Household cleaning sprays and air fresheners could be to blame for the high rat

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" Household cleaning sprays and air fresheners could be to blame for

the high rates of asthma across Europe.

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Use of the sprays on a regular basis increased the risk of

developing the disease by between 30 to 50 per cent, a study of

3,500 people in 10 European countries including the UK has found.

Even occasional use as little as once a week increased the risk. Air

fresheners, furniture sprays and glass cleaners were found to have

the strongest effect. Liquid cleaners and polishes had no effect.

 

The findings come from the European Community Respiratory Health

Survey, one of the world's largest studies of lung disease. They are

published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care

Medicine.

 

Previous research has shown that professional cleaners have

increased rates of asthma but it is the first time that domestic

cleaning has also been shown to create a risk.

 

Overall, 42 per cent of those surveyed used the sprays on at least

one day a week. One in seven cases of asthma could be accounted for

by exposure to cleaning products, according to the study's lead

author,Jan Paul Zock, of the Centre for Research in Environmental

Epidemiology at Institute of Medical Research in Barcelona.

 

" Frequent use of household cleaning sprays may be an important risk

factor for adult asthma, " he said. " Our findings indicate a relevant

contribution of spray use to the burden of asthma in adults who do

the cleaning in their homes. "

 

Incidence of asthma has tripled in Britain since the 1970s and more

than five million adults are affected. Similar rises have been seen

in other European countries. At the same time the market for

cleaning products has soared – by 60 per cent since 1994 "

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I do wonder, though, whether the enourmous increase in premature births has had

an influence as the lung system is the last to develope. Mike

 

 

 

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Wednesday, 17 October, 2007 6:11:57 PM

Household cleaning sprays and air

fresheners could be to blame for the high rat