Can sun exposure remove formaldehyde?

Formaldehyde is very harmful to the human body. Many people in our lives suffer from formaldehyde. In fact, sun exposure has a certain ability to remove formaldehyde, and the higher the temperature, the more conducive it is to release formaldehyde from the decoration materials. However, formaldehyde is a relatively stable organic substance and will not decompose under light. Therefore, it usually takes more than half a year for a newly renovated house to be ventilated.

Formaldehyde is a toxic substance that exists in large quantities in the adhesives of decoration materials. When the formaldehyde concentration reaches a certain level, it can cause human poisoning and be harmful to health. Formaldehyde poisoning can cause some common symptoms, such as nausea, stuffiness, dizziness, etc. Here we will introduce the 12 symptoms of formaldehyde poisoning.

1. If you feel chest tightness when you wake up in the morning, or even have symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, etc., and you just moved to a new home recently, then you should suspect formaldehyde poisoning.

2. If the resistance of people in your home becomes weaker and weaker and they often catch colds shortly after moving into your new home, you should also consider whether they are suffering from formaldehyde poisoning.

3. Although no one smokes at home and no guests come to smoke at home, you always feel discomfort in your throat, as if there is smoke irritation or foreign body sensation in your throat, and you feel that breathing is always difficult. If you have these symptoms, you should consider formaldehyde poisoning.

4. Children often sneeze or cough at home. Children have poor immunity. At this time, the room they live in is newly renovated. Even children are unwilling to live in such a house. Formaldehyde poisoning may be suspected.

5. After moving into a new home, if you often suffer from skin allergies, and this happens to more than one person in the home, you may suspect formaldehyde poisoning.

6. After living in a newly renovated house for a period of time, if family members develop the same symptoms, such as difficulty breathing, sore throat, etc., formaldehyde poisoning should be suspected.

7. A newlywed couple moves into a new home, but the wife has not been pregnant for a long time and the specific reason cannot be found. It is necessary to consider formaldehyde poisoning as the cause of female infertility.

8. If a pregnant woman has a normal pregnancy but ends up with fetal malformations, formaldehyde poisoning may be the cause.

9. The plants placed in the home wither inexplicably, or the green plants planted are difficult to survive.

10. After moving into a new home, the pets at home died for unknown reasons, and the same happened to the neighbor’s pets.

11. Frequent feeling of dry throat, prolonged dizziness, and fatigue. These symptoms disappear or are alleviated after leaving the room.

12. The furniture has a very pungent or irritating smell, which lasts for more than a year and has not completely dissipated.

The above is an introduction to the 12 symptoms of formaldehyde poisoning. Although 12 points are introduced above, please note that they are only some clues of possible formaldehyde poisoning. If you find these clues in your life, you should suspect that your family may be living in an environment with too high formaldehyde concentration. It is best to test the formaldehyde concentration in your home environment.

To remove formaldehyde, it is better to leave the product for a long time! The volatilization cycle of formaldehyde is 3-15 years. Formaldehyde cannot be eradicated because the glue cannot be removed! Only when formaldehyde is released faster and decomposed catalytically can the catalyst have a long life.