Correct Answer - Option 3 : Severe Coughing
Concept:
- Cow dung cake is used in most of the rural areas for cooking food.
- Their primary cooking fuel is cow dung because they are poor and cannot afford other means.
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Wood and animal dung cakes are used as fuel for the Chulha.
- Chulha is a traditional Indian cooking stove used for indoor cooking.
- Chulha is a U-shaped mud stove made from local clay.
Explanation:
Cooking on Chulha with cow dung cakes:
- The major problem with Chulha is that a lot of smoke is produced inside the house by burning wood, dung, and crop waste.
- The smoke may cause acute respiratory, ear, and eye infections.
- Smoke also causes breathlessness, chest discomfort, headaches and this can be fatal for children.
- They produce a large amount of ash as residue.
- Burning a Chulha for cooking food produces soot which is a black powdery substance formed when something is burned.
- These soot particles are so small that one can inhale them while cooking.
- These soot particles then deposit on our respiratory tract.
Thus, if a person daily uses cow dung cakes as fuel to cook food then he/she is likely to suffer from severe coughing.
- Allergy is caused by airborne allergens, dust mites, pollens, fungi, etc.
- Cancer is caused by ultraviolet rays, radon gas, infectious agents, etc.
- Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease.
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning:
- CO binds with haemoglobin to form carboxyhemoglobin.
- It is about 300 times more stable than the oxygen-haemoglobin complex.
- The formation of carboxyhemoglobin prevents oxygen from binding to the haemoglobin.
- Thereby, reducing the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood.
- This oxygen deficiency results in headaches, weak eyesight, nervousness, and cardiovascular disorder.
