Contents:
- Medical Video: Indoor Air Pollution
- What is air pollution?
- How do the dangers of air pollution affect health?
- Air pollution is not only outside, but can also be produced from inside the room
- How to reduce the danger of air pollution
Medical Video: Indoor Air Pollution
The WHO as the Agency for the World Health Organization states that at least a quarter of all deaths of children under the age of 5 are caused by poor air pollution. The dangers of bad air pollution, among others, affect the quality of water and air cleanliness, where both are important elements of basic needs of human life.
What is air pollution?
Polluted air or air pollution, is one of the results of the influence of substances that are burned. These substances can be physical, chemical, or biological substances that burn in the atmosphere (the layer of gas that covers the earth). Well, the burning of these substances, the effect can endanger the health of humans and other living things on earth.
This air pollution is produced by the impact of the use of vehicles, industrial air waste, or residual combustion gases which are used for the benefit of humans.
How do the dangers of air pollution affect health?
The danger of air pollution on human health is in fact very complex. The problem is, from inhaled sources of pollution, the effects and health problems will be different from each other. The danger is, among others, can affect the respiratory system (lungs), and the body's circulatory system, such as diarrhea, malaria, and pneumonia or pneumonia.
Margaret Chan, as Director General of WHO stated, air pollution is one of the deadly dangers for humans, especially children. Children, basically do not have a strong immune system. In addition, short airways make it easier for them to receive the effects of the air pollution hazard itself.
Actually, the fetus that is being conceived can be exposed to air pollution inhaled. This poor air exposure will continue until the age of children. Not infrequently, someone's respiratory pain has been detected since the baby, for example, such as pneumonia and asthma. Acute pollution exposure, can cause the lung response to clean air to be reduced, and ultimately inhibit the passage of incoming air.
In addition, carbon monoxide compounds produced by air pollution, can affect oxygen levels in the blood, where oxygen is important for blood circulation to the heart to the entire body's nervous system. As a result, humans today are vulnerable to damage to the bone marrow, damage to function, kidneys and nerves. The intensity and duration of exposure to air pollution also affects the level of health hazards received.
Air pollution is not only outside, but can also be produced from inside the room
Maybe all this time, you think that air pollution is only on the highway or in open spaces outside your home. In fact, the danger of air pollution from inside the house can be 5 times higher to produce. Some examples are the smoke used when cooking firewood, mattress impurities inhaled during sleep, the use of household products (gases made from gas, glue, color paint) made of chemicals, cigarette smoke, and when you like to heat the vehicle inside the house.
The danger of pollution from households as above, is vulnerable to being accepted by children because they are a group that spends a lot of time at home. What's more, if the carbon emissions produced are high and the house ventilation is poor, this greatly influences indoor air quality.
How to reduce the danger of air pollution
It may be difficult to close the factory, or not use public transportation everyday. That way, it does not mean that you cannot completely reduce air pollution. The following, is a small step to try, which will bring major changes to health in reducing air pollution produced:
- Avoid smoking inside the house (it's better not to smoke at all)
- Arrange the house ventilation properly, such as the chimney to cook inside the house
- Clean carpets, mattresses and sofas from dust regularly
- Use air conditioning with air filter technology
- Don't keep garbage too long in the house
- Test your vehicle's carbon emissions regularly
- Reduce the use of motorized vehicles, use bicycles or public transportation
- Avoid burning rubbish or watering the streets with sewer water
- Reduce the use of household products made from gas spray
