Breathing in Traffic Fumes

[fredfelt]

Tommers is right, see your doctor. Could be carbon mon oxoide posioning from gas fire.

 

[beeboo]

I did see my doctor a few weeks ago about something different but I reported that I'd been having headaches and tight chest in case it was related, and he listened to my breathing etc and didn't seem concerned. Although to be fair he was a crap doctor.

I'm going to be cycling again after today so I'll see how it goes and if it's still troubling me I'll see if I can get an appointment with the one decent doctor at our practice.

 

[beeboo]

Right this is really pissing me off now, got a cough has been getting steadily worse since Monday and am just feeling weird - had this sort of claustrophobia/suffocation feeling just now after I got in from the commute home, had to have a long sit down.

I'm hoping I'm completely making this up but so far I feel worse when I cycle and better when I don't

 

[hiccup]

I cycle into work most days, down busy roads, and seem to have an almost constant low-level cough. I have wondered if it's connected to traffic fumes, but no idea if that actually is the reason.

 

[tommers]

Right this is really pissing me off now, got a cough has been getting steadily worse since Monday and am just feeling weird - had this sort of claustrophobia/suffocation feeling just now after I got in from the commute home, had to have a long sit down.

I'm hoping I'm completely making this up but so far I feel worse when I cycle and better when I don't

go see your doctor. honest. loads of people cycle in london and don't get that. a GP will know more than a bunch of droogs on the interweb.

 

[AnnaKarpik]

Anyone else see that guy on TV early last night, measuring particulates in the air? They reckon that a cyclist breathes in as much crap as a pedestrian which is a great deal less than a motorist. The pedestrian can significantly decrease particulate inhalation by walking as far away from the traffic as possible and hanging back a little when waiting to cross the road. The cyclist was advised to take to parrallel routes less favoured by cars and forget about the masks.

eta; a visit to the doctor is the way to go for persistent coughs and certainly for breathing difficulties of any description. Don't wait to see if these things go away on their own; a mate of mine collapsed with pneumonia after some 'wait-and-see'.

 

[beeboo]

go see your doctor. honest. loads of people cycle in london and don't get that. a GP will know more than a bunch of droogs on the interweb.

Aye, I will, I'm just ranting now really