Babies in popular low-riding pushchairs are exposed to alarming levels of toxic air pollutants

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Parents who are using popular low-riding pushchairs could be exposing their babies to alarming levels of air pollution, finds a new study from the University of Surrey.

In a paper published by Environment International, experts from Surrey's Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) investigated the amount of harmful air pollutants babies potentially inhale while out in a pram with their parents or carers.

The study looked at three different pushchair types - single pushchairs facing the road, single pushchair facing the adult and double pushchairs facing the road - and assessed the difference in concentration of pollutants compared to those experienced by adults. The GCARE team also investigated whether pushchair covers altered exposure levels.

https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/uos-bip040820.php

[marble falls]

1. Modern life.

[mr_lebowski]

2. And as soon as they can walk around, they'll be exposed to even more of them ...

Since they'll be at the same height, with nothing around them that protects them from exposure, AND they'll be breathing harder and faster since their own legs will be used for locomotion.

[AJT]

3. Not sure what a push chair is.

[shanti]

4. British word for stroller