I personally hate the smell of
the mosquito coil unless i have no choice but to light it up. Now i have my fan brought all the way from home and my ceiling fan fixed, i definitely will never use a mosquito coil already. It is a chemical smoke and bad for one's health for sure even if you have no knowledge of how it works for a mosquito or even human being. The inhalation of mosquito coil smoke can caused selective damage to the lung and liver. The findings from the present study suggest that exposure to the smoke of mosquito coils can pose significant acute and chronic health risks. For example, burning one mosquito coil would release the same amount of P[M.sub.2.5] man as burning 75-137 cigarettes. The emission of formaldehyde from burning one coil can be as high as that released from burning 51 cigarettes!
the mosquito coil unless i have no choice but to light it up. Now i have my fan brought all the way from home and my ceiling fan fixed, i definitely will never use a mosquito coil already. It is a chemical smoke and bad for one's health for sure even if you have no knowledge of how it works for a mosquito or even human being. The inhalation of mosquito coil smoke can caused selective damage to the lung and liver. The findings from the present study suggest that exposure to the smoke of mosquito coils can pose significant acute and chronic health risks. For example, burning one mosquito coil would release the same amount of P[M.sub.2.5] man as burning 75-137 cigarettes. The emission of formaldehyde from burning one coil can be as high as that released from burning 51 cigarettes!
Epidemiologic studies have shown that tong-term exposure to mosquito coil smoke can induce asthma and persistent wheeze.
Despite the fact that mosquito coil smoke may have many potential adverse health effects, large populations in developing countries still use mosquito coils in their daily lives.
And despite the test im having on tomorrow(which is actually today already, 17 hours to go), it jsut worth me to post this up on blog so that many of you out there realise that how badly can a mosquito coil affect our health. Did some finding from the net and i really like this, it is written by Jotman:
Just how safe are mosquito coils?
Walk down the main street of any tourist-town in Southern Thailand and you will likely find a mosquito coil smoking away under every table in just about every restaurant. The tourist wonders: is mosquito coil smoke hazardous to my health?
Travelers seem to fall into two camps on this issue. Some worry about it and try to avoid the mosquito coil smoke; others dismiss the health concern, considering the smoky coils a prudent precaution to thwart insects and the serious diseases they may harbor, most notably, dengue fever and malaria.
Jotman investigates.
According to a study by UC Riverside scientists, many mosquito coils – most notably those manufactured in Asia – often contain up to one percent BCME (which stands for bis[cloromethyl]ether, a chemical associated with the breakdown of S-2). BCME has been described as “the most potent lung cancer chemical ever discovered.” And lung cancer is just about the most deadly cancer known. In one Chinese factory where mosquito coils were manufactured, a large fraction of employees were dead within five years of starting their jobs. The cause? Lung cancer.
By contrast, no study of cigarettes has ever found tobacco smoke to pose any where near such a high risk. Put it this way: there is no comparison between cigarettes and mosquito coils. Another study -- one that only considered the amount of "small particulate matter" present in mosquito coil smoke (it did not investigate BCME question) -- found the coils to be about 100 times more hazardous to human health than tobacco smoke.
It is illegal to sell mosquito coils in the United States that contain BCME. Nevertheless, Chinese-made mosquito coils that contain BCME have penetrated the US market in recent years.
What to do about the risks associated with mosquito bites; the very real threat of contracting insect-born diseases like dengue and malaria? Mosquito bites can and should be prevented by each individual taking some basic personal precautions:
1. In the evenings or wherever mosquitoes are prevalent during the day, keep your body covered in light-colored clothing and spray insect repellent onto exposed extremities.
2. At night either sleep under a mosquito net, stay in room with well sealed mosquito screens, or sleep in an air-conditioned room.
3. Remember: malaria-bearing mosquitoes strike in the evening and at night. Dengue-carrying mosquitoes can strike at any time.
Burning a mosquito coil while you sleep is not a good idea. Mind you, this is exactly what Thai TV commercials urge the locals to do: one such advertisement shows a group of smiling Thai kids singing about virtues of mosquito coil smoke. Mosquito coils are a big business in Southeast Asia; companies with ties to corrupt governments are not about to let a real health hazard stand in the way of real profits. Whether you are a local, tourist, traveler, or foreign resident of Southeast Asia, it’s better to think for yourself and not blindly follow this mass-media dictated local custom. For as a UC Riverside research team concluded:
In many situations, it seems likely that the reality of mosquito-borne diseases (Mulla et al. 2001) may dominate determination of hypothetical risk:benefit ratios for mosquito insecticides delivered using devices such as coils. However, if BCME were an important environmental contaminant resulting from burning mosquito coils containing S-2, it would be impossible to maintain use given the well-established carcinogenicity of BCME in humans.
Translation: the risks associated with BCME are so incredibly high that even the contribution mosquito coils make towards stemming the world’s worst tropical diseases would not seem to outweigh the hazard.
My conclusion: Mosquito coil smoke is highly toxic to humans and should be avoided.
Another finding:
Toxic effects of mosquito coil - a mosquito repellent
The physical and chemical properties of the mosquito coil, a commonly used mosquito repellent in Asia and South America, were analysed by the Department of Anatomy, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT. The smoke emitted from the burning mosquito coil consists of submicron particles (diameter less than 1 micron) coated with a considerable amount of heavy metals, allethrin and a wide range of organic vapors, such as phenol and o-cresol. Therefore, a lengthy exposure to this smoke will cause adverse effects on the consumers.
The physical and chemical properties of the mosquito coil, a commonly used mosquito repellent in Asia and South America, were analysed by the Department of Anatomy, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT. The smoke emitted from the burning mosquito coil consists of submicron particles (diameter less than 1 micron) coated with a considerable amount of heavy metals, allethrin and a wide range of organic vapors, such as phenol and o-cresol. Therefore, a lengthy exposure to this smoke will cause adverse effects on the consumers.
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p.s.: i never meant to shout at anyone who is using it but so long as your concern about your health and people around you, starts to think about using it the next time you light it up, think about your health, if you have the symptoms I mentioned above, it might probably cause by the mosquito coil smoke.
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