otherwise he will not get his next crop and will not be able to look after his family needs. We all know how many farmers commit suicides. The govt has to come to rescue of these farmers and help them rather than only imposing its will on them without even giving alternatives. The farmer earns by investing all his capital and bearing huge expenditures on seed, manure, fertilizers, water, labour etc and after six months get same benefits that the middlemen earn in few days from the same grain. And the risk for the farmer in the form of untimely rain or lack of it, untimely hailstorm is also huge for the farmer.
Furthermore, the burning of crop adds to Delhi pollution but the main problem with Delhi pollution is Delhi traffic. Otherwise, how can the pollution be limited to Delhi and not Haryana, Punjab where this burning of crop takes place? The moment one leaves Delhi in any direction, there is a sudden drop in pollution. Why? And if it is so then how can we keep enjoying the comforts of individual vehicles, instead of using public transportation and expect the poor farmers to let go his source of income for us to live in pollution free environment? Its time we start being responsible for our own actions and start pooling our transports. Also the govt must get its act together to improve the public transportation in the city. The govt must also make it mandatory for the coys including govt departments, to ply buses for its employees and limit the use of cars. In Govt, high ranking officers are given 2 to 3 cars on govt expense which are used for all personal uses of the family. How can an officer use more than one car for his official functioning? And the effect of providing these additional cars at govt expense is over-running since the family isnt paying for the fuel/maintenance. Why should the family be provided car at govt expense, however high the official maybe?
Sad that all roads lead to corruption. Started from pollution and finished with corruption. more
Farmers burn their leftover of crop has reasons: -
Earlier most farmers had cattle and the crop used to be harvested by hand leaving only the root. The root used to rot with water and get dissolved in the soil thereby providing fertility to soil. The hay cut was used for the cattle food and used to sell very costly giving farmer additional income. Unfortunately, these days nobody has cattle and the hay value has become zero. Also the labour is very costly which the poor farmer cannot afford specially with reduced landholdings. As a result, harvesting with automated machines/thrashers is convenient and economical but leaves huge part of the plant with the roots. Additionally even the rains have reduced terribly and with no water this leftover doesn't rot with the soil. The farmer has no other way but to burn it otherwise he will not get his next crop and will not be able to look after his family needs. We all know how many farmers commit suicides. The govt has to come to rescue of these farmers and help them rather than only imposing its will on them without even giving alternatives. The farmer earns by investing all his capital and bearing huge expenditures on seed, manure, fertilizers, water, labour etc and after six months get same benefits that the middlemen earn in few days from the same grain. And the risk for the farmer in the form of untimely rain or lack of it, untimely hailstorm is also huge for the farmer.
Furthermore, the burning of crop adds to Delhi pollution but the main problem with Delhi pollution is Delhi traffic. Otherwise, how can the pollution be limited to Delhi and not Haryana, Punjab where this burning of crop takes place? The moment one leaves Delhi in any direction, there is a sudden drop in pollution. Why? And if it is so then how can we keep enjoying the comforts of individual vehicles, instead of using public transportation and expect the poor farmers to let go his source of income for us to live in pollution free environment? Its time we start being responsible for our own actions and start pooling our transports. Also the govt must get its act together to improve the public transportation in the city. The govt must also make it mandatory for the coys including govt departments, to ply buses for its employees and limit the use of cars. In Govt, high ranking officers are given 2 to 3 cars on govt expense which are used for all personal uses of the family. How can an officer use more than one car for his official functioning? And the effect of providing these additional cars at govt expense is over-running since the family isnt paying for the fuel/maintenance. Why should the family be provided car at govt expense, however high the official maybe?
Sad that all roads lead to corruption. Started from pollution and finished with corruption. more
Nov 08
