Are you aware that most chemical cleaners and disinfectants are dangerous inhalants? The dangers of sniffing chemical inhalants are all too clear, but the dangers of accidental inhalation of household cleaners are often ignored. Our children are regularly the helpless victims of our own fastidious housework. When we try to keep our environment clean we may be inadvertently poisoning them! This article brings that fact to our attention. When teachers and janitors use sprays and cleaning products around schools they too could be adding to this problem. In one Massachusetts school, a teacher ignored a mother who asked her to stop cleaning a desk in front of her daughter, whose asthma was triggered by the cleaner. The teacher actually tried to defend her actions with a misguided attempt to explain that it was only a disinfectant! Teachers need to be educated too!
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I couldn’t agree more that teachers and schools need to be educated on environmental hazards to kids. When my daughter consistently came home with a runny nose and pink watery eyes I asked what was going on? She initially said nothing and that no one in her class as really sick, just blowing their noses a lot. Then she remembered that I stopped using Lysol, and Clorox wipes at home because of her allergies and sinuses. She Oh mommy my teacher gives us wipes to clean our eating area and our mats.
I explained to her teacher that she had allergic reactions to certain cleaners and disinfectants and if she could help please do not use them around her. I sent my daughter to school with hand sanitizers and wipes that did not cause the allergic reactions she had experienced before.
Are your classrooms safe? Is you child coming home with a runny nose that he/she didn’t leave home with?
Change your environment to Greener Living… and then pass it on to the teacher!
Angelique Bartholomew J.D.
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