Bad ingredient ... bleach has been linked to an increase in flu and other respiratory illnesses in children. Picture Thinkstock Source: Supplied
BEING too clean can be a health risk with a new study linking the use of bleach in the home to higher rates of flu, tonsillitis, bronchitis and pneumonia in kids.
Researchers are speculating that airborne irritant compounds released during cleaning with bleach may damage the lining of lung cells, sparking inflammation and making it easier for infections to take hold.
Bleach might also be suppressing the immune system, the Belgian research suggests.
Researchers looked at exposure to bleach among 9,000 children in five European countries and found respiratory infections were higher among children whose parents used bleach to clean their homes.
Researchers speculate ... bleach may irritate the lining of lung cells making kids susceptible to infection. Picture Thinkstock Source: ThinkStock
The study found the risk of flu was 20 per cent higher in children who lived in households where bleach was used and recurrent tonsillitis 35 per cent higher.
The risk of any recurrent infection was 18 per cent higher among children whose parents regularly used bleach to clean.
"The high frequency of use of disinfecting cleaning products — caused by erroneous belief, reinforced by advertising, that our homes should be free of microbes — makes modest effects reported in our study of public health concern," the study published in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine says.
The study found the use of bleach was common in Spain with 72 per cent of parents using it to clean the home but rare in Finland where only 7 per cent of households used it.
Children exposed ... to more bacteria at a young age are less likely to develop allergies studies show. Picture Thinkstock. Source: ThinkStock
All Spanish schools were cleaned with bleach, Finnish schools were not.
The research follows previous studies which found infants who encountered a wider range of bacteria had a reduced risk of developing allergic diseases later in life.
A 2011 study of over 400 children by the University of Copenhagen found a direct link between the number of different bacteria children had and the risk of development of allergic disease later in life.
Reduced diversity of intestinal microbes during infancy was associated with increased risk of allergic disease at school age.
There has been a fourfold increase in allergies in Australia in the last 20 years and they are costing $30 billion a year in medical costs and lost work days.
One in ten children develop a food allergy before their first birthday and overall one in five Australians is allergic.
Last year the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in the US reported that infants exposed to rodent and pet dandruff, roach allergens and other bacteria in the first year of life were less likely to suffer from allergies, wheezing and asthma.
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