Warning issued to anyone with a wood burner | UK | News
Many British Getting into the cold air, getting excited about comfortable nights next to the fire. However, a warning has been given to the landlords with wooden burners in the damage that open fires may cause the health of the person. This may be surprising for many people, but scientists have shared that this side effect is usually hidden, because wood burner owners are usually richer and therefore, Average is healthier.
The University of London (UCL) published research on the use of health and fuel use of 11,000 cases as part of the longitudinal work of British aging. For a period of eight years, the researchers found that the average lung function decreased by 120 ml of 120 ml in those who use wooden combustion stoves, and that people based on other heating methods decreased only 70 ml.
This study discovered that wood burning devices were likely to be used by the white inhabitants of the rich neighborhoods, making it difficult to harm their health because the same households generally had higher health foundations.
The chief researcher at the Health Information Institute of UCL. “People who use solid fuel had lower cigarette and lung disease rates that could mask the real effects of solid fuel exposure.
Interestingly, he shared that it pointed to a significant connection between the use of solid fuel and respiratory fall, despite the healthier base line of the exposed group.
Horsfall continued: “Our study shows that high particulate substances from stoves damage respiratory tissues and cause inflammation similar to cigarette smoke”. And the result does not seem to refer to smoking that is confirmed to reduce lung function by 40ml to 60ml each year, but experts still acknowledge that woodburn combustion devices may affect health.
The study measured the lung function through Fev1, which expresses the amount of air that a person can forcibly breathe in the first second of a breath. Lower values of this test are associated with increased asthma, lung disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The numbers in 2022 had only 9.4% of the houses with wood burners. This has increased to 10.3% since last year.
Professor Ane Johannessen, President of the European Respiratory Association’s Epidemiology and Environmental Group, said: “This underlines the need for a clearer public health guidance and arrangement around the local wooden combustion. People should be aware that these stoves can harm themselves and their families.
Asthma and Lung UK General Manager Sarah Sleet expressed his concern about the increase of devices in the UK houses due to “aesthetics” and added that the effect of air pollution from wood burners on our lungs is more evidence.
