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With the improvement of living standards, people are more and more concerned about the impact of the indoor environment on their own and the health of their families. As people s awareness of indoor environment increases, they often over-decorate. Causes various health problems that people call New Home Syndrome.

New home syndrome

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With the improvement of living standards, people are more and more concerned about the impact of the indoor environment on their own and the health of their families. As people s awareness of indoor environment increases, they often over-decorate. Causes various health problems that people call New Home Syndrome.

Chinese name

New home syndrome

Manifest symptoms 1

Feel upset every morning when I wake up

Manifest symptom 2

Family members are often prone to colds

Manifestation symptom 3

Uncomfortable throat, foreign body sensation, and difficulty breathing

New Home Syndrome refers to various conditions that cause people to appear as a result of building materials or furniture used in newly constructed or renovated rooms containing harmful substances to the human body. Studies have confirmed that bricks, stones, cement, steel, wood, plywood, plastic, paint, paint, porcelain and new furniture used in the construction of new houses and decoration of new homes contain a certain amount of harmful substances such as vinyl chloride, polystyrene Ethylene, formaldehyde, phenol, lead, asbestos, etc. In addition, the humidity of newly built houses is relatively high, which also adversely affects physical health.

1. When I get up every morning, I feel depressed, nauseous, and even dizzy;

2. Family members are often prone to colds;

3. Uncomfortable throat, foreign body sensation, and poor breathing;

4. Children at home often cough, sneeze, and weakened immunity;

5. Family members often have skin allergies and other problems, and they are mass;

6. Loss of appetite, depression, memory loss, etc.

1. Use green materials and products for home decoration and furniture purchase;

2. Before moving in, the doors and windows should be opened to ventilate and ventilate to let the harmful substances volatilize. Wait until the new house is slightly dry before moving in, so that the content of toxic volatile substances can be minimized;

3. It is necessary to reduce the decoration of the new home as much as possible to prevent secondary pollution or increase the pollution of the new home;

4. Plant indoor flowers that have the function of purifying the air, such as spider plants, cacti, etc.

With the improvement of people's awareness of indoor environment, people are more and more concerned about the impact of indoor environment on their own and family health. The Indoor Environment Monitoring Center of the China Interior Decoration Association receives a lot of consumer inquiries about indoor environmental pollution every day. So, how to judge whether the environment in which you and your family live is safe and healthy? Based on the practice of indoor environment detection and treatment for many years, we have summarized and summarized the 10 main manifestations of the harm caused by indoor environmental pollution.

Get up syndrome

Symptoms: Feeling dull, nauseous, or even dizzy when getting up.

Case:

Between January 18 and 20, 2000, two owners of Building No. 2 in Modern City reported that the room had a strange smell, and people felt dizzy and nauseous. Very uncomfortable. After the relevant units tested the room, it was found that the ammonia concentration in the air in the rooms of 5 to 6 floors in Building 2 was higher than the reference standard issued by the national environmental protection department. Indoor environmental experts have conducted air quality testing on one of the households. After testing, the highest ammonia content in the indoor air has exceeded the state's sanitary standards for public places by more than 20 times. The cause of excess ammonia in the room was caused by antifreeze in construction cement.

Prescription: Move away from the contaminated residence, and ventilate the room. Wait until the ammonia level drops to normal levels.

Tachycardia syndrome

Symptoms: The smell of the home is bad after buying new furniture, making it unacceptable and causing physical illness.

Case:

At the end of December 2000, Ms. Li ordered a set of fabric sofas for 3,300 yuan in Forte Furniture City. No quality problems were found on the surface of the sofa. As a result, she had not been in the room for a long time. Smell. Ms. Li, who has retired at home, did not dare to stay at home for a long time, and felt difficulty breathing as soon as she entered the room. What made Ms. Li even more sad was that Ms. Li added a heartbeat problem over a few days and jumped to more than 100 beats per minute, but it was strange that the heartbeat dropped to 80 as soon as she was examined at the hospital. I asked the Indoor Environmental Testing Center to conduct an air quality test on the 18th. It was found that the volatile amount of benzene in the adhesive used on the sofa sponge was as high as 20 mg per cubic meter? It was more than 8.3 times the relevant national standard. Already.

Prescription: Remove furniture containing contaminants from the room and ventilate.

Smoker-like syndrome

Symptoms: Although I do not smoke and rarely touch the smoking environment, I often feel uncomfortable in the throat, feel foreign bodies, and have trouble breathing.

Case:

In 1998, Mr. Chen Ying invited the decoration company for decoration. After the project was completed, Mr. Chen felt that the indoor smell was pungent, which caused a sore throat, cough, and hot eyes and tears, making him unable to live. Moreover, Mr. Chen's laryngeal disease was exacerbated. After examination by the hospital, it was found to be "laryngeal papilloma", and surgery was performed in Xiehe Hospital. He asked the indoor environmental testing unit to test his residence. After the room was closed for 24 hours as required, the experts at the indoor environmental testing center blew tears (due to the harmful gases in the room) and conducted indoor air testing. Up to 1.56 milligrams per cubic meter, 19.5 times more than the national standard.

Prescription: Remove harmful interior decoration, especially inferior man-made panels.

Childhood Syndrome

Symptoms: Children at home often cough, sneeze, and weakened immunity. Children in newly renovated houses are reluctant to go home.

Case:

Ms. Wu, who lives in Liangxiang, Beijing, completed the renovation in May 2000. At that time, the room smelled great, but because she was going to give the old house to someone else, she moved in immediately after the renovation. As a result, from September, Ms. Wu's 3-year-old son became ill. He started with pharyngitis, chronic asthma, gradually decreased immunity, weakened physical resistance, and did not go to kindergarten for a few days in winter. It turned out that the fat child had a small circle after half a year, and he couldn't find out the reason after many visits to the hospital. Recently, Ms. Wu saw reports of children's injuries caused by the indoor environment. She felt that the child's body was related to the indoor environment at home and hurriedly asked an expert to test it. After conducting on-site sampling and laboratory analysis, it was found that after 10 months of renovation of Ms. Wu's room, the formaldehyde in each cubic meter of air in the room had reached 0.36 mg, more than 4 times the national standard!

Prescription: In the decoration of children's rooms, pay attention to the use of harmless materials; let the children live in after all the odors of the decoration are cleaned out; carry out effective indoor air detection.

Mass dermatosis syndrome

Symptoms: family members often have skin allergies and other problems, and they are mass.

Case:

Ms. Chen, who lives in Chengshou Temple, paid great attention to the indoor environment during the decoration. There was basically no pollution in the room. I did not expect that the overall kitchen ordered for more than 3,000 yuan had a problem. The strong stimulating smell made the hostess afraid to cook in the kitchen because Staying a little longer will cause an allergic reaction on the neck and face, swelling and itching, and the old mother of the hostess will have the same reaction.

Prescription: Only removing the source of pollution can cure the common symptoms of the whole family.

Family syndrome

Symptoms: There is a common illness in the family, and after leaving the environment, the symptoms change significantly and improve.

Case:

In 1997, consumer Liu Zhong purchased a 180-square-meter room in Room 702 of a Wade apartment for 1.82 million yuan as a residence. Shortly after check-in, he found that the indoor air was seriously polluted. Mr. Liu's entire family felt unwell. Mr. Liu The original allergic rhinitis was more serious after check-in. His son was diagnosed with pharyngitis by the hospital. After that, the indoor environmental testing department was asked to perform indoor air quality testing. As a result, it was found that the ammonia and formaldehyde in the indoor air were seriously exceeded. The ammonia gas exceeded the national standard of residential areas by 14.2 times and the average exceeded 9.36 times. The formaldehyde exceeded the national standard by 1.5 times and the average exceeded the standard. 1.05 times.

Prescription: In addition to interior decoration, part of indoor environmental pollution also comes from building materials. Before buying a house, it is best to ask the relevant authorities to conduct an air test on the house.

Infertility syndrome

Symptoms: The newly-married couple is not pregnant for a long time, and the cause cannot be found.

Case:

On the afternoon of May 10, 2000, a resident who lived on Xueyuan Road smashed his azalea green granite angrily. With the help of radiation detection experts from the University of Geosciences, the young man finally found the cause of his wife's infertility: the murderer who killed his sperm was the granite who renovated the toilet two years ago. It turned out that the young woman's wife had been infertile after marriage, and it was his responsibility to go to the hospital for a final examination, saying that his sperm survival rate was extremely low, and the doctor said that it might be due to excessive radiation exposure. In his one-bedroom and one-room suite, the hall and toilet are filled with granite called rhododendron green. After the on-site inspection of the stone, the rhododendron green stone far exceeds the national standard for indoor stone use, and radioactive elements The content is very uneven, and the radioactivity level of individual points is quite high. Some measurement points are of type C, and some of the measurement points are above type C. They cannot be used on the external wall of the building. For a long time in such high radioactive radiation environment Life, of course, can cause physical harm.

Prescription: Strong radioactivity can cause not only infertility but also cancer signs. Therefore, when using natural stone and its products in home decoration, we must pay attention to radioactivity.

Fetal Malformation Syndrome

Symptoms: Fetal malformations are found in pregnant women during normal pregnancy.

Case:

Doctors from the Beijing Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Chaoyang District gave birth to a deformed baby girl for a pregnant mother Li Rongju who came to work in Beijing. This fetus, which has just been 5 months old, has no stomach. What's more peculiar is that her mouth sticks out sharply, which is higher than her nose, and there is a small hole in the chin. A few days ago, Li Rongju came to the hospital for a B-ultrasound. When the doctor found a fetal malformation, she recommended an induction of labor. The results proved that the doctor's diagnosis was correct. According to the pregnant woman herself, she had given birth to a child and it was normal. Her body was normal, but her husband was a painter who worked in interior decoration all year round. The place where she worked was just renovated. Doctors speculate that pregnant women are likely to have fetal malformations when they are exposed to substances that are toxic and harmful to the human body during pregnancy.

Prescription: Dr. Zheng Guirong, an expert in maternal and child health care, reminds newly-married young couples not to touch poisonous and harmful objects before and during pregnancy, and to go to the hospital regularly after pregnancy.

Plant wilt syndrome

Symptoms: After a new move or renovation, indoor plants are not easy to survive, and the leaves are easy to yellow and wither, especially some of the most vital plants are difficult to grow normally.

Case:

On a Monday morning in January 2001, employees of a company working in an upscale office building in Xuanwumen walked into the newly renovated office, but as soon as they opened the office door, everyone was stunned by the sight in front of them. I saw that in the office of more than 300 square meters, all kinds of flowers and leaves were withered at the end of work on weekends, and even the flower arrangements of the staff members' desks were no exception. In addition, many employees felt that the indoor smell was abnormal. Some Employees even developed symptoms such as respiratory irritation, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and dizziness and brain swelling. After testing the company's office indoor air, three of the five indoor air projects did not meet the relevant national standards, of which formaldehyde exceeded the national Standard 8 times!

Prescription: The abnormal death of plants is also an important signal of indoor air pollution. If your home also has this problem, you should find the cause from the decoration pollution.

Pet death syndrome

Symptoms: After the new move, domestic pet cats, dogs, and even tropical fish died somehow, and so did neighbors.

Case:

A strange thing happened in a new high-rise residential building in a certain place. Within days after the residents moved to their new home, the pet kittens and puppies raised by each family somehow died. After searching for it, they could not find the cause. Later, Experts from the Indoor Environmental Testing Center conducted on-site inspections and found that the indoor radon content was particularly high, mainly from slag bricks used in local construction. After a newly renovated Beijing resident, the room smelled pungent. Not only the flowers and plants that have been raised for many years have become yellow, but even the tropical fish that have been raised for many years at home have died one by one. Harmful gases in the air are exceeding standards.

prescription:

Pets are sometimes more sensitive to indoor air pollution than people. Especially for colorless, odorless, radioactive radon. This gas is heavier than air and therefore often accumulates on the house floor. Pets are much lower than humans, so they are most likely to be victims of radon.

These phenomena often appear in newly renovated rooms, so they are also called "new home syndrome". More than 80% of a person's life is spent indoors. The quality of indoor air is closely related to our health. If you and your family have these symptoms, immediately perform indoor environment testing and treatment to eliminate the "time bomb" buried near you as soon as possible.

Case:

The decoration of new homes is generally more sophisticated. Leads, phenols, formaldehyde, asbestos dust, radioactive materials, etc. emitted from various coatings and paints used, newly added furniture paints, adhesives, and wallpaper, wall coverings and other decorative materials. Can cause dizziness, insomnia, skin irritation, and even serious illness.

Granite (granite contains radium, which can generate radon) is used for interior decoration. If the air circulation is poor, radon will continue to accumulate and reach a high concentration.

prescription:

The decoration materials used must be non-toxic and harmless. It is best not to use granite as an interior decoration material to prevent radon from being harmful to the human body.