At present, the improvement of human life quality has made more and more people pay attention to life and health issues. Paint and coatings have always accompanied people's daily life. So how much do you know about the health knowledge of paint?

Paint is one of the indispensable materials in the process of home decoration. But general paint contains various organic solvents: such as formaldehyde, xylene, acetone, etc. These substances can penetrate into your body through breathing, mouth, and skin, causing great harm to the body. So, how to remove these strong toxic gases permeating the air, there are the following methods:

1. Put two pots of cold salt water indoors, the paint smell will disappear in 1-2 days, you can also soak the onions in the pots, which is also effective.

2. Pour 300 grams of black tea into hot water in two washbasins, put it in the living room and open the window for ventilation. After 48 hours, the indoor formaldehyde content will drop significantly.

3. Buy 800 grams of granular activated carbon, divide the activated carbon into 8 parts, put them in small dishes, and put 2 to 3 dishes in each house to remove indoor odors.

4. Prepare 400 grams of coal ash, pack it in a washbasin and put it indoors, the formaldehyde content can be reduced within a week.

Of course, you must also take protective measures when using paint. When preparing paint, you must wear rubber gloves, long-sleeved clothes, and a hat to prevent paint from splashing on your body; be sure to wear a gas mask; Buy some yogurt to drink after the shutdown. Fresh milk, yogurt, sheep blood, brown sugar water, etc., these can help to clean the organic toxins in the blood. It has a considerable curative effect on relieving the accumulation of harmful substances in paint in the body.

In addition, there is a very harmful substance: lead, which exists in all kinds of paint. Once it enters the human body through the respiratory tract, digestive tract, skin, etc., it will continue to accumulate in the blood, causing anemia, memory loss, high blood pressure, and joint pain. Pain and other toxic reactions.

Studies have found that infants and young children are the main victims of lead pollution. According to a survey by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 1/3 of children in my country still ingest excessive lead, and household decoration pollution is the most common source of lead pollution in children. The survey shows that at 1 meter from the ground, the lead concentration in the air is 16 times that at 1.5 meters, and the height of children is within this range. Infants and young children often touch the wall with their hands, and they have the habit of sucking their fingers. Ingestion of large amounts of lead. In addition, the absorption rate of lead by infants and young children is as high as 53%, which is about 5 times that of adults.

Currently, there are simple ways to prevent lead poisoning, such as cleaning floors, window sills, and vacuuming carpets regularly every week; urging children to wash their hands frequently, especially before eating; ensuring children's diets are high in iron and calcium and low in fat , can make children less absorb lead in the environment.