When air quality worsens, “an asthmatic feels it before anyone else.”
that drifted into the U.S. led to a spike in people with asthma visiting emergency rooms—particularly in the New York area., which shrouded city skylines with an orange haze in late spring. A medical journal also released a study this week.worsens, “an asthmatic feels it before anyone else,” said Dr. Adrian Pristas, a pulmonologist based in Hazlet, New Jersey, who remembered a flood of calls from patients in June during the days of the heaviest smoke.
“I have no doubt that every asthmatic had an uptick in symptoms," Pristas said. “Some were able to manage it on their own, but some had to call for help.”
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