Air Fresheners Making You Sick?

12/06/06

Excerpted from HSI e-Alert

If you want to fill your house with the aroma of fresh-baked cookies, you can bake some cookies, of course, or you can spritz the air with chemicals that smell like cookies.

Ah...fresh xylene!
Many household products contain solvents called volatile organic compounds (VOCs). And in this case the word "organic" doesn't imply a health benefit. Far from it.

Two typical VOCs, used in many commercial air fresheners, are benzene - a carcinogen that's been linked to leukemia - and xylene - a toxic petroleum byproduct that's been associated with headaches and cognitive impairment.

In 2003, researchers at the University of Bristol in the UK reported on the effects of VOCs on mothers and infants...

The Bristol team reported these findings:

In homes where air fresheners were used daily, mothers averaged nearly 10 percent more frequent headaches than mothers in hmes where air fresheners were used once a week or less.

In the "daily" homes, mothers had more than 25 percent higher risk of depression compared to mothers in the "once a week" homes.

In the "daily" homes, infants were 32 percent more likely to suffer from diarrhea.

Infants in the "daily" homes had significantly more earaches than infants in "once a week" homes.

Cookies or chemicals? No contest
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