Sat Feb 17, 2018, 03:50 PM
FarCenter (18,645 posts)
Women who clean at home or work face increased lung function decline
Women who work as cleaners or regularly use cleaning sprays or other cleaning products at home appear to experience a greater decline in lung function over time than women who do not clean, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
In "Cleaning at Home and at Work in Relation to Lung Function Decline and Airway Obstruction," researchers at the University of Bergen in Norway analyzed data from 6,235 participants in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey. The participants, whose average age was 34 when they enrolled, were followed for more than 20 years.
"While the short-term effects of cleaning chemicals on asthma are becoming increasingly well documented, we lack knowledge of the long-term impact," said senior study author Cecile Svanes, MD, PhD, a professor at the university's Centre for International Health. "We feared that such chemicals, by steadily causing a little damage to the airways day after day, year after year, might accelerate the rate of lung function decline that occurs with age."
The study found that compared to women not engaged in cleaning:
- Forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), or the amount of air a person can forcibly exhale in one second, declined 3.6 milliliters (ml)/year faster in women who cleaned at home and 3.9 ml/year faster in women who worked as cleaners.
- Forced vital capacity (FVC), or the total amount of air a person can forcibly exhale, declined 4.3 ml/year faster in women who cleaned at home and 7.1 ml/year faster in women who worked as cleaners.
The authors found that the accelerated lung function decline in the women working as cleaners was "comparable to smoking somewhat less than 20 pack- years."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180216084912.htm
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210248245Everybody knows what a bunch of dirtbags the primitive women are--wallowing like pigs in shit and squalor.
But now cleaners and cleansers are supposedly bad for your health.
I'll take my chances with Pine Sol and soap and Listerine and what not.
Response to FarCenter (Original post)Sat Feb 17, 2018, 04:00 PM
blueinredohio (1,090 posts)
4. This just gives me another reason to justify not cleaning
What'd I tell you?
Response to blueinredohio (Reply #4)Sat Feb 17, 2018, 04:02 PM
no_hypocrisy (30,487 posts)
5. Me too. Thank God I'm casual as far as cleaning.
As Quentin Crisp said, "After two years, it really doesn't get much dirtier."
Her place was probably a shithole within a month of moving in.
Response to FarCenter (Original post)Sat Feb 17, 2018, 04:26 PM
Star Member donco (1,439 posts)
7. HHhhmm That would explain
the cleaning crew that we use from “WE GOT MAIDS“ wearing respirators the last time they cleaned.
That's one explanation. Another explanation is that they were gagging on the stench of a filthy primitive shitgibbon.
Response to FarCenter (Original post)Sat Feb 17, 2018, 04:43 PM
Star Member WhiteTara (22,027 posts)
10. Cleaning supplies are generally very toxic stuff
I can't be in the same room as any of it. Citrus products are great cleaners and not toxic.
When the cleaning supplies come out, she's outta there.
