I would like to know people's opinion, if it is healthier to live outside big cities like London? For example is it a big difference in air quality if you live in London 1-3 zone or almost outside 6-9 or in smaller town?
Maybe someone has moved to smaller town from London? If there are any changes?
Thank you!
Hi yelena, that's a difficult question to answer as people may have different triggers for their asthma...tree pollen, or oil seed rape or diesel fumes or house dust. Have you tried ringing the BLF helpline for advice, it is open during the working week after 10am. Asthma uk have a helpline too. Best wishes.
Hello Yelena and thanks for the post.
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I think poor air quality is a major cause of COPD in smokers and others. Five members of my family have smoked for over thirty years and a couple of them still do. None of them cough much and it is very rare for any of them to have chest infections of any kind. We all live in zones 1 - 9
I however am the only one of us who for the past thirty years has lived just off a busy artery road in the 6 - 9 zone. In my case I firmly believe the proximity of the road and the heavy traffic has contributed greatly to my COPD.
(I do realise that people get COPD for many reasons and a large number of people who live nowhere near or in busy towns and citys and people who have never smoked or worked with asbestos, etc. etc., get COPD.)
Let's face it, we dont see little packets of rubber on the road when tyres wear down. Nope, the rubber is flying around in the air for us to breath in coupled with all the other good things that are in the makeup of tyres.
Then there's the muck from exhausts! Must stop or I'll go into a serious rant and get locked up!!
Thank you, butter-fly, very much for sharing your opinion and your experience.
I have answered you exactly on this been there and done that from the Cotswolds to the City of London Zone 1 The Barbican and back again to the Cotswolds ! crazy lady all in 12 months ..I lived opposite BLF headquarters, never had issue with air..very clean and never felt this a problem for me or my family.
There is lots of research linking pollution to copd and there is a cone of pollution - smoke, nitrous oxide (i think that's the name), particulate matter from car and industrial pollution - over london considered to start at the M25 and cover the whole city. I moved when diagnosed to the coast in Kent and believe i would be majorly incapacitated if i'd stayed.
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I agree with Knitter there are so many factors it all depends on your triggers. Exhaust fumes in inner city or pollen and sprays in the country.
If I am within a mile or so of rapeseed fields I feel ill as well as tight/SOB. I have found the east coast I breath better than the west coast?
Copd is such an individual disease,I have problems in the rain or with steam,some have problems with air quality.We are all different!I live in North London near a large park so no problem with air quality although some people at P.R. Class have had problems.D.
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