Your dishwasher can be causing you and your family asthma. No, I am not being dramatic here.

New research is finding that dishwashing detergents have a potential to trigger or exacerbate asthma symptoms.

I'm going to give you the low down on what is going on, how to read labels, and how to find

out what brands are the safest on this episode of Heel I sell.

Hey, this is crazy, isn't it? Like, dishwashing detergent can be problematic.

Nobody told me this when I was a kid.

I remember so many times my mom coming back from work you know she would commute from New York coming

back to New Jersey and I'd be home and I'd help her out with the dishes before she came and started making dinner and it was so

regular to look under the sink and see like blue dawn or purple pom olive or green this and green that and maybe Ajax here for

did we use Ajax for the I don't know but all I know is Pomolev and Dawn were we were using and

We didn't think about it, but what I can tell you is I had asthma. I had asthma as a kid. I had asthma as a teenager. I remember the doctor said this is exercise induced asthma. But could it be that the dishwashing detergent and the

byproducts which I'm going to tell you about which are made were causing

respiratory distress and someone sensitive like me.

So if you have a loved one or you have asthma,

you have to listen to this or any respiratory issues,

even infections.

Household cleaning products, including those in dishwashing. House American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

What they did was they explored the relationship between the use of household cleaning products,

including dishwashing detergent, and the prevalence of asthma symptoms.

The name of this study, if you're interested in reading for yourself or sending it to someone

is the association between household cleaning products and asthma symptoms in adults and

it's a comprehensive cohort study. It was published in 2022. And really what they wanted to

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