What are the hazards of formaldehyde to babies?

Formaldehyde itself is a harmful chemical substance to everyone, but many manufacturers still use it in some products such as paint. It is especially harmful to babies because their resistance is not as good as that of adults in all aspects. Some people don’t know much about it, so they want to see what harm formaldehyde does to babies? Let’s learn about it together below, and I hope everyone can gain something.

Formaldehyde can enter the human body through contact, breathing, and eating. Formaldehyde can cause serious damage to human bronchi and lungs, and can cause coughing, wheezing, and tears. Formaldehyde is more harmful to the nervous system, especially it has a strong toxic effect on the thalamus.

When formaldehyde enters the human body, it will destroy the synthesis of nucleic acids and disrupt the metabolism of vitamin C. Experiments on insects have also shown that formaldehyde can cause gene mutations and may cause developmental disorders in the fetuses of mice. Some surveys even show that inhaling excessive formaldehyde at one time can cause death!

Symptoms of formaldehyde poisoning include: itchy skin, congestion, papules, suppuration and necrosis of the skin after damage, and the formation of skin nodules, hypertrophy or cracks. It can cause increased glandular secretion in the mucous membrane. Tearing, severe eye pain, cough, chest tightness, general weakness, headache and dizziness. Mucous membrane congestion such as eye and nose bleeding, and neurological symptoms such as unsteady gait and muscle spasms may also occur. Chronic poisoning can weaken a person's digestive ability, cause visual impairment, persistent headaches, palpitations, insomnia, facial nerve paralysis, etc.

Because children have weak resistance, strong absorption ability and weak excretion ability, and they are almost at the same height as formaldehyde floating. Therefore, children are prone to inhaling large amounts of formaldehyde. Also, because children are still in their developmental stage and their organs are not yet fully developed, if they are harmed by formaldehyde, the damage will be unpredictable.

3. Children's symptoms after absorbing formaldehyde are particularly severe. It is understood that there was an incident in Nanchang recently where more than 100 young children were poisoned by formaldehyde. The poisoned children suffered from skin redness, swelling and allergies, breathing difficulties, and nosebleeds. Those who were severely poisoned even developed septicemia.

It causes great harm to the growth and development of children. Getting sepsis can cause extremely serious damage to a child's normal life.

4. Therefore, we must pay attention to the quality of the air environment in which children live and ensure that they live in a healthy and safe environment. We should monitor the environment in which we live and take immediate action if any levels are found to exceed the standard. Currently, the best way to treat formaldehyde should be plant-based products, which can completely decompose formaldehyde into harmless water and carbon dioxide without secondary pollution.

After reading the above introduction to the harm of formaldehyde to babies, have you learned more knowledge? Therefore, families with babies at home must pay attention to have a good understanding of the products they use, so as not to regret it when problems arise, when it will be too late. Many problems can be avoided by taking precautions.