How paint can affect your family’s health – and what you can do about it
There are more than three million asthmatics in the UK (one in eight children and one in 13 adults), and between 100 and 150 million sufferers in the world. Norwich Union insurance reports that, over the past quarter-century, asthma in the UK has increased six-fold amongst children and three- to four-fold amongst adults.
Norwich Union points to two ‘environmental bad guys’ – pollution and bad diet- linked with asthma. Most of us have very little control over environmental pollution, but sometimes we actually introduce dangerous pollutants into our homes.
Most asthmatics are highly sensitive to paint fumes, leading to wheeziness or full-blown serious asthma attacks. Yet it’s not just asthmatics who suffer from the effects of the 300 million litres of paints sold in the UK each year, and their associated products. There are many other serious health risks.
A range of health risks
With good reason, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rates paint within its Top Five environmental hazards, and has produced research that shows...
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