According to the White Paper on Children's Respiratory Health Science, respiratory diseases account for 51.87% of all children aged 0-14 years. Among them, the incidence of upper respiratory tract infections is 39.27%, followed by acute bronchitis. 30.49% accounted for 32.2% of the total pneumonia and bronchial asthma accounted for 6.83%.
According to a report released by the World Health Organization, up to 570,000 children under the age of five die each year due to respiratory infections caused by air pollution. Air pollution has become the biggest threat to children's respiratory health.
However, people often only realize the effects of haze, sandstorms, and other outdoor air pollution on children, but they ignore the “health killers.”
As the main method of purifying the indoor air environment, air conditioners often become an important source of indoor air pollution due to the lack of timely cleaning. Prior to this, Haier had washed several buckets of black water from the air conditioners of several kindergartens during the nationwide free air-conditioning cleaning campaign. To popularize the danger of dirty air conditioning.
Bacteria, molds, dust mites and other microorganisms that develop in the air-conditioner can cause allergic rhinitis, asthma, bronchitis, and other respiratory diseases. Because children lack respiratory defense mechanisms, they lack the nose hair to filter air, and the airways are more narrow. Children breathe fast, have a strong metabolism, and can inhale more air pollutants per kilogram of body weight than adults, and pollutants blown from dirty air conditioners can cause a greater proportion of airway obstructions.
According to statistics, almost 50% of children over 5 years old who died of pneumonia are inhaled particulate matter in indoor air pollutants.
In order to create a healthy breathing environment for children, the China Women’s Development Foundation launched the “Guarding Childhood • Family Environment Health Public Welfare Bank” charity project in Beijing on May 18th, calling for the whole society to care for the respiratory health of the mother and child population.
Air-conditioning company representative Haier also announced that it will build 100 "healthy air classrooms" in the next year. After the project is implemented, 100,000 children's families will benefit from the project.