Sentences with phrase «lodge in your lungs»

Such pollution, as Business Insider's Lydia Ramsey explained in 2016, «is especially dangerous because it can get lodged in the lungs and cause long - term health problems like asthma and chronic lung disease.»

Those air - borne particles can damage nerves and lodge in your lungs.

But federal regulators say Yates violates the national health standard for fine particles, which can lodge in lungs and trigger heart attacks and respiratory disease.

Research has shown such particles can lodge in lungs, triggering asthma attacks, heart attacks and other respiratory and cardiovascular problems.

When a CT scan revealed a 24 - inch clot stretching from his legs into his heart, doctors feared the mass could break loose and lodge in his lungs, blocking oxygen and killing him instantly.

Nearly 100,000 Americans die each year when a clot breaks away from the blood - vessel wall and lodges in the lungs or heart.

Turns out forest fires set to clear land in Indonesia generate the kind of soot that lodges in lungs and shortens lives across Southeast Asia.

Wildfires are a source of an especially problematic type of air pollutant known as PM2.5 («particulate matter» less than 2.5 microns in diameter), which can become lodged in lungs and cause or exacerbate a wide array of health problems such as asthma and heart disease.

When I arrived home, Robert pretty bad cough, sore throat and a flu that had lodged in his lungs.

PM — Particulate Matter, tiny particles of solid matter that lodge in the lungs and deposit on buildings

It can lodge in their lungs when they lick it off.

Heartworm disease is an infestation of a parasitic worm (Dirofilaria immitus) that initially lodges in the lungs but with severe enough infections can back - up through the heart, where it gets it's name.

These dead worms can form an embolus and get lodged in the lungs, in the heart vessels or other parts of the blood stream causing a vascular event, a stroke and even death.

CONS: use has decreased over years, can hold large volumes of water if there is a water leak, fibers can lodge in the lungs, eyes, and skin if protective gear isn't used, very high energy use to create, some manufacturers add 5 % phenolformaldehyde.

Liu said China shut down as many as 62,000 small - scale and «dispersed» pollution sources in 2017, noting that they were responsible for around 30 percent of total emissions of PM2.5, small particles that lodge in the lungs.

This particulate matter gets lodged in the lungs when inhaled and increases the risk for pulmonary diseases, including lung cancer (7).

Asbestos fibres lodge in the lungs, irritate the tissue, and eventually bring about disease including cancer.

Mesothelioma is a very serious cancer of the lining of the lung caused by asbestos fibres lodging in the lung and the condition often remains dormant for twenty or thirty years.

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No matter the source, they pose a health threat to people, because they are small enough to bypass the respiratory system's natural defenses and get lodged in the deepest recesses of the lungs.

All the animals breathed the same weight of titanium dioxide, but more of the very fine particles lodged in the rats» lungs and inflamed their airways.

The concern: whether there's a risk these microscopic particles, measuring up to 100 nanometers in length (a nanometer is 40 millionths of an inch), can enter the lungs of chemical workers and become lodged in tissue there and in their throats.

Fine particles are considered especially dangerous because they lodge deeply in the lungs and aren't cleared by coughing.

In particulate form, as sulfates and nitrates, it gets lodged in the tiniest recesses of human lungs and causes major health problemIn particulate form, as sulfates and nitrates, it gets lodged in the tiniest recesses of human lungs and causes major health problemin the tiniest recesses of human lungs and causes major health problems.

These fine particles, which are blamed for some 90 % of premature deaths from air pollution, can lodge deep in the lungs, causing respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.

Particle shape is important in determining how particles move in our lungs and where they are lodged.

Ingested eggs from animal hatch in the gut and release oncospheres which penetrate the intestinal wall, migrate via the circulation, and lodge in the liver or lungs or, less frequently, in the brain, bone, or other organs.

Mosquitoes A mosquito bite can infect your cat with the West Nile Virus, but more commonly, with heartworms — parasites that lodge themselves in a cat's lungs and heart and mature to up to six inches.

The name is descriptive — these worms lodge in the right side of the heart and the pulmonary arteries (that send blood to the lungs), though they can travel through the rest of the body and sometimes invade the liver and kidneys.

When an infected mosquito bites a dog, it releases young heartworms, called larvae, which mature into bigger worms that lodge in the dog's heart and lungs.

After inhalation, the organism may deposit in the upper respiratory tract or lodge deep in the lung.

These same toxins pass right through the relatively shorter noses of other dogs and then become lodged in and damage the lungs.

They then lodge in the heart, lungs, and surrounding blood vessels and begin reproducing.

As the adult worms die, they break up and are carried to the lungs, where they lodge in the small blood vessels and are eventually reabsorbed by the body.

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They then lodge in the heart, lungs and surrounding blood vessels, begin reproducing and move to other parts of the body.

For example, some cats may exhibit neurologic signs or seizures if a clot becomes lodged in blood vessels within the brain, while patients with blood clots in the right side of the heart may develop acute respiratory distress if the clot lodges in blood vessels within the lungs.

After several months the larvae grow into foot - long worms that lodge themselves in the heart and lungs.

As the worms live out their lives in the cat and start to die, the worms can cause inflammation of the lungs and become lodged in vessels which can lead to sudden death of the cat.

Strict rest is required so Atlas does not become too active and have the heartworms lodge in his heart or lungs and cause complications.

The larvae lodge, grow and reproduce in the heart, eventually causing lung, liver and kidney failure and death.

The Powder Highway — originally a marketing vehicle cooked up by Chris Elder of Fernie Alpine Resort and Dave Nicholls of nearby Island Lake Catskiing — is a woven fabric of main roads, backroads, and sideroads in southeastern B.C that encompasses everything from deluxe cat - skiing operations to under the radar local ski hills to prestigious alpine touring lodges for skiers with big heart, lungs, and quads.

Fine particles of such smoke lodge deep in the lungs of women preparing meals, gifting them a dark scourge of ill - health and premature death.