{"id":347836,"date":"2026-09-16T00:07:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347836\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T00:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:07:54","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-doctors-burning-candles-are-among-hidden-air-quality-dangers-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347836\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Doctors Burning Candles Are Among Hidden Air Quality Dangers At Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">As people begin to break out their fall decor, doctors are warning that candles are among the hidden air-quality dangers inside a home.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Dr. Meave MacMurdo, a pulmonologist at the Cleveland Clinic, says burning candles and other tasks done at home, including cooking and vacuuming can add to a home&#8217;s poor air quality.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">MacMurdo says smoke, vapors, mold and chemicals used in certain paints, furnishings and cleaners can also impact air quality.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Doctors say breathing unclean air is linked to asthma, a higher number of emergency room visits for breathing and heart problems, and increased hospital stays for illness, such as pneumonia and bronchitis. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">People can minimize indoor pollution by turning on the vent hood when cooking, avoid burning candles and reduce the amount of smoke coming from wood-burning fireplace.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">People should also consider purchasing an air purifier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As people begin to break out their fall decor, doctors are warning that candles are among the hidden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-347836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}