Killing ourselves slowly without realizing

Hello steemians,nice of you to visit this post.
As steemians,our lives and health are important because we are to actively contribute on this platform by posting,commenting,voting and investing in steemit.
Thus,it has been my concern to draw your attention on the little things we do that gradually deteriorate our health.
As an environmentalist,I have come to realize day-in and day-out that we cause harm to our health without even knowing.
Today I want to talk about insecticides.
Insecticides are used to control insects.
Insecticide sprays are very dangerous to humans when inhaled even though it was purposely made to kill insects.
Ideally, before spraying a room one must see to it that there's ventilation and after spraying, you must stay outdoors for hours and wait until the insecticide spray dries out before going back in.

Sadly,that is not what we do.Certain people even go straight to bed after spraying their rooms.This is like killing yourself unaware because the particulate matter will find it way into your lungs through your nostrils and start causing respiratory complications which could eventually lead to death.

This is actually a reason why people do not wake up from their sleep,they get choked from breathing the particulate matter.
Worse of it all is the use of mosquito coil indoors.People sleep beside mosquito coils thinking that is the best way of repelling mosquitoes,but do not know they are rather killing themselves with the smoke from the coil.

The findings from the present study suggest that exposure to the smoke of mosquito coils similar to the tested ones can pose significant acute and chronic health risks. For example, burning one mosquito coil would release the same amount of PM(2.5) mass as burning 75-137 cigarettes. The emission of formaldehyde from burning one coil can be as high as that released from burning 51 cigarettes.^source

Below are some of the things you could do to be safe;

1.Always make sure there's ventilation before using your insecticide spray.

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2.Always cover your mouth and nose when using an insectide spray.

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3.Leave the room for some hours immediately after sprayingto allow the insectide spray to kill the insects and dry out before returning indoors to do whatever you want to do.

4.It is not advisable to use mosquito coils indoors because of the smoke.It must rather be used outdoors to repell mosquitoes.

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5.Always wash your hands with soap and running water after using any insecticide.

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Personally,I have experienced this whole insecticide-spray-inhalation before and I must say it was a very unpleasant situation and the worst experience of my life which is why I am sharing this post in the first place.
Luckily for me, I received medical attention very early and I survived but you may not be lucky as I was.
Let's stay safe and continue promoting steemit.
Thank you.