It is common knowledge that the pregnant mother requires a clean environment to live in for her own health and that of the fetus, the ladies are also supposed to maintain physical exercise during pregnancy as a way of keeping healthy.
Undertaking domestic chores that include washing and cleaning that house is one such duty.
The studies conducted on these special women, however, reveal that it is not only dangerous to expose yourself to such cleaning chemicals but it poses a range of disease infection to the unborn.
One such finding purports that those women who are exposed to the cleaning products when they are pregnant, or shortly after giving birth, increase the chances of their children developing asthma.
According to the study, exposing the child to chemicals contained in the cleaning products has a major role to play (up to 41%) in increasing the risk of the child developing asthma up to the age of 7.
This study took into account the family medical history and other predisposing factors to asthma.
The danger lies in the chemicals contained in these cleaning products.
These chemicals have been linked to increased risk of asthma with additional evidence from studies of workers who have exposure to cleaning chemicals.
There is a higher risk if the family has a history of asthma.
The good news is that there are safer options of cleaning products and these are the ones pregnant mothers ought to consider seriously.
You can even make cleaning products at home using simple ingredients like Baking soda, white vinegar, lemon juice and essential oils.
These are friendly to the environment and their recipes can easily be found in books or from the internet.
Natural cleaning products also offer a safer alternative.
Some precautions are also helpful for mothers while using these products for example when you are using any commercial cleaning product that contains bleach or spraying air freshener in your home, make sure that the area is well ventilated.
Open all windows and doors and turn on air fans so as to help circulate the air and reduce fumes.
Precautions are better taken to reduce chances of infecting your unborn; others include wearing protective clothing, reading the user instructions and the warnings carefully before using the chemicals and never mixing chemicals such as ammonia and bleach.
Avoid cleaning tight spaces like the oven since such areas have poor ventilations.