Is it good to light mosquito coils before going to bed at night

In the summer, lighting mosquito coils to repel mosquitoes is considered a very normal thing by many people. Mosquito bites may also cause more impact and harm to our health, so many people will light mosquito coils before sleeping at night. However, we all need to pay attention to the use of mosquito coils and the impact and harm they may cause to our health, and reduce the harm as much as possible.

With the arrival of summer, many people like to use mosquito coils to repel mosquitoes. However, they do not know that while repelling mosquitoes, mosquito coils also bring harm to you and your family. Relevant experts remind citizens to use safe methods that are harmless to the human body to repel mosquitoes and avoid the possible harm caused by mosquito coils. Mosquito-repellent coils contain four types of harmful substances. It is reported that the active ingredient of most mosquito-repellent coils (0.2%-0.4%) is pyrethroid insecticide, which is extracted from a cypermethrin insecticide. More than 99% of other substances are organic fillers, adhesives, dyes and other additives, which allow mosquito-repellent coils to burn without flame.

What most consumers don’t know is that the smoke from burning this type of mosquito coil contains four types of substances that are harmful to the human body, namely ultrafine particles (particulate matter with a diameter of less than 2.5 microns), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), carbonyl compounds (such as formaldehyde and acetaldehyde) and benzene. In severe cases, it can cause cancer. The ultrafine particles released by lighting a plate of mosquito coils are the same as the amount of burning 75-137 cigarettes. The ultrafine particles released can enter and remain in the lungs. Therefore, it may cause asthma in the short term and cancer in the long term.

Experts say that the pollutants released by mosquito coils may have a strong poisoning reaction to humans, aggravating asthma (causing shortness of breath and chest disease) to acute poisoning, leading to difficulty breathing, headache, eye pain, suffocation, itching, bronchitis, colds and coughs, nausea, sore throat and ear pain. What's more serious is that those particles and gases will be inhaled into the bottom of the lungs, which may cause cancer.

Although many people light mosquito coils to repel mosquitoes when they sleep in summer, some substances contained in mosquito coils will have a greater impact on our body monitoring, and may easily cause some people to become poisoned, or suffer from asthma and other adverse problems. Therefore, we must pay attention to the correct mosquito repellent.