Prenatal use of cleaning and scented products and its association with childhood asthma, asthma symptoms, and mental health and developmental comorbidities
Journal of Asthma Sep 02, 2019
Bably M, et al. - Among low-income families in Karachi, Pakistan, researchers explored the connection between prenatal exposure to cleaning and scented products with childhood asthma, asthma symptoms, and mental and developmental comorbidities. Participants in the study were 400 children from the Koohi Goth Women’s Hospital. To investigate the link between the use of cleaning and scented products during pregnancy and seven different outcome variables, they used multivariable logistic regression analysis. Among children whose mothers reported using cleaning products or scented products during pregnancy, the odds of nocturnal cough were significantly high. In children whose mothers reported using scented products during pregnancy, mental health co-morbidities were threefold. Findings revealed that there was no statistically significant association between the prenatal use of cleaning or scented products with current asthma status or nocturnal wheezing symptoms, shortness of breath, and tightness of the chest among children.
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