Household chemicals in direct link to asthma rise

December 23, 2004

Hi all,

I found this article very interesting, see below. I've suffered from asthma

all my life and always wondered if it was a constitutional deficiency,

emotional upset, irrational, etc. Also, TCM is very beneficial in the

treatment of asthma.

The article below may offer another piece of the jigsaw answer.

Nigel Hawkes, health editor in The Times, reports on findings which show

that household chemicals, including bleach, disinfectant and cleaning

fluids, are linked with childhood asthma. Researchers at Bristol University,

led by Dr Andrea Sherriff, studied 7,019 pregnant women. Before they gave

birth, mothers were asked how often they used certain chemical-based

products. Their households were then divided into categories based on total

chemical burden. The team then compared this with the incidence of wheezing

in children up to the age of three and a half. The results, published today

in the journal Thorax, show that those children in households with total

chemical burdens in the top 10 per cent were more than twice as likely to

suffer persistent wheezing as children in households in the bottom 10 per

cent. The results back up an Australian study which was published in August.

Kind regards

Attilio D'Alberto

Doctor of (Beijing, China)

BSc (Hons) TCM MATCM

07786198900

attiliodalberto

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