Smog Season Is Coming Back to NCR. Is Your Child's Chest Ready?
Last week I noticed it on my drive to the clinic. There was a faint haze hanging over the society roads that wasn't there a month ago. It's early, but anyone living in Greater Noida West knows what comes next: AQI screenshots in the WhatsApp group, school circulars about outdoor activities, and a lot of worried parents asking each other the same questions. I've spent years as a kids doctor in Greater Noida West , and the pattern hardly changes from one year to the next. Once the air turns bad, the coughs start. Dry ones, wet ones, the kind that get worse at night and leave the whole house tired. So instead of waiting for that to happen, let's talk about what you can do right now, while the air is still relatively kind. Why Children Feel It Before We Do Adults can often shrug off a hazy day. Children can't, and there are simple reasons for that. A child breathes faster than an adult, which means more air, and more of whatever is in that air, goes into the lungs f...