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Air quality and health

Are you staying at home for a long time? Do you often feel unwell and don't know why? Maybe it will help you ...

"The enormous dust and smog in cities prompts us to stay indoors for longer. However, the air at home, school and work can be as much as 10 times more polluted than outside. Up to 30 percent of new and renovated buildings have problems with air quality. This is due to the toxic chemicals emitted by plastics, paints, electronics and furniture, and above all the chemicals we use to clean, can we change that?

In an industrialized society, man spends 90% of his life indoors. It is the buildings designed by us that have become the basic environment of our lives. Permanently separated from our natural environment, we become susceptible to a number of ailments, chronic diseases, and even permanent loss of health. Few of us associate recurrent sinus pains, breathing problems, allergies, migraines, fatigue ... with the air we breathe every day.

Air quality and health

Indoor-air quality has been the subject of much research for several decades. From the beginning of the 1980s, air-tight, energy-saving houses and office buildings equipped with synthetic furniture, electrical appliances, and cheap building materials began to be built all over the world. The price of comfort, however, was the phenomenon of recurring syndromes and diseases associated with constant stay in closed and poorly ventilated rooms, which was observed at that time. They are referred to as the "sick building syndrome" (SBS). The most common symptoms associated with SBS are allergies, asthma, irritation of the eyes, nose and throat, fainting, headaches, nervous system disorders, and breathing problems. Interestingly, the ailments often passed after leaving the facility. Many scientists believe that indoor air has a greater impact on our health than pollution in the city, due to the length of stay and constant exposure to hazardous substances.

The cause of pollution are volatile chemical substances (VOCs), which accumulated in large amounts have a toxic, very negative effect on the human body. The most popular are ammonia, foraldehyde and benzene. The biggest polluters include all electronic devices (printers, copiers, computers), household appliances, plastics, carpets, synthetic furniture (popular chipboard), building materials, adhesives and cleaning agents. Worse still, children, especially newborns, are most vulnerable to the effects of indoor pollution and sick building syndrome. Many studies have associated a higher infant mortality rate (SIDS) from 2 weeks to a year of age, with cool months of the year and a heating season (Wolverton 1994). As we know, air quality problems are at their highest then. The research also confirmed the negative influence of tobacco smoke on the course of pregnancy and the later development of the newborn (benzene), which directly indicates the influence of air quality on life before and after birth. Indoor benzene also emit all kinds of enamels, coatings, wallpapers, paintings and printers. Apart from benzene, almost 150 harmful substances were found in unventilated rooms, often in concentrations exceeding the norms permissible for health by several dozen times. The atmosphere in our homes and workplace is certainly not conducive to us, and may seriously affect our health.

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