Dramatic forecasts of a decline in living standards in Britannia. Talking about one “winter humanitarian crisis”experts warn, life in cold houses will have detrimental effect on children’s healthaffecting their lungs and brain development, which also leads to death.

If the country’s next prime minister doesn’t curb rising fuel prices, the kids will be alone a number of respiratory diseases with long-term consequencesAccording to a study by Sir Michael Marmot, head of the Institute for Health Equity at University College London, and Prof Ian Sinha, Specialist Consultant in Respiratory Diseases at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool.

Two researchers warn that living in a cold house can cause severe lung problems children, which can even lead to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema and bronchitis in adulthood.

They add that this will affect the development of millions of children suffering from lung problems and “toxic stress”. brain development them.

His factor stress it will affect young and old. “If we constantly worry about how we will cope, we have increased stress, which can affect the heart, blood vessels and immune system. In such an environment, thousands of people will die prematurely,” notes Marmot.

The crisis is worse than the coronavirus crisis

At the same time, due to “cold crisis” – as they call it – educational disparities will widen as children find it difficult to do their homework in their frozen homes.

“Britain in the 21st century cannot have so many citizens in a state of energy instability. The government must act now. It is clear that we are dealing with a signifier humanitarian crisisMarmot said loudly.

Sinha warned parents not to wrap their children in multiple layers of clothing or sleep in the same beds.

According to the WHO, humidity contributes to 15% of new cases in children asthma in Europe. In children with asthma, lung function deteriorates when the room temperature drops below 9 degrees Celsius.

Claire Bambra, professor of public health at Newcastle University, said the cost-of-living crisis threatens to turn into a crisis. a public health crisis that will surpass a pandemic in severity coronavirus.

Biggest drop in living standards in a century

This study follows a major new study from the think tank. Resolution Foundationwhich notes that Britain is facing biggest drop in living standards in a century. The typical household loses £3,000 of real income within two years, inflation hits 15% for the poorest households and the cost of living crisis will last until 2024.

The Resolution Foundation predicts that 3 million Britons will be immersed in absolute povertyreaching in total 45 million people by January 2023. Child poverty will reach its highest level since the 1990s.

“There will be many deaths among children whose families will be forced to have no heating in their homes. It’s very dangerous,” says the president of the British Pediatric Respiratory Society, Dr. Simon Langton – Hewer.

According to the Guardian