Santosh Dr. Pandipati has a close look at the impact of climate change on his personal and professional life.
The San Francisco doctor said, "I have taken care of some patients who had to escape wildfires," said. "The same wildfires have caused bad air quality and my family and I have to breathe."
Pandepati is a maternal and infant medicine expert in the Bay Area, who has been studying the link between climate change and health for the past five years. "We know that excessive exposure to high temperatures, air pollution, especially particulate air pollution, has an adverse effect on pregnancy outcomes, not just pregnancy outcomes." The study of
found that high ambient temperatures increase the risk of premature birth , and ambient air pollution reduces the birth weight of some people.
Pandepati said that when talking to new mothers and expectant mothers, he will refer to these research results when discussing the spread of infectious diseases, avoiding high temperatures and air pollution, and preventing disasters. Unfortunately, this topic will affect your family, which will affect everyone's family.
A scientific review published in 2015 found that there is a relationship between climate change exposure and several adverse pregnancy outcomes, including eclampsia , preeclampsia , cataract , low birth weight, premature birth and hypertension .
A study published in 2020 found that between 1969 and 1988, heat exposure could lead to approximately 25,000 premature births each year.
Pandepati added: "This has a significant harm to mental health: anxiety, depression and Post-traumatic stress disorder ." "We also understand that offspring, i.e. babies, are at risk of low birth weight, stillbirth and premature birth."
Pandepati and another researcher David Abel predicted that climate change and extreme weather events may be associated with increased anxiety, depression and other mood disorders, with the impact on women in particular. Studies have shown that in addition to low birth rates and premature births, climate change may also be associated with an increased likelihood of stillbirth caused by extreme high temperatures. Esther McKent, a midwife at
Miami , said she regularly provides clients with information about climate change, especially how it may affect their pregnancy. doula helps pregnant women by providing information, as well as emotional and physical support during childbirth.
Her advice to expectant mothers is based in part on guidance from the pediatric environmental sanitation specialty departments in the western states, including preparation for hurricane , the importance of hydration, how to deal with extreme heat, and tips for getting government and employer support.
In one example she gave, she and her prospective clients and their respective children evacuated from Florida to Georgia when Hurricane Irma hit Florida in 2017.
McCant said her clients were "already dealing with her housing issues" and "feeling unsafe to stay at home."
During the evacuation, McKent realized that "due to pregnancy is usually not considered a special situation that needs attention during hurricanes," she said.
For McKent, this is part of the work she is expanding. "I'm actually training other midwives on climate change," she said.
Despite the obstacles to reducing climate change, Pandepati is hopeful.
He said that we have not gone too far yet, and we are absolutely capable of mitigating and reducing the impact we have caused and correcting it.
I think this is a real opportunity for the healthcare industry to speak out. I think we can do it, it just takes the right intention.
Despite this, many netizens think that the air is no longer sweet? Didn’t you talk about the free air in the United States? Then why are there still many different problems?
#Guarding healthy breathing##Health##Merkel: Solving climate change is inseparable from China##Air pollution#
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