Is Your "Clean" House Making You Sick?

Are you one of the thousands of Americans who have a family member with a very weak immune system or who is severely allergic to household dust, pollen, pet dander and thousands of other things? Do you spend endless hours making sure your house is clean and disinfected? Have you lost count of the hours spent in the Dr.'s office or the money you've spent on prescription drugs and over the counter medications to relieve first one symptom then another?

Here's a simple fact that will shock many. The very products you're using to clean and disinfect your house may be contributing to and aggravating the problem! Here is a portion of the safety data sheet from one disinfectant wipe. Even though it says "overexposure" many people with sensitive skin and respiratory systems can be effected with normal exposure.

"Effects of Overexposure:

Eyes: Can cause irritation, redness, tearing, blurred vision

Skin: Prolonged exposure may cause skin irritation

Breathing: Excessive inhalation can cause nasal and respiratory irritation,

dizziness, weakness, nausea, headache

Chronic Overexposure: Prolonged contact may cause dryness or

dermatitis to sensitive skin.

Primary routes of entry: Inhalation, skin contact"

You may not realize the full extent of exposure when you use common household cleaners. Breathing the fumes can quickly introduce the toxins into your blood stream. These same fumes irritate the nose, throat and lungs to such a degree that in small children and sensitive adults they can scar the lungs. These fumes can be a major factor in triggering asthma and bronchitis attacks.

Another fact to consider is that the skin is a sponge, and readily absorbs microscopic particles of all types from the environment.

In our modern sealed homes with doors and windows closed to conserve heating energy in the winter and cooling energy in the summer, the fumes from these toxins have nowhere to go, so they build up in our home. A 1989 EPA study concluded that the air in the average home is much more polluted than the outside air.

Unfortunately the pollution does not stop with our homes. These products release harmful residues in their manufacture and use that not only destroy the health of the people who manufacture and use them, but eventually pollute our waterways and harm wildlife. The first step on your journey to good health is to eliminate as many toxins as possible in your environment.

If you'd like to research this further to find out what your household cleaners contain and the toxic effects of them just do a search on your favorite search engine for "household cleaner hazards".