Journal of Advanced Pharmaceutical Technology & Research (Jan 2022)

Evaluation of respiratory function among homemakers exposed to indoor air pollution

  • Darshika Raja,
  • G Sridevi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/japtr.japtr_193_22
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 6
pp. 500 – 504

Abstract

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Indoor air contamination is a condition that can increase cardiovascular and respiratory mortality in the present-day population. Utilizing cooking exhaust in working environments, pollutants such as Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), incense sticks, cooking in fuel and kindling oven in the kitchen, and tobacco smoke are the significant reasons for indoor air contamination. The point of this study is to make mindfulness among homemakers presented to indoor air contamination. A spellbinding cross-sectional review including 100 homemaker female subjects in the age of 40–50 know about indoor air contamination. An overview was directed among 100 home creators in regard to indoor air contamination to make mindfulness. The strategy for testing done is basic arbitrary inspecting. The aftereffects of the current review showed that respondents were greatly presented to the indoor air contamination and created side effects connected with it and generally respondents in the age gathering of 40–50 years had encountered more exhaustion, dry bothersome skin, copying and aggravation of the eyes and stodgy nose, and affiliation was measurably huge. This finding revealed the indoor air toxins that can be considered to assume a part underway to infections like asthma, and so forth.

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