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What types of outdoor activities can be impacted by pollution and how can they be affected?

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When Running: Breathing in polluted air can cause long term damage to your lungs.

When swimming: Pollution is one of the many hosts of bacteria, and if someone was to accidentally drink the pool water, it could lead to them being extremely ill.

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Air pollution can irritate respiratory conditions and make it hard to breath, especially for the elderly and children. Since illness can be caused by bacteria that live in water, pollution in water can lead to serious illness.

While performing outdoor activities such as aerobic activities, you take deeper breaths which increases the exposure to air pollution. You’re most likely to breathe through your mouth during exercise which means any air you breathe in generally bypasses your nasal passages, which filters out airborne pollutants from entering your lungs. When these particles end up in the lungs, it causes inflammation and irritation. The risk for heart attack and stroke becomes a threat when these particles end up in the bloodstream, a possibility when not caught in the nasal passages.

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