We all are very well aware of how air pollutants harm us and can make us really sick with even the least exposure, right? And due to this, there’s been one too many times you look out at or avoid going to public places that contain such air pollutants that are harmful, just for the sake of being healthy. Yet if we take a deeper look at it, these air pollutants aren’t really just limited to the outside world only. This means that the comfort zone you decide to stay in at every problem or low feeling can actually have harmful air pollutants inside too.

Unexpectedly, there are just one too many sources of air pollutants in your home that many hardly even know about. Managing pollution inside your home is foremost important for you to know the causes that actually spread it around. As only after that, safety measures and precautions can be made to keep a rather healthy and positive environment that is free from the most dangerous air pollutants, especially inside our homes.

Top Sources of Air Pollution inside Your Home:

Paint

The high amount of VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) in household paints is extremely harmful and a great source of spreading health issues and air pollutants in your home. Now if you’ve been near or at a room in your house where there’s a fresh coat of paint, that’d surely be enough for you to catch minor health issues like an instant headache. Although most of the VOCs present in the paint vanish away as soon as the paint dries, some still stay along are known to be carcinogens. To reduce this issue to its most, one can use least or no VOC paint options in their home and spread healthy vibes only.

Non-stick Pans

Did you even know that the much ease providing non-stick pans we tend to choose for our cookware, aren’t as safe as they seem to be? Once you overheat your nonstick cookware at over 500 °F, a toxic chemical is released making things harmful and the least healthy for you and your family. So it’s important to look out for such cookwares that should not be heated much while you cook them.

Gas Stoves

Since many and well, most of the houses today are more familiar with gas stoves, their unfamiliarity with the risk that comes along is quite dangerous too. This means that to provide us gas, such appliances i.e. Stove, emits chemicals like carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and a bit of formaldehyde. The increased rate of such chemicals was more often found in houses where there are gas ovens, and especially during the winter season when we are most likely to even keep our home windows closed. Despite this unexpected spreading of air pollution can actually be reduced if you add-in a ventilator hood in your stove and take some safety precautions accordingly.

Air Fresheners

Most of the time the air fresheners we tend to make use of as a fragrant spreading positive vibe include harmful chemicals like phthalates, formaldehyde and much more; that we take in our home. And usually, the presence of these chemicals isn’t even mentioned in the ingredients of the air freshener we use, to keep it as a secret. Now about 86% of all the air fresheners contain phthalates chemicals. So it’s very important to look out on the air fresheners we use too.

Furniture

This breathing problem creating chemical fluid formaldehyde is a sure substance available in about every house. This embalming fluid is used in many things that are used in our daily households and lifestyles, making it a cause of indoor air pollution in our home. This fluid is mostly used in the making of wooden furniture we find in our home like; cabinets as well as other items using the plywood or particle board. The formaldehyde is released from these products after two years.

Home Cleaning Supplies

As much as we rely on home cleaning products in order to provide a cleaner and more hygienic finishing to our home floors, walls, etc.; that’s just not all that comes with it. Instead, the chemicals that are utilized inside such cleaning products can be harming once touched or inhaled by anyone. Now it isn’t always necessary to react for such chemicals to every person in the same way, as it reacts differently on individuals having different health and skin conditions. Still, to stay on a safer note; it’s better to use less toxic- products or more natural ones than spreading so much air pollution inside your home with such chemicalized products.

Since everything today includes chemicals and made accordingly, it is very important for us to take on things that we are very sure of being the least harmful to our and our family member’s health. And with the knowledge of these; some of the major and basic sources of air pollutants in our home that we find quite often in our homes, one can actually take safety measures against and avoid various dangerous diseases from spreading inside our homes.