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Can your house be too tidy?
Vegetarian Times, Jan, 2005
Keeping your home squeaky clean could increase the likelihood that your children will develop asthma. That's because many common household cleaners--detergents, floor polishes, air fresheners and the like--emit high levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), chemical irritants that can lead to breathing difficulties in young children.
The higher the levels of indoor VOCs, the greater the risk that children exposed to them will develop respiratory ailments, according to scientists from Perth, Australia, whose research is published in the September 2004 issue of the medical journal Thorax. "Early infancy is a critical period in the development of a child's lungs and immune system," Dr. Matthew Hallsworth, MD, research director of the British organization Asthma UK, told BBC Online.
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