Around 13,000 children across Ireland are thought to have suffered asthma symptoms in the last year because of the use of gas cookers in their homes without adequate ventilation.
A new study by non-profit energy efficiency group CLASP and the European Public Health Alliance probed the health impacts of the use of gas cookers in households across Europe with support from the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO).
It found 21% of Irish homes use a gas cooker but without ‘mechanical ventilation’ they create a build-up of nitrogen dioxide that exceeds World Health Organisation air quality guidelines multiple times a week.
