27 October 2008
Rates of childhood asthma have increased by 400% since the 1970s, and there is a clear connection between children’s breathing problems and their mothers’ use of household cleaners.
These findings were released earlier this month from the Children Of The 90s project by the University of Bristol, England. The study of 7,019 families, found that children in the 10 per cent of families who used the chemicals most frequently, were twice as likely to suffer wheezing problems than the families where they were used least.