{"id":123352,"date":"2021-08-04T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=123352"},"modified":"2021-08-04T19:42:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T14:12:42","slug":"burning-wood-coal-for-cooking-can-cause-blindness-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/burning-wood-coal-for-cooking-can-cause-blindness-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning wood, coal for cooking can cause blindness: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/health\/burning-wood-coal-for-cooking-can-cause-blindness-study-78244\"><strong>Down To Earth <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Oxford and the Chinese Academy of Medical Science have conducted a study to understand the association between cooking with wood or coal and an increased risk of substantial eye diseases leading to blindness.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Key Findings of the Study:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Burning solid fuels <\/strong>such as coal and wood for cooking can cause damage to the eyes and cause blindness.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The very small particles <\/strong>released with the fumes can penetrate the eyes and cause physical interior damage.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Long-term use of solid fuels<\/strong> for cooking can heighten the risk of conjunctivitis and cataracts by 32% and 17%, respectively.<\/li>\n<li><strong>However, the risks were lower <\/strong>when participants switched from using solid to clean fuels (electricity or gas). The rates of these eye ailments were higher in rural residents than their urban counterparts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moreover<\/strong>, the significant long-term assessment also concluded that solid fuel use was not associated with glaucoma.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Need for study:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Close to half the world\u2019s population<\/strong> is exposed to household air pollution stemming from cooking fuels. This includes 452 million in China and 846 million in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Previous studies <\/strong>have explored the connection between cooking with solid fuels and the risk of cataracts in women, but not men.<\/li>\n<li><strong>According to those reports, <\/strong>women cooking with biomass fuels were exposed to three times the levels of particulate matter (PM) 10 and PM 2.5 as those using liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).<\/li>\n<li><strong>However, <\/strong>these studies could not ascertain whether the burning of solid fuels is also behind major eye diseases like conjunctivitis, glaucoma, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Down To Earth What is the News? Researchers from the University of Oxford and the Chinese Academy of Medical Science have conducted a study to understand the association between cooking with wood or coal and an increased risk of substantial eye diseases leading to blindness. Key Findings of the Study: Burning solid fuels such&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/burning-wood-coal-for-cooking-can-cause-blindness-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Burning wood, coal for cooking can cause blindness: Study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[8699,8698,8700],"class_list":["post-123352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indoor-pollution","tag-issues-related-with-health","tag-solid-fuels-pollution","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701155495},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}