What are the symptoms of formaldehyde poisoning in children?

After buying a new house, modern people will choose to redecorate their cozy home. However, due to the uneven quality of various decoration materials, many people have purchased furniture and other materials rich in formaldehyde and other harmful substances, posing great health risks to children and the elderly in the family. Formaldehyde poisoning is a typical manifestation. Let’s take a look at the symptoms of formaldehyde poisoning in children.

Infants and young children who are in a period of rapid growth and development breathe in twice as much formaldehyde as adults, and also ingest more air pollutants than adults. Seriously excessive formaldehyde content can cause allergies in infants and young children, and may even cause leukemia. Symptoms of formaldehyde poisoning in infants are as follows:

1. When getting up in the morning, the baby feels stuffy, nauseous, or even dizzy;

2. The baby is prone to catching colds, coughing, sneezing, and has a weakened immune system. The baby is reluctant to stay at the newly renovated house.

3. Although babies are rarely exposed to smoking environments, they often feel uncomfortable, have a foreign body sensation, and have difficulty breathing;

4. Babies often have skin allergies and other problems, and they are frequent;

5. After the baby leaves this environment, the symptoms will change and improve significantly.

Solution to formaldehyde poisoning:

1. Leave the scene quickly: Formaldehyde is a toxic volatile gas. It also has adhesive properties and can quickly penetrate into the human pores and clothing fibers. Therefore, we should quickly flee the scene after formaldehyde poisoning and take off our clothes in time to prevent further damage by formaldehyde. Exposed skin has been corroded by formaldehyde and should be immediately rinsed with plenty of water, followed by neutralization cleaning with soapy water or 2% sodium bicarbonate solution.

2. Short-term acute formaldehyde poisoning: Patients with this type of formaldehyde poisoning mostly inhale large amounts of formaldehyde gas for an extremely long period of time, which leads to upper respiratory tract irritation reactions and complications. For this type of formaldehyde poisoning patients, they should pay attention to lying down and resting, and they can only be active after being observed for 48 hours and having no other symptoms.