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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 11h

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 11h

Changes in your home can include
•changing from a gas to an induction hob •turning on the extractor fan to high when you’re cooking •opening the windows •swapping aerosols and cleaning sprays for natural products
•retrofitting or placing in new homes hvac or MHRV Systems

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 11h

The ingenious study in Bradford aims to understand how activities in our home can increase indoor air pollutants and affect human health conditions such as asthma would you be interested in participating in such a study? Comment +Let us know

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INGENIOUS

Do you know what harmful airborne pollutants are found in your home? Many of the activities we do in our own homes produce airborne pollutants, including particles and chemicals that can be harmful to...

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 11h

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the levels of indoor air pollutants can be two to five times higher than outdoors

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The surprising dangers of cooking and cleaning

Experts say most of our exposure to air pollution could occur indoors. What are the most effective ways to reduce indoor pollutants?

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 11h

We should focus on source removal of pollutants indoors.

Regulation and standards for indoor air quality can guide us such as HSA code of practice for Indoor air quality

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Exposure Data

‘Cooking fumes’ or ‘cooking oil fumes’ is the term commonly used to describe the visible emissions generated during cooking by frying with oil. However, these emissions are not technically ‘fumes’. In...

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, studies show that frying a burger indoors can release as much, or even more, particulate matter (PM) than a car exhaust especially without proper ventilation.

Steaming <Boiling<grilling<frying

most of our exposure to air pollution actually happens indoors.

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 11h

How bad is your burger?Did you know-Household frying (and fossil fuel burning) are contributors to household indoor pollutants.

Releasing large amounts of PM2.5 and ultra fine particles, formaldehydes voc , PAH’s +aromatic amines
Similar compounds are found in car exhaust fumes

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 1d

Preventing Covid can prevent long Covid and Cardiac long Covid.

Clean air strategies are essential user independent public health promoting scalable risk reduction measures.

#Cleantheair
@IrishTimes
@irishexaminer
@Independent_ie

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 1d

5% of those post SARS COV-2 infection can develop cardiac long Covid

Cardiovascular symptoms include chest pain, palpitations, shortness of breath, fatigue, arrhythmias, and OI.

Consensus statement by the European association of preventive cardiology

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Cardiovascular disease prevention and management in COVID-19: a clinical consensus statement of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology, the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging, t...

Abstract. The coronavirus-associated disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed significant challenges due to the complex interplay between SARS-CoV-2 infe

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 2d

The global commission on Health indoor Air is working towards individualised national blueprints for healthy indoor air strategy implementation

Healthy indoor air standards monitoring + solutions are urgently needed as we spend more and more time indoors

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 3d

#Budget
#Cleantheair
#cleanairclub
#healthyindoorair
#Globalcall2action
@cleanairkids
@SafeAirSchoolUK
@NPCpp
@TUIunion
@INMO_IRL
@IMO_IRL

Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 3d

A comprehensive guide to clean air in nurseries and schools has been recently produced in the UK and can be adopted here in Ireland
@annesmithmcc 👏

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 3d

We support @AsthmaIreland call for Clean indoor Air to support the 1 In 10 Irish adults and 1 In five Irish children who suffer from asthma - amongst other measures - call to avoid inhaler poverty and support clean fuel policies to improve indoor air quality in homes.

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 3d

Clean air can be implemented as in projects in schools in Boston, France, Latvia, and Montenegro confirm.
These projects were implemented to protect children in schools as children are our future and can’t advocate for themselves. ‘ Clean air is a right not a privilege’

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 3d

To avoid the routine use of surge capacity to treat predictable increases in respiratory illness implement HSA Healthy Air strategies now in high risk settings -schools and hospitals and further adopt indoor air quality regulation for all indoor spaces. Avoiding
cancellations.

Search capacity is the use of beds taken from elsewhere in the hospital to meet ED demand this can often mean cancellation of surgery or urgent care

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 3d

National spending on health as a percentage of GDP trends downwards

Our world and data shows decreases in spending on health comparative to GDP

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 3d

HIQA states what is needed -is increased numbers of beds in hospitals -not long trolley waits.
Hospital bed occupancy should be maintained at 85% to ensure patient flow and avoid risk of increased morbidity and mortality. Reduce outbreaks +provide clean airflow in hospitals too

HIQA report in The Irish examiners stated Irish hospital now so overcrowded they preached safe occupancy

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 3d

-the only attendances continuing to rise ….ED attendances

Screenshot of news article stating University of Limerick Hospital exceptionally high demand for service

Hospital overriding highlighted from August 25

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 3d

@Paschald and @jackfchambers
Has there been budgetry allocation to support universal implementation of Clean air strategies in schools and hospitals

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 3d

The Department Of Education needs to adopt a systematic approach to cleaning the air in schools rather than leaving it to individual boards.
A similar approach to the asbestos schools remediation scheme 2006 could be adopted now for IAQ with urgency.
#budget Funding enabled this

Screenshot of schools asbestos remediation policy from gov.ie

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 3d

Poor ventilation in schools increases the risk of buildup of CO2 VOCs mould bacteria and respiratory viruses,
Triggering chronic disease like asthma and leading to acute illness.
These are all airborne-
So monitor air quality
ventilate and
filter air

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 3d

There was recently a campaign launched to improve attendance in schools -the main reason for school absence continues to be illness absence at 60%

Screenshot Minister Mc Entee launch national campaign on school attendance

Waste water data with super imposed respiratory infection data

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent video from @CleanAir4KidsUK

cleanair is so important in schools

For concentration, performance
Improving test scores +health

If you have five or six minutes, please watch this video
Al Haddrell @ukhadds does a great job of explaining why.

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Why Clean Air in Schools is Important

YouTube video by Al Haddrell

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 7d

Half a decade ago, Orla wrote in a national newspaper about the urgent need to improve indoor air quality to reduce the spread of diseases like Covid-19.

And yet, 5 years later, we're in the middle of another (avoidable) Covid surge, with no systemic improvement in building ventilation.

Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 7d

5 years on

“Why good ventilation is key to stopping the spread of Covid-19

Clean air far more important than clean hands”

We had all of the scientific knowledge & tools to stop the pandemic in 2020 without lockdowns.. & they weren’t used
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/why-...

Why good ventilation is key to stopping the spread of Covid-19

Clean air far more important than clean hands

www.irishtimes.com

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 8d

There is an increased risk of asthma post COVID-19
Asthma rates in Ireland are already one in 10 for adults and one and five for children
#cleantheair
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/vac...

Vaccination may reduce elevated risk of airway diseases in COVID survivors

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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