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Source: The New York Times
Petrochemicals like
laundry
detergents can be highly toxic and dangerous in the home. Make
sure all detergents are kept out of the reach of children.
Consuming them can be severely hazardous to their health.
Detergents may contain strong alkalis,
phosphates or damaging (corrosive) acids, including
benzalkonium chloride. Swallowing such poisons can have
severe effects on many parts of the body. Some symptoms
include severe pain, vomiting blood, heart collapse,
breathing difficulty and burns or holes in the skin and
underlying tissue.
Swallowing these poisons can have
severe effects on many parts of the body. The prognosis
depends on the extent of damage done by the poison. Damage
continues to occur to the esophagus and stomach for several
weeks after the poison was swallowed. The faster you get
medical help, the better the chance for recovery.
Full article:
http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/poison/detergents/overview.html
The Toxicity of Laundry
Detergents
Laundry detergent contains up to eight
poisonous chemicals which erode our immune system - some of
which are the following:
- Phosphates
- Chlorine Bleach (Sodium Hypochlorite)
- Lye (Sodium Hydroxide)
- Ammonia
- Phenois
- Fillers
- Nitrilotriacetic Acid (NTA) & other
NTA's
It takes three washes with a nontoxic
detergent to remove the toxins put in from store-brand's toxic
detergents. If you do not have a nontoxic detergent, it takes 16
rinses to remove most of the poisons. How can people hope to
escape when they sleep between sheets which have been dipped in
eight toxic chemicals and then wear clothes all day which have
also been dipped in eight toxic chemicals?
Many areas of the US are requiring laundry
detergents to be low-phosphate. As a result, manufacturers
replaced phosphates with caustics which are 100 times more
caustic than phosphate detergents. Examples are:
- Lye (Sodium Hydroxide)
- Potassium Hypochlorite
These caustics clean by a chemical
reaction that burns or eats away other substances which wear out
clothes faster and dull the fabric's colors.
[David Kullberg, "Housework May Be Hazardous to Your Health"]
Since 1950, over 70,000 new chemical
compounds have been invented and dispersed into our environment
with only a fraction of these tested for human safety. What a
horror to think that this overwhelming flood of chemicals is
abusing our children and their children by using them as
experimental “guinea pigs” in this massive clinical toxic trial
which sweeps our country.
[Herbert L. Needleman, M.D., Philip J. Landrigan, M.D.,
Raising Children Toxic Free]
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