People who work as bakers cough, wheeze, and struggle for breath more than others. It may be from breathing all that flour. It’s common enough to have its own name: baker’s asthma. Over time it could worsen lung conditions like asthma and damage your lungs. And it seems to affect not only the baker, but their family as well, probably because of the dust carried home on clothes, skin, and hair.
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