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Durga lives in a village and cooks food on a chulha (earthen stove) using wood or cow dung cakes as fuel. She has been suffering from severe cough for the last three months. This may be due to the

Durga lives in a village and cooks food on a chulha (earthen stove) using wood or cow dung cakes as fuel. She has been suffering from severe cough for the last three months. This may be due to the Correct Answer soot produced by burning the fuels which may have been deposited in her respiratory tract

Concept:

  • Chulha is a traditional Indian cooking stove used for indoor cooking.
  • Chulha is a U-shaped mud stove made from local clay.
  • After the clay formation is complete, it is finished by covering it with a coat of clay and cow dung mixture. 
  • To cook on such traditional stoves, one must squat on one's haunches or sit on the floor.
  • Wood and animal dung cakes are used as fuel for the Chulha.

Explanation:

Cooking on Chulha:

  • 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, Durga has been suffering from severe cough because of the deposition of soot produced by the burning of fuel in her respiratory tract.

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 headache, weak eyesight, nervousness, and cardiovascular disorder.

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