Health News: Cleaning Sprays
Household cleaning sprays linked to asthma in adults!
Regular use of household cleaning sprays could be to blame for one in seven cases of adult asthma, a new study has found.
Using a spray cleaner just once a week can increase the risk of developing asthma by as much as fifty per cent, according to the research.
The study’s lead author, Jan-Paul Zock, of the Municipal Institute of Medical Research in Barcelona, told The Times: “The relative risk rates of developing adult asthma in relation to exposure to cleaning products could account for as much as 15 per cent, or one in seven, of adult asthma cases.”
He said it was not yet known how sprays might actually cause asthma, but suggested the chemicals might provoke an inflammatory response that is part of asthma development.
The international study involved just over 3,500 people from ten European countries who used cleaning sprays and air fresheners. Researchers analysed their data for almost a decade. The results are published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
The research found that six per cent of the participants had developed asthma symptoms and there was a link between the condition and the use of cleaning sprays in the home.
But no link was found between the development of asthma and the use of cleaning products that were not sprayed.
Howard Stoate, a GP, MP and chairman of the asthma all-party parliamentary group, told the Times: “There are a lot of gaps in our knowledge about asthma. Anything that fills those has to welcomed. Although asthma is on the increase worldwide no one can say why,”
Previous research has shown that industrial cleaners have increased the number of cases of asthma but this is the first time that domestic cleaners have been shown to pose a risk.
Professor Neil Barnes, of the British Lung Foundation, told the Daily Mail: "This latest research opens up an interesting avenue for further study, but more investigation is needed to establish whether spray cleaners can cause asthma rather than simply make existing symptoms worse."
Regular use of household cleaning sprays could be to blame for one in seven cases of adult asthma, a new study has found.
Using a spray cleaner just once a week can increase the risk of developing asthma by as much as fifty per cent, according to the research.
The study’s lead author, Jan-Paul Zock, of the Municipal Institute of Medical Research in Barcelona, told The Times: “The relative risk rates of developing adult asthma in relation to exposure to cleaning products could account for as much as 15 per cent, or one in seven, of adult asthma cases.”
He said it was not yet known how sprays might actually cause asthma, but suggested the chemicals might provoke an inflammatory response that is part of asthma development.
The international study involved just over 3,500 people from ten European countries who used cleaning sprays and air fresheners. Researchers analysed their data for almost a decade. The results are published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
The research found that six per cent of the participants had developed asthma symptoms and there was a link between the condition and the use of cleaning sprays in the home.
But no link was found between the development of asthma and the use of cleaning products that were not sprayed.
Howard Stoate, a GP, MP and chairman of the asthma all-party parliamentary group, told the Times: “There are a lot of gaps in our knowledge about asthma. Anything that fills those has to welcomed. Although asthma is on the increase worldwide no one can say why,”
Previous research has shown that industrial cleaners have increased the number of cases of asthma but this is the first time that domestic cleaners have been shown to pose a risk.
Professor Neil Barnes, of the British Lung Foundation, told the Daily Mail: "This latest research opens up an interesting avenue for further study, but more investigation is needed to establish whether spray cleaners can cause asthma rather than simply make existing symptoms worse."
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