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Originally Posted by sberdrow
you probably live in Denver where there is a lot of air polution, I lived in Loveland, next to Ft Collins, cleanest air around. It also has to do witht he fact that some asthma is allergie born, and some is mold. Not much grows in Colorado, and you cant find much mold. The Altitude has Nothing to do with asthma.
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I live in Louisville. Most of our patients live in Boulder County. There is air pollution here, but not like Denver. The altitude has to do with your Po2 levels, ie how much oxygen is in your blood. If you have a compromised respiratory system, a lower Po2 level is not a good thing, and some of the kids we see drop severely when they are sick. I also worked as a home health nurse, seeing many elderly patients with COPD (emphysema). It is worse here, too, because of the altitude. You see a lot more people carting around oxygen here than you do in Chicago or Pittsburgh.
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