Barrels of New Year here is the health risks - Quotidiano.net

Here are all the health risks associated with the use of fireworks and firecrackers in the analysis of the chief doctor of the central management of the Police Health Giovanna Vitelli

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Rome, December 31, 2013 – With the New Year come back ‘barrels’, and with them all the health hazards , especially those who use them with little attention or buys of illegal inevitably runs. To explain what can happen taking these risks is lightly Giovanna Vitelli, chief doctor of the central management Health of the State Police.

major injuries that you may suffer, says the doctor, concerning diseases “extremely serious’, because it is impact of incandescent substances in the body that often cause serious damage. To this must be immediately rescue the injured and transported to the hospital more ‘close’. The body parts most ‘at risk are always the same: the hands, arms, face, eyes and ears , which are exposed to the risk of “burn all kinds, from the first the second and third degree tear up the wreckage and traumatic tissue. ” With very serious consequences, which in extreme cases, warns Vitelli, “ can lead to amputation of entire parts of the body such as hands and fingers , but also enucleation of the eyeball.”

possible health hazards but do not come only from the explosion of an accidental or uncontrolled fireworks, but are also linked inhalation of smoke and soot . “Particular caution should be exercised by the people who already ‘ suffer from asthma or allergies to metals – Police warns the doctor-because the fumes contain a substantial amount’ of arsenic and heavy metals in general and are made up of fine particles and thin lower than millimicrons which penetrate into the alveoli and then you enter into the bloodstream, with the risk that are deposited in vital organs. “

For this reason, the doctor concludes, “ particular attention should be paid to children , which immediately inhaling these fumes may develop severe allergic reactions, and people with asthma, with careful monitoring, especially where there were people epatopatiche, nefropatiche or with heart disease. “