Cleaning creates as much damage as cigarettes
A 2018 study from the University of Bergen in Norway also demonstrated that using cleaning products once a week for 20 years may be the equivalent of smoking 20 cigarettes a day for 10 to 20 years.
The researchers were interested in the long-term effects that cleaning supplies had on health as much of the documented evidence has been on the short-term impact.
The study compared women who cleaned weekly and those who did not and found the forced vital capacity, or the amount of air a person can forcibly exhale after taking a deep breath, declined by 7.1 ml per year faster in women who worked as cleaners as compared to 4.3 ml per year in women who cleaned it home.
Senior study author Dr. Cecilie Svanes said in a statement:
“While the short-term effects of cleaning chemicals on asthma are becoming increasingly well documented, we lack knowledge of the long-term impact. 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.”
So, if your dog’s nose is 400 times stronger than a humans, what damage are we doing to the breathing, and neurological development of our pets? Would this be a factor why pets lives are becoming increasingly shorter even though science is supposed to be better for us?