Does carpet make people allergic? Is it harmful to the human body?

1. Is carpet harmful to health?

In 1994, the Environ Corporation of Arlington, Virginia, USA, conducted an "Assessment of the Safety of Carpet Components and their emissions", which concluded that the chemical analysis of the harmful contents of the carpet proved that the chemical components contained in the carpet did not affect human health.

2, will carpet breed green mold and white mold?

Green mold and white mold only grow in extremely wet, dirty conditions. Poor cleaning and maintenance habits will make the carpet mildew, and mold will grow on the surface of any object, even the glass of the window. Therefore, the growth of green mold and white mold is caused by extremely humid environments, and has no relationship with the surface of the object (such as carpet).

3. Does carpet cause allergies?

Research by the US Environmental Protection Agency shows that carpets can effectively reduce particles in the circulating air. The carpet acts as a filter to absorb airborne dust and allergens (dust, pollen, mold spores, mites, etc.), making it difficult for indoor dust and mite excretions to diffuse in the air and minimize allergens in the air. Then use a vacuum cleaner to clean the carpet, you can put the dust in the carpet, including mite excreta (known as the source of allergens), including allergens, suction clean.

Therefore, as long as the use of carpet cleaning properly, not only will not cause allergies, but also help to purify the air.

4.Can latex used in carpet production cause allergic reactions?

Some people have a history of latex allergy caused by natural latex protease. Carpet production is mainly made of non-toxic and harmless raw materials, and synthetic latex is used for the full carpet backing. So the synthetic latex used in carpet production has no relationship to the natural latex that causes allergic reactions.

5. Can carpets lead to an increase in the incidence of asthma and allergies?

In view of the biological pathology experiment proved that mites are related to human allergies, the Nordic Swedish government once ordered that the use of carpets in public places was prohibited from 1973 to 1990. After 17 years of follow-up investigation, during this period, the annual sales of carpets in Sweden declined by 80%, and the proportion of carpets in the total number of covered objects, The rate fell from 40 percent in the 1970s to 2 percent in the early 1990s, while sales of hard flooring rose 60 percent over the same period, but the number of people suffering from allergies soared 255 percent, from 900,000 to 3.2 million. The prohibition and reduction of carpet laying, but increased the number of allergic patients, social practice has proved that the laying of carpet caused allergies is wrong. In 1990, the Swedish government lifted a government ban on carpets in public places.

6. How do people with asthma lay carpets?

German experts suggest that patients with allergies and asthma should try to avoid using adhesive installation methods when installing carpets, because sometimes the adhesive will contain formaldehyde.