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Why is air pollution especially harmful to infants, toddlers and children?

Children are more vulnerable to breathing in polluted air than adults. Their airways are smaller and still developing. They breathe more rapidly than adults.  Buggies and prams put them at the level of car exhausts and hand-held cigarettes.

If your child breathes high levels of air pollution over a long period, they might be at risk of:

• their lungs not working as well as they grow older
• developing asthma during childhood or as an adult - and if they have asthma already, air pollution can make it worse
• wheezing
• coughs
• lung cancer when they’re older
• infections like pneumoni

academic.oup.com/sleep

Association between long-term exposure to air pollution and sleep disorder in children: the Seven North Eastern Cities study. 

Published:

25 June 2018

Study Objectives

There is limited knowledge regarding the effects of air pollution on sleep disorders, particularly in children. The aim of this study is to investigate this association in children.

Methods

During 2012–2013, 59754 children aged 2–17 years were randomly selected from 27 districts in seven north eastern Chinese cities. All participants’ sleep was evaluated with the Sleep Disturbance Scale for Children. Four year average concentrations of pollutants were calculated for particles with an aerodynamic diameter of ≤1 µm (PM₁), ≤2.5 µm (PM_2.5) from a spatial statistical model, and ≤10 µm (PM₁₀), sulphur dioxide (SO₂), nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), ozone (O₃), carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide CO2, from monitoring stations. To examine the effects, two-level regression analysis was used, controlling for covariates.

Results

We observed that sleep disorder was generally associated with all air pollutants, with the highest odds among PM₁ exposure for male (odds ratio [OR] 1.55; 95% confidence interval [95% CI] 1.36–1.76) and female (OR 1.50; 95% CI 1.30–1.72) children. The overall strongest association with sleep disorder symptom was exposure to PM₁ and Disorders of Excessive Somnolence (OR 1.43; 95% CI 1.30–1.58). PM₁ and PM_2.5 were strongly associated with all sleep disorder symptoms in females (ORs ranged for PM₁ from 1.19 to 1.49; and PM_2.5 1.18 to 1.44). The association between air pollutants and total sleep score was generally greater in female than in male children.

Conclusions

Our findings suggest that exposure to air pollutants increases the odds of sleep disorder in children and point to the need to make reducing exposure to air pollutants a public health priority.

20/04/2022,

So, I received my pushchair air purifier last week and I must say what am ingenious bit of kit ! I’ve used this out in the car and pushchair with the little one and I’ve also used this when working from home in my little office. It’s quiet and a good looking unit. 

The added peace of mind it gives us for better air quality helps massively now the world is going back to ‘normal’ after covid. 

Hope that helps and the very best of luck with your business for this. I hope it takes off x

Laura 
 

Ravair Ltd make no claims or promises as to the effectiveness of this or any of our units in preventing and illness or catching any virus. All claims made by Ravair are based on factual evidence from the Filter Manufacturers and Activated Carbon Manufacturers. All evidence as to the effectiveness of Activated Carbon on Viruses and bacteria is well documented on Google. Home Detoxing.com; 06/12/2022Bacteria typically are large enough to be removed by other filters, but an activated carbon filter will help close the gap and take care of virtually all kinds of bacteria. Viruses• General size: 0.004 to 0.1 microns Viruses are much smaller than bacteria, so a high quality activated carbon filter will probably trap most of them. Emphasis on high quality – we’re talking about slightly more expensive, Having this kind of filter also doesn’t mean that the danger the virus poses is gone. You’ll need some other technology like UV light for that. Charcoaltimes.com 06/12.2022.Charcoal is antibacterial, not so much in the sense that it kills bacteria as antibiotics do, but in the sense that those bacteria that destroy tissue do not grow well in the presence of charcoal. Also, the charcoal neutralizes the toxins the bacteria produce that break down the cell structure, plant or animal. Weds 07/12/2022; The national medical director for NHS England Professor Sir Stephen Powis said a rise in flu cases this winter could put pressure on the NHS, as it tries to deal with a cases backlog and Covid-19 patients.“We are seeing other infections coming back – Group A streptococcus is in the news at the moment but RSV, another virus that affects children, has been circulatingThe Prime Minister continued to say he could not rule out the prospect of taking drastic action again as the nation feels the impact of the new Omicron strain.

‘’ I think it would be irresponsible of any leader in any democracy to say that they’re going to rule out something that can save lives.

“I believe the things we did saved lives. I’ve got to be absolutely frank with you, there could be a new variant more deadly, there could be a variant that affects children, that we really need to contain, I’m not going to take any options off the table

Designed to be attached to a pushchair or a car seat, this powerful, yet quiet, air purifier is designed to remove particulates and particles from the air using Top Quality Glass Hepa Filters to EU Standard EN 1822-1 which removes particulates 0.3microns and above (below 0.7 microns are invisible to the human eye) to 99.98% efficiency using patent pending filters.

It has been proven that at around 60cms in an average stroller your baby is at the most dangerous height to inhale dangerous vapours and fumes, particulates/soot etc from pollution from Diesel Emissions!! Petrol Emissions are nearly as bad. 

These emissions will be breathed into your baby lungs and can cause long term damage as well as sore eyes, restlessness, sleep problems, etc.

Ensure your baby has a clean fresh air to breathe when out and about leading to better developed lungs and contentment. Pollution from these sources are now proven to be killers!   

This unit Will kill Omicron And Delta Virus along with Flu etc.

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