Disinfectant use during pregnancy linked to childhood asthma and eczema

Medical Xpress / British Medical Journal / Occupational & Environmental Medicine ^ | Mar. 28, 2022 | Reiji Kojima et al

[ConservativeMind]

Use of disinfectants by pregnant women may be a risk factor for asthma and eczema in their children, finds a population study.

Exposure to disinfectants in the workplace has been linked to asthma and dermatitis previously in the workers exposed, but few studies have looked at pregnancy and the subsequent development of allergic disease in children.

The odds of children having asthma or eczema were significantly higher if their mothers used disinfectant one to six times a week compared with the odds in children of mothers who never used disinfectants.

There was an exposure-dependent relationship between prenatal exposure to disinfectants and the odds of children experiencing these allergic conditions, with the children of mothers exposed to disinfectants every day having the highest odds of a diagnosis—26% greater for asthma and 29% greater for eczema than children of mothers who were never exposed to disinfectants.

…Nevertheless, the authors conclude, "Our findings indicate that exposure [to disinfectants] during pregnancy exerts an effect on allergies in offspring regardless of whether the mother returns to work when the child is 1 year old, and suggest an effect by exposure during pregnancy alone."

Several mechanisms that could explain the increased risk of allergic disease in children were suggested by the authors.

They included microbiome-mediated (disinfectants impact the gut and skin microflora of the mother and subsequently the child), immune-mediated (exposure to some chemical compounds during pregnancy impacts the immune response in the fetus), postnatal exposure (children inhaled or touched molecules of disinfectant on the skin of their mothers), or bias (mothers who use medical disinfectants frequently are likely to be more medically knowledgeable and have better access to healthcare).

[ConservativeMind]

It would appear detergents, soaps, and steam could be likely useful alternatives to disinfectants.

[ConservativeMind]

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[tired&retired]

Maybe germ phobic mothers have stressed babies and children!

[metmom]

An overly clean environment is NOT good for people.

People have become such dirt and germaphobes.

[logi_cal869]

I was having a similar conversation just the other day, though about over-cleanliness by parents of their children’s environment.

If a millenial mother knew what I did as a child, it might drive them to the psych ward.

In consideration of 2 years of gaslighting the public into hypochondria, I fully expect the rates of childhood asthma to multiply in the next few years. Perhaps then people can label it ‘causation’...since it’s obviously still debatable.

[logi_cal869]

Related:

The impact of birth mode of delivery on childhood asthma and allergic diseases–a sibling study

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3564396/?msclkid=32b5b05fb2df11eca621f2082e554c9a

[golux]

Now:

“Golux, your kids NEVER seem to get sick!”

Then:

“Egads, Golux! How COULD you let them crawl around on that dirt and stick all of those things in their mouths and feed them all sorts of unusual foods!”

Wife to Pediatrician, then:

“I’m sorry, my husband doesn’t agree.”

Wife to Pediatrician, now:

“.....”

(We don’t have, or need, a pediatrician.)

[dangus]

Is it the disinfectants themselves, or the sterile environment they create?

[Jane Long]

Wait a minute....didn’t we just spend the last two years spraying down/disinfecting EVERY surface, everywhere?

Now they tell these expectant moms this??

[Albion Wilde]

Oh, great. Hold a pandemic, scream hysterically about sanitizing all surfaces, and invite a bunch of pregnant women to the party. Nicely done, globalist scum.