Your Questions About Wildfire Smoke and Health, Answered
As wildfires ravage Los Angeles, experts answer key questions about how wildfire smoke affects health and how to protect yourself.
How To Protect Yourself Against Wildfire Smoke
The Los Angeles wildfires have been generating large amounts of smoke that can include toxic fumes and fine particulate matter. Here are ways to protect yourself.
How Wildfire Smoke Affects Your Health—and How You Can Protect Yourself
The composition of a wildfire can also have an impact on human health. With the California fires engulfing homes and businesses, smoke in the region is likely carrying chemicals released from synthetic building materials that are more toxic than those emitted from burning vegetation.
Inhaling Wildfire Smoke Can Cause Long-Term Health Risks: How To Limit Your Exposure
While wildfires can cause immediate destruction to homes and towns, a few weeks of smoke exposure should not have long-term effects for most healthy people, according to Reza Ronaghi, MD, a pulmonologist in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Explainer-What Are the Health Risks From Wildfire Smoke?
Higher exposure to wildfire smoke is also associated with higher odds of developing dementia, according to a study of southern California seniors without dementia at baseline. Eve
What to know about the dangers of wildfire smoke
Wildfire smoke produces particles in the air that can damage your lungs and respiratory system. Here are some ways to protect yourself.
Why Smoke From the Los Angeles Fires Is So Dangerous
Incinerating commercial and residential buildings releases hazardous chemicals and gases from their materials.
Wildfire smoke can cause chronic inflammation. Here are 6 ways to protect yourself.
Wildfire smoke is made up of tiny particles that can enter our airways, causing health effects like heart and lung inflammation.
California Wildfires: How Smoke Harms Your Body
As wildfires blaze across California, here is how inhaling smoke could affect your health, from itchy eyes to dementia risk.
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What kind of masks protect from wildfire smoke?
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As wildfires burn in LA, what to know about protective masks
Certain masks are effective in protecting against wildfire smoke — but only if they are fitted and worn properly.
How To Protect Yourself From LA's Wildfire Smoke
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How to Monitor Air Quality and Protect Yourself From Wildfire Smoke
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How to protect yourself from the smoke caused by L.A. wildfires
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Keep wildfire smoke out of your home: Expert advice to avoid hazardous conditions
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As wildfires burn in LA County, what to know about protective masks
Certain masks are effective in protecting against wildfire smoke — but only if they are fitted and worn properly.
In Los Angeles, people snap up air filters and wear masks against smoke pollution
People are taking precautions as multiple wildfires cause poor air quality across a wide swath of Los Angeles County.