Are mosquito coils harmful to children?

Parents are responsible for their children's physical health, but many times parents do not pay much attention to some details in life, which may cause their children to suffer some adverse effects and harms invisibly. For example, mosquito coils often used in family life may have directly affected children's health invisibly. Therefore, parents should pay more attention to these common sense.

Mosquito-repellent coils contain 4 types of harmful substances

It is reported that the active ingredient of most mosquito coils (0.2%-0.4%) is pyrethroid insecticide, which is extracted from a cypermethrin insecticide. More than 99% of other substances are organic fillers, adhesives, dyes and other additives, which allow mosquito coils to burn without flame. What most consumers don’t know is that the smoke from burning this type of mosquito coil contains four types of substances that are harmful to the human body, namely ultrafine particles (particulate matter with a diameter of less than 2.5 microns), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), carbonyl compounds (such as formaldehyde and acetaldehyde) and benzene.

Severe cases may cause cancer

The amount of ultrafine particles released by lighting a plate of mosquito coils is the same as the amount of ultrafine particles released by burning 75-137 cigarettes. The ultrafine particles released can enter and remain in the lungs. Therefore, they may cause asthma in the short term and cancer in the long term.

Experts say that the pollutants released by mosquito coils may have a strong poisoning reaction to humans, aggravating asthma (causing shortness of breath and chest disease) to acute poisoning, leading to difficulty breathing, headache, eye pain, suffocation, itching, bronchitis, colds and coughs, nausea, sore throat and ear pain. What's more serious is that those particles and gases will be inhaled into the bottom of the lungs, which may cause cancer.

Mosquito coils contain some harmful substances, which are not good for our health, especially for children. Their body resistance cannot be compared with that of adults. A small problem may cause more impact on children. Therefore, to ensure health, parents need to use mosquito coils correctly.