From Lambeth Palace. Archbishop Justin Welby preached at Canterbury Cathedral during a service of 'thanksgiving and repentance' for the first black Anglican Bishop, Samuel Ajayi Crowther, who was consecrated 150 years ago.
Children, senior citizens, and people with heart and lung conditions are especially vulnerable, but smog can impact even those of us in good health. Symptoms during high air pollution days range from eye and nose irritation that can amplify allergy and respiratory infection, to increased cardiac and respiratory deaths.
Your eyes may feel irritated or gritty. Eye pain may be accompanied by blurred vision, itching, redness, dry eyes, or watery eyes. Eye pain may result from trauma, allergies, and infections of the eye area, or from more generalized conditions, including migraine, upper respiratory infections, and sinus problems. The most obvious cause of eye pain is a direct injury, such as a cut or blunt impact to the eye area.