Gas cooker may be causing asthma in children
According to the 2014 National Survey of Consumption by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the penetration rate of IH cooking heaters is about 23%, and the majority of Japanese households use gas stoves. Gas stoves have the advantage that they can be used even during a power outage and are suitable for high-temperature cooking, but there are research results that 'gas cookers increase the risk of childhood asthma.'
Gas cooking is associated with worsening asthma in kids. But proper ventilation helps
Natural gas such as city gas contains methane as the main component, but also contains hydrocarbons such as ethane and nitrogen, and by combustion, not only carbon dioxide and water, but also carbon monoxide, nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, etc. Produces sulfur dioxide, formaldehyde, and PM2.5 . Of these, nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are said to damage the respiratory tract such as the throat, trachea, and lungs.
A 2013 study by a team from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands found that a meta-analysis of statistical data showed that 'households with gas cookers have a 42% increased risk of asthma in their children and asthma before death. The risk of developing meta-analysis increases by 24%, and the risk of developing exhaled asthma increases by 32%. '
In Australia, where the prevalence of asthma is one of the highest in the world, in 2018, the gas cooker itself was the direct cause of the asthma that children in families with gas cookers suffered from. is probability of research results that can reach 'to 12.3% in announcement has been. However, the study says, 'I don't know if the gas cooker itself produced asthma or worsened the asthma I had.' In addition, research results have been published in the United States in 2017 that gas cookers increase the amount of nitrogen dioxide in the room and increase the amount of asthma treatment used by children.
On the other hand, research results such as 'Respiratory diseases such as asthma are related to smoking at home but not to gas cookers' and 'Gas cookers have no effect on adult respiratory organs' such as ' research results have also been announced, but many of the studies have pointed out the association between children's asthma and gas equipment.
Ian McGrave, a professor of pharmacology at the University of Adelaide, cited a 2018 study showing that a powerful range hood (a ventilator installed on a stove) reduces the risk of childhood asthma from 12.8% to 3.4%. , 'Ventilation is important,' he said.
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