Cleaning your home, we all do it from time to time. We think it’s an important part of having a good home, but could it damage your health? A recent study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine found
Cleaning your home, we all do it from time to time. We think it’s an important part of having a good home, but could it damage your health? A recent study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine found a connection between chemicals in your house, cleaning products and a dramatic decline in lung health. So University of Bergen in Norway followed the health of 6,000 people over twenty years. And when they looked at these people, they actually found that those who clean their home one time a week, you could have lung function decline, there’s other studies that looked at high rates of asthma, particularly in women, there’s been a connection potentially between these products and COPD, Docs! Yes. I mean they even suggested in the study, I’m not saying this is accurate, they even suggested that the effect of cleaning could be the equivalent of ten to twenty years of smoking? Correct. And I think what was most scary about this, was they looked at just regular people cleaning their house, in addition to professional cleaners. And the thought is that when you inhale these cleaning substances, it’s so incredibly irritating to your mucosa and it can be very toxic. And so over time it really accumulates damage. And so many of these cleaning agents are dispensed in an aerosol form, you’re spraying whether it be the windows, whether it be the tiles, whether it’s in the bath tub or shower, these things emit these, we know We were talking in our briefing that you don’t need to be a scientist or a doctor to know that we’ve all cleaned something before and you’ve been spraying and for the next couple hours you have a cough or in some cases may