Mosquito Coils & Vapouriser : Passive poison
- Monsoon season do remind about mosquito menace an awful biting army
- Most sought method to repell them are mosquito Coils, Vapouriser and areosol based spray
- These are nothing but scented slow poison !
- Most of chemical based mosquito repellent are loosely regulated and classified as household insecticide
- The major chemical ingredient is allethrin a harmful type of pyrethroid and it's present inalmost all brands
-Inhaling one mosquito Coil = smoking one cigarette
Manufacturers trick the government regulations by enhancing the percentage of composition of it's derivatives as law has loop hole for
composition of allethrin only Not it's derivatives
So called extra strong, plus, jumbo etc should be read as more harmful than normal
Another way to trick the regulation is classifying the not permitted additives as other ingredients
Until there is a madrush for powerful insecticide these folks would keep surviving with innovative jargons
Repellent are heavily scented to obfuscate the excessive amount of additive in place plus tricking the users mind using soothing aroma
Is it that harmful to ingest , Yes studies says so
Rats exposed to 12-15 hours of insecticide exhibited symptoms similar to TB