DEQ issues Air Quality Health Advisory for central, northeastern Oklahoma

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The Oklahoma Division of Environmental High quality (DEQ) is issuing an Air High quality Well being Advisory for the Oklahoma Metropolis and Tulsa areas Tuesday.

Oklahoma and Tulsa counties are each below a warning for Unhealthy ozone ranges.

Delicate people ought to plan accordingly.

Individuals with lung or coronary heart illness must be conscious that elevated air pollution might trigger them to expertise opposed well being results.

Ozone impacts folks in a different way. 

Unhealthy ranges of ozone may cause throat irritation, coughing, chest ache, shortness of breath, elevated susceptibility to respiratory an infection and aggravation of bronchial asthma and different respiratory illnesses. These signs are worsened by train and heavy exercise.

Kids, older adults and other people with underlying lung illnesses, comparable to bronchial asthma, are at explicit danger of affected by these results.

As ozone ranges enhance, the variety of folks affected and the severity of the well being results additionally enhance.

To assist keep away from ozone formation and scale back your publicity:

• Automobile pool or experience the bus to work or faculty.
• Stroll or experience a bicycle for brief journeys throughout morning hours when ozone ranges are decrease.
• Wait till night to refuel your car or mow your garden.
• Arrive and go away work just a little earlier or later than normal to lower rush-hour visitors.
• Drive your most gas environment friendly automobile.
• Be certain that gasoline caps on automobiles, garden mowers and different tools seal correctly.
• Journey chain, mix errands to make one journey as a substitute of a number of.
• Restrict idling time in your automobile.
• Restrict the usage of drive-through home windows.
• Restrict the usage of charcoal starter fluid and different merchandise that comprise hydrocarbons.
• Postpone usually permissible out of doors burning to a non-Ozone Watch day.
• Restrict or postpone the usage of two-cycle engines (i.e. lawnmowers, weed eaters, motor boats and motor cycles).