Make sure your children do not eat snow – here are the dangers lurking

However, experts unanimously agree that the snow is not good to eat, and for many reasons.

Not only is there a risk of inflammation of the throat and tonsils and the development of infections, but because, seemingly the purest white snow – containing atmospheric impurities and chemicals.

If you eat a little snow, does not mean you will immediately get sick, but it is certain that the slightest amount of snow contains potentially harmful contaminants from the air.

So it is not a toxic composition immediately adversely affects the human body, but potentially dangerous.

Frank Vanier, a chemist from the University of Toronto, said the atmosphere very effectively conveys the dirt so industrial waste particles from the air that is discharged from India, can be detected in the snow of northern Canada and only after five days.

Silk Wilm, nutritionist working for health insurance Hamburg believes that children will not be harmed if they eat a little snow.

The snow is in the form of distilled water, can bind itself to the minerals in the body, but they quickly complement with the intake of other foods.

Parents should take care that children do not eat snow located along roads, which is contaminated with dog urine or the salt which is usually thrown on the streets in winter.

Dr. Jeff Gaffney, a scientist from the Institute Argon National Laboratory, says that flakes may contain any matter that floats in the air, so chemicals that can be found in acid rain, bacteria, sulfates, nitrates and even lead from parts of the world where still burning leaded fuel.