Our investigation supports other findings that use of biomass as a household fuel is a risk factor for ALRI, and provides new evidence that the types of kerosene and kerosene stoves used in Nepal for cooking may also be a risk factor for ALRI in young children.
A logistic regression model including a set of confounders for adjustment [age, sex, HAZ, WAZ, type of domestic fuel (kerosene or wood), smoking, crowdedness, and hematocrit level] was then applied.
In relation to the proportion of time the child spent in the kitchen during cooking, we found marked differences across primary stove types: For kerosene the proportion of children reported to be in the kitchen all of the time was 89%, compared with 29% for biomass (47% for electricity and 60% for gas).
Different types of ICSs use different types of fuel, and the price of kerosene and LPG may not necessarily reduce the likelihood of purchasing an ICS that burns wood.
The 15 kerosene-functioning refrigerators were all of the same type (RCW50 EK) and consumed on average 35 L of kerosene per month.
Other variables were households having or not having the following items: a radio, a sewing machine, an electric flat iron, type of bed, charcoal flat iron, a bed net, kerosene lamp, kerosene stove, car, tea table, refrigerator, television set, sound stereo, telephone, mattress, wheel barrow, cell phone and camera.
Albertite, a type of asphalt, was first found in Albert County in 1849 by the Canadian physicist Abraham Gesner, inventor of kerosene.
There are trees that will burn green, a sort of "kerosene wood," though most of our guides agreed we would be too high to find this type of tree.
Potential confounders included in the models were sex, age, presence of pets in the house, overcrowding, traffic disturbance at home, type of home cooking fuel (wood or coal; kerosene), and presence of smokers in the house.
The water stank, sometimes of sewage, sometimes of kerosene.
