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.
There are many types of eye injury, and symptoms include eye pain, burning, irritation, bleeding, and more. Hay fever, an allergic reaction to outdoor pollens and molds, causes nasal congestion, itchy eyes, and more. Acute sinusitis, an inflammation of the sinuses, causes sinus pain and tenderness, facial redness and more.