Experts suggest that mosquito repellent is a pesticide and should not be used by infants and young children.

Summer is coming, the weather is getting hot, and there are more mosquitoes. In the shopping mall, the traditional burning mosquito incense for mosquito repellent and mosquito control has been placed in a conspicuous place in the container. Experts suggest that mosquito bites in summer should not blindly rely on chemicals, especially families with babies should be more cautious.

The summer weather is humid and warm, and mosquitoes grow and multiply rapidly. it is also the time when mosquito bites cause an epidemic of diseases, and mosquito bites are the first to bear the brunt of the harm caused by mosquitoes. Adults may get a red packet when they are bitten, which usually disappears after a few hours. But the child's immune system is not yet fully established, recovers slowly, and is prone to inflammation or other diseases. In addition, summer is also a high incidence season of epidemic encephalitis B, transmitted by mosquitoes, more common in children under 10 years of age, characterized by persistent high fever, headache, vomiting and so on.

At the counters of summer supplies in department stores, whether mosquito-repellent incense or insecticide, the outer packaging is printed with "tasteless" or marked suitable for home and children. The reporter compared the two products of the same brand "toilet water" and "mosquito repellent toilet water" and found that "toilet water" only had the word "Wei makeup correct number". While "mosquito repellent toilet water" in the "production license number", "health makeup approval number" at the bottom of the "pesticide official registration certificate" and "pesticide production approval document number".

It is understood that the commonly used mosquito repellent is also a commodity of pesticides. Whether it is mosquito-repellent incense or mosquito repellent, as long as it is a chemical mosquito repellent product, all belong to pesticides. At present, there are two kinds of chemical mosquito repellent products on the market, one is to "kill", which causes death by stimulating mosquito nerves, traditional mosquito incense, electric mosquito incense, aerosol insecticides, etc., all belong to this category; the other is mainly "repellent". Through the production of unpleasant smell of mosquitoes to avoid, "mosquito does not bite" and other mosquito repellents belong to this category.

A doctor at a hospital in Hechi City said that children, especially babies, the skin immune system has not been fully established, long-term use of skin mosquito repellent will be harmful to children. At the same time, the mucosal tissue of the baby's respiratory system is not well developed, and mosquito repellent and mosquito repellent with irritating odor had better be used less. (seek a doctor and ask for medicine) (responsible editor: Dong Yanxue)