Part of the curtain will damage formaldehyde residual health

Curtains are indispensable for home decoration, not only can shade, protection, privacy, and you can beautify the home environment.

However, journalists found that part of the market sales are formaldehyde residues, curtain smell the pungent. Doctors believe that excess harmful formaldehyde may cause symptoms such as asthma, leukemia, worthy of attention.

Press enquiries: curtains have sharp taste

Yesterday morning, this reporter went to the wholesale market of Luohu district, a curtain.

Journalists see the curtain material here. In order to sell, many wholesalers play a price war. Low prices and eye-catching colors, novel style attract many customers patronized.

Reporter noted that customers buy curtains, more seriously, color, style, quality curtain, composition, feel, and so do not care.

Journalists readily touch a dark curtain, smelled the curtains, have a pungent smell.

Journalists came to Phuket Street several shops making curtains.

A shop owner in recruiting women with enthusiasm: "curtain material with silk and cotton and fiber, cotton is the most popular. ”

The woman owner told reporters, general household curtain has three layers, the outer yarn quality, used to block the view to protect privacy.

Intermediate dark fiber material light UV protection. Inner layer with cotton, pattern design, decoration of the room.

Profession: formaldehyde widely

Curtains could contain formaldehyde? long curtains wholesale of Mr. Wei revealed to reporters, as long as through printing and dyeing, cotton or linen curtain fabric, will contain formaldehyde.

Like curtains such products, manufacturers in addition to adding the various dyes, synthetic resins and other additives commonly used, you will add formaldehyde to reinforce its softness or stiffness, improve and enhance the crease, shrink, flame-resistant and waterproof performance. Formaldehyde residues with volatile, such as formaldehyde curtains in temperature and humidity suitable conditions will release out that floats in the indoor, pollution in people's living environment.

Most people don't know the curtains of formaldehyde residues

Contains formaldehyde curtains on the human body very negative, but a press interview with random found that most people do not know the curtains are formaldehyde residues.

An aunt who is experienced and said, "buy the best selected color light curtain, the color depth of the water will fade, but not the Sun. ”

First moved into the new House of Mr. Qin, night-time feel uncomfortable, room can smell the pungent odor, thinking that all furniture coming out, you really do not know the curtains and formaldehyde.

I heard that curtains contain formaldehyde, live scared the longhua of Miss Sun.

Miss Sun is first moved home, all fitted with the new window curtains. She said that for the sake of family health, she plans to bring the curtain down, good immersion cleaning then loaded up.

Doctor: formaldehyde easily cause leukemia

Beijing University Shenzhen hospital doctor GE Qiusheng, Deputy Director, explained that formaldehyde is a colorless, but with a strong irritant gases, if direct contact with the skin, formaldehyde can cause allergic reactions.

Long time breathing air containing formaldehyde may also cause including nose and throat inflammation, dizziness, loss of memory and other symptoms. Of these, formaldehyde on human health effects of major has two aspects. One is to increase the chance of suffering from leukemia. Famous children's Hematology Department experts, former President Hu Asia America fellow occasions, formaldehyde is causing childhood leukemia (blood cancer) of important incentives. Central China Normal University life sciences expert research findings show that formaldehyde concentration exceeding 10 times the amount of cases, it may be carcinogenic. The second is the trigger of asthma and other respiratory diseases.

GE Qiusheng, may wish to take some measures to reduce the curtain effect of formaldehyde on people.

1. buying back the curtains should be fully immersed in the water, washing to reduce the residual of formaldehyde, in outdoor air ventilation Department, and then used again.

2. If the room window, you can select different materials such as curtains, blinds, curtains, etc.

3. open the doors and Windows, through indoor air circulation, reduces content of formaldehyde in indoor air.

4. use of charcoal, activated carbon adsorption of formaldehyde in physics.

5. in addition to the traditional method of formaldehyde.

The 300 g black bubble tea two washbasin, placed in the room, and window ventilation, 48 hours, the room the formaldehyde content will significantly reduce the odor eliminating, stimulation.

Selected curtains "smell the second pick three"

1. smell or odor.

When you purchase your curtains, first news has no smell, if product pungentodor of smell, they may have exceeded the limits of formaldehyde residual health in curtain fabric, curtains don't buy it.

2. pick a suit.

In choosing curtains, it is best to choose the light color. Because the light color of curtains in the dyeing process, the use of formaldehyde in itself, a production of formaldehyde exceeds the allowed figure possibilities also relatively small.

3. look at the varieties.

In choosing the shrink, anti-wrinkle, soft, flat getting and finishing of fabrics and curtain product caution, these flashy curtains, formaldehyde content possible.

(Edit: Justin Lin, internships)