The Simplest Asthma Solution
The Simplest Asthma Solution
During the Democratic convention the Reverend Al Sharpton
quoted a shocking statistic: One third of the children in Harlem
suffer from asthma. This shouldn't be completely surprising
since asthma cases have been consistently increasing over the
years, especially in the cities, escalating recently during the
rollback of some key environmental laws, but it is a trend we
must turn back.
While parents have only limited control over the environment
where they raise their children, there is a personal
environmental decision they can make that may dramatically
reduce the symptoms their children experience. It all comes down
to detergent, and not just any detergent. It is the detergent
that they use to wash their children's clothes and sheets. The
biggest selling detergents in the United States contain large
amounts of irritating phosphates, which are not only a major
irritant to the skin and respiratory system, but a source of
serious pollution, and a component in global warming.
If you are wondering if your laundry detergent contains
phosphates just read the label, it is listed there. In most
industrialized countries phosphate detergents are outlawed for
good reason, but in the United States the chemical industry has
a strong lobby and cheap phosphates help manufacturers keep
their costs low, so their use continues. The next time you walk
though the laundry detergent section of your supermarket, take a
deep breath and notice how much the smell irritates your nose
and lungs.
What kinds of detergent contain low, or no phosphates? Baby
detergent! No mother would dream of washing their newborn's
clothes and sheets in the family's powdered detergent! That
would give their baby's delicate skin rashes, not to mention an
increase in crying and crankiness. There are many readily
available natural detergents that are phosphate-free and it's
worth the time to find them.
We have noticed tremendous improvements for both children and
adults when their clothes and sheets are consistently washed in
a phosphate-free detergent. By itself this change may not
alleviate all of the symptoms of asthma and those related skin
rashes, but it clearly removes an insidious irritant from the
equation.
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It might be helpful to explain why this simple change is so
effective. Testing in Europe shows that, while sleeping, people
are between two thousand and ten thousand times more sensitive
to chemical and electromagnetic pollution than while they are
awake. When a child's pajamas are washed with a chemical
irritant and they sleep on bedclothes containing those same
toxins, their immune system is challenged nightly, during a time
when they are most vulnerable. Their body's nutritional reserves
are consumed in that battle and they are less able to defend
themselves from the pollutants they encounter during their day.
Asthma and allergies are not produced by a single irritant, but
by an accumulation of minor irritants that eventually overwhelm
the body's ability to adapt. It is not a huge leap to imagine
that removing a respiratory irritant from the sleeping
environment, where a person spends one third of their time, is
going to produce an improvement in a child's ability to breathe.
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