How can excessive formaldehyde lead to health?

1. Mild formaldehyde pollution: If you live in a new house, you may feel tired, fidgety and lose appetite. Children often cough and catch cold.

2. Moderate formaldehyde pollution: there will be sore throat, spicy eyes and cough. And dizziness and frequent colds.

3. Severe formaldehyde pollution: Severe and above pollution can greatly induce serious diseases such as cancer and leukemia, which need timely treatment.

Extended data:

In addition to formaldehyde method is suitable for summer.

1. Parents should always observe their children's reactions. Parents are advised to do an indoor formaldehyde test. Indoor formaldehyde test is a scientific method to understand indoor environment. Now you can test it at home to understand the indoor formaldehyde situation. If it exceeds the standard, try to move out first, let it ventilate more, and reduce the harm of formaldehyde to children.

2. In drawers, cabinets, beds and other places where sealed formaldehyde is not easy to spread, you can put some activated carbon. Activated carbon has the ability to adsorb harmful gas molecules such as formaldehyde and toluene, but it should be replaced regularly or continued to be used after exposure, because it cannot be diluted after complete adsorption.

3. Raise more broadleaf plants such as chlorophytum and green radish indoors; If the smell of pollution at home is obvious, it is suggested to spray some herbs in addition to formaldehyde spray, which is extracted by pure plants and decomposed by biological enzymes without residue, which has no effect on the elderly, children and pregnant women and can effectively remove formaldehyde.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-formaldehyde poisoning