Today, the #1 health cause for students missing school is asthma, experts say.
This is a relatively new shift. Why are we so surprised that asthma is a big deal?
Because, until our air became so polluted, asthma was not much of a problem. It's the air toxins that are irritating young lungs and causing asthma. Between 1990 and today, the number of minors with asthma more than doubled!
In addition to absence, poor air quality can affect concentration and student performance. While both students and staff are negatively affected by poor air quality, students are more susceptible to it because they breathe more volume of air per body volume and because their breathing passages are narrower. Thus, toxins easily become concentrated in their bloodstream.
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