Cleaning Your Home With Bleach Could Be Making Your Child Sick

Bleach is known for its cleaning and disinfecting power around the house but the same cannot be said when it comes to children’s health. Studies have shown that children who are constantly exposed to bleach often end up having high rates of respiratory infections, tonsillitis and influenza. Most of the cases recorded found out that children were infected due to inhalation of the fumes.

According to a Belgian study that was conducted by the University of Leuven showed that there was a great correlation between exposure to bleach and infection rates in children.The study showed that 20% of children would more likely to get flu as opposed to 35% that had high chances of getting recurrent tonsillitis. The high rate of use and infection was narrowed down to reinforced advertising and erroneous belief.

The study also showed the comparison between two countries Finland and Spain. Spain was shown to have a whopping bleach usage of 72% as opposed to Finland that only had 7%. The main reason for this disparity was that Finnish schools were not often cleaned with bleach as compared to Spanish. These sentiments were also acknowledged by the British institute of cleaning Science that defended such argument’s stating that it was specifically based on observation and had no proven link whatsoever. Read more for details..