Chemical pollutants: formaldehyde

Formaldehyde is a source of extensive air pollutants, urban office buildings and households of formaldehyde in indoor air comes mainly from the building materials, furniture, woodworking plate and adhesive coating, synthetic textiles etc.

Home decoration as a poor artificial wood or used by the contrary some sheet manufacture of furniture for indoor air formaldehyde content increased, and thus endanger human health.

So, the main of formaldehyde on what harm the human body?

Formaldehyde on human health are stimulating, sensitization and mutagenicity three mechanism.

The first effect of formaldehyde is stimulating role is the indoor decoration of the most common consequences, especially for eye irritation, in your eyes, formaldehyde serious exceeding rooms let you in to open eyes.

Formaldehyde is also the sick building syndrome, the main symptoms are mainly manifested in the eyes, nose, pharynx, larynx bit irritate, Boo sucks hard, symptoms such as skin irritation;

Formaldehyde in a second role is sensitization, formaldehyde and combination of protein molecules in the human body can cause the human body after the occurrence of sensitization reaction, mainly manifested allergic dermatitis, pigmentation, formaldehyde can also be induced asthma, sometimes even can cause human death, another survey showed that formaldehyde may also cause allergies in pregnant women abortion;

Formaldehyde in the third role is mutagenicity, formaldehyde levels in certain concentrations can lead to DNA breakage, high concentration of formaldehyde can cause formation of adducts DNE, with strong ability of mutagenicity.

Popular speaking high concentrations of formaldehyde can cause human protein denaturation, reduced immunity, induced tumors.

(Editors: Luo Li-ping)