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.
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.
Keith Londrie II is an authority on alternative medicines.
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