During the Democratic convention the Reverend Al Sharp ton quoted a shocking statistic: One third of children in Harlem suffer from asthma. This should not be completely surprising since asthma cases have been increasing steadily over the years, especially in cities, extending recently during the rollback of some key environmental laws, but it's a trend we must turn back.

While parents have only limited control over the environment where they raise their children, is a personal environmental decision they can take that will dramatically reduce the symptoms their children experience. Any drop the soap, and not just the detergent. It is the detergent used to wash clothes and leaves their children. 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, only a source of serious pollution, and a component in global warming.

If you're 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 U.S. chemical industry has a strong lobby and cheap manufacturers of phosphates help keep your 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 clothes and newborn leaves powdered detergent in the family! That would give their delicate skin rashes baby, not to mention an increase in crying and crankiness. There are many readily available natural detergents that are phosphate-free and worth the time to find them.

We have noticed tremendous improvements for children and adults when their clothes and sheets are consistently washed in a phosphate-free detergent. By itself this change may not alleviate all 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 people sleep is between two thousand and ten thousand more timing sensitive to chemical and electromagnetic pollution that while he is awake.

When a child's pajamas are washed with a chemical irritant and sleep on bedclothes containing those same toxins, their immune system is challenged nightly, during a time that is most vulnerable. The body's nutritional reserves are consumed in that battle and are less able to fend off 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. There is a huge leap to imagine that removing a respiratory irritant from the sleeping environment, where a person spends half his time, will produce an improvement in a child's ability to breathe.

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