Reduce potential asthma triggers in your home if family members are asthmatics. Educate yourself and others about CO poisoning. Encourage schools to implement EPA's IAQ Tools for Schools Action Kit to remediate as well as prevent potential IAQ problems. Their bodies are experiencing rapid changes in growth and development. Their immune systems are also developing, and they may be less able than healthy adults to recover rapidly from illnesses and stressors.
Children are more exposed to environmental threats.
They eat proportionately more food, drink more fluids, breathe more air, and play outside more than adults. This means that children may breathe in or ingest more pollutants per pound of body weight. Children are exposed to different environmental hazards. Children are least able to protect themselves, and their natural curiosity and tendency to explore leaves them open to health risks adults can more easily avoid. When children crawl on the ground or floor, or play outside, they are more exposed to potentially contaminated dust and soil, lead paint, household chemicals, and other hazardous substances.