Are pesticides harmful to plants?

There are often some small insects in our homes, which not only affects our living environment, but also affects our mood and reduces our quality of life. In order to eliminate small insects in the home, many people will regularly use pesticides to eliminate insects at home. However, people usually have plants at home to purify the air. So, are pesticides harmful to plants?

Insecticide aerosols are toxic and can harm your health. In the hot summer, mosquitoes, flies, cockroaches and other pests are active frequently, often disturbing people's normal daily lives. To deal with these annoying "guys", insecticide aerosol is an essential item in the home during summer. However, unlike ordinary daily necessities, insecticide aerosols are toxic to a certain extent. If you are not careful, they can easily endanger the health of your family and children. First of all, the correct way to use it should be: spray directly at the pests, or close the doors and windows, and spray randomly in all directions of the space so that the room is filled with the mist, which can kill mosquitoes, flies and other flying insects within minutes. Open the doors and windows after 10 minutes and ventilate before entering the room. For reptiles such as cockroaches, the aerosol should be sprayed evenly on the places where they appear, stay and live. To maintain the long-lasting effect of the medicine, it should not be wiped off after spraying. Since any pesticide has a certain degree of toxicity to the human body, pyrethroids are now widely used sanitary insecticides internationally. Long-term exposure to the human body can cause nervous system toxicity, causing symptoms such as dizziness and headaches.

1. Before spraying the medicine mist, food, water sources and cupboards must be sealed so that they can be used after people have meals to avoid contamination, and the medicine bottles must be placed out of the reach of children.

2. You should take protective measures, such as wearing long-sleeved clothes and masks to prevent skin or respiratory poisoning.

3. Do not overuse. Many people increase the dosage to enhance the insecticidal effect, but this can also easily lead to poisoning. If you find that your family members or children have symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, blurred vision, and skin tingling, you should leave the environment where pesticides have been used immediately. If the situation is serious, you should send them to the hospital for treatment immediately.

4. Since insecticide aerosol is pressure-packed, avoid violent impact and high temperature environment. In addition, some products use flammable organic substances as solvents. Do not spray them toward fire sources to avoid danger.

All the content about household pesticides mentioned above is only applicable when the household pesticides are at room temperature. However, if the temperature is too high, the current situation may not be the same. Therefore, the editor recommends that when you don’t know whether a certain household pesticide can affect the growth of plants, do not let the household pesticide come into contact with the plants at home, so as to ensure that there is no risk.