EC Paediatrics

For many years now doctors, particularly pediatricians, have known about the impact of air pollution in the home - particularly from cigarettes smoke and house dust mite, affecting lungs - especially children.

However, with the climate change agenda accelerating, and a decrease in smoking in the UK, a lot of emphasis has been on outdoor pollution e.g. the death of Ella Kissi Debra, a 9-year-old, from asthma was recorded by the coroner in 2013, as the primary cause of death from living next to the South Circular in London. Potential outdoor polluting gases, and particulate matter that impacted on her death are in table 1.