Allergic Asthma- What Has Detergent Got To Do With It

Being an asthmatic, I always make it a point of duty to spend time on a regular basis researching more ways of staying safe and sound with the disease.

I was researching the Internet when I came across an interesting write-up about asthma by Drs Ralph and Lahni DeAmicis.

They are both Naturopathic Physicians and their write-up talked about the negative influence of detergents on asthmatic victims.

It was very interesting so I thought it wise to share this with you. It can help you in preventing allergic asthma.

According to them, the detergents that parents use in washing their children’s clothes and sheets contain a large amount of irritating phosphates.

The phosphates, they claimed, are not only a major irritant to the skin and respiratory system, but are also a source of serious pollution, and a component in the global warming problem.

In the United States, they claim that the biggest selling detergents contain large amounts of these irritating phosphates.

This, they claimed, could be one of the reasons why asthma is on the increase in the developed world, like the United States.

To support their claims, they talked about a testing done in Europe which showed that “while sleeping, people are between two thousand and ten thousand times more sensitive to chemical and electromagnetic pollution than while awake”.

So, if a child’s night clothes, pillow cases and bed sheets are washed with detergents that contain these chemical irritants, the child will be exposed to these while sleeping. It could be a bad allergic asthma for your child.

Going further, they explained that asthma and allergies are not produced by a single irritant, but by a gathering of some minor irritants which all sooner or later over-power the body’s ability to adapt- thereby triggering a respiratory problem like asthma.

They however advised parents to only buy detergents that contain no or low phosphates, such as baby detergents.