Smog: Health Advice
This health advice comes in relation to the smog/high pollution levels in the UK at the moment. These are expected to clear by Friday.
Dr Keith Prowse, honorary medical adviser to the British Lung Foundation, warned higher pollution levels could have a “significant impact” on people with respiratory conditions.
“People who use a reliever inhaler should make sure that they carry it with them. If they feel that their conditions are worsening then they should contact their GPs,” he said.
Kay Boycott, chief executive of Asthma UK, said the two-thirds of people with asthma who find that air pollution makes their condition worse “will be at an increased risk of an attack”.
Advice on the Defra website states that for high levels of pollution “adults and children with lung problems, and adults with heart problems, should reduce strenuous physical exertion, particularly outdoors, and particularly if they experience symptoms.
“People with asthma may find they need to use their reliever inhaler more often. Older people should also reduce physical exertion.”
It adds that “anyone experiencing discomfort such as sore eyes, cough or sore throat should consider reducing activity, particularly outdoors”.
Same Difference 
what i read was that it was confined to the midlands and the south with small pockets in some areas of scotland and wales.
yet both my sister and i are experiencing chest tightness this last 2 mornings which seems to lessen as the day goes on. we are both asthmatics with COPD and live in west yorkshire. and yesterday morning and evening and this morning we had fog. not a peasouper admitted but definitely like fog which didnt seem as bad in daylight either yesterday or today. so i think yorkshire, at least Wakefield/ossett areas definetly are being affected.–
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