Asian Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology & Environmental Sciences Paper


Vol.27, Issue 1-2, 2025

Page Number: 30-36

IMPACT OF POLLUTANTS AND LOWER OXYGEN PARTIAL PRESSURE IN THE AIR ON HUMAN HEALTH WITH SOME REMEDIAL PERSPECTIVES

ABHISHEK SALKAR AND A.V. SALKER

Abstract

Any combustion to sustain requires oxygen which is taken from air and as result also generates combustion toxic products. Transportation, industries, power plants and others largely use fossil fuel for combustion consuming oxygen from the air and producing combustion pollutants. Due to large activities of men the consumption of oxygen has increased many folds than the oxygen producers on the globe as a result suffered a lowering of the oxygen partial pressure in the air. Heavy transportations, industrial zones, crowded populations, combustion processes and scanty plantations will induce reduced partial pressure of oxygen with toxic pollutants in the air. This may affect health probably leading to type-2 diabetes and other health problems. This may be one of the reasons for increasing diabetes worldwide. Indoor pollution is still worse due to generation of the additional pollutants. All living bodies require oxygen for their activities and for internal defense. Therefore, an insufficient supply of oxygen may hamper health conditions.