15 Sneaky Ways Spring Cleaning Is Damaging Your Health by Laura Richards for Reader's Digest

​A clean home doesn't always equal a healthy home: Cleaning products can be loaded with dangerous chemicals. Read this before you spring clean this year.  In the article, several experts identify potential environmental exposures that can occur during home cleaning and give alternatives on how to reduce exposures.  In the article, I am quoted as follows:

Luz Claudio, PhD, professor of environmental medicine and public health at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has done a lot of research work on children's asthma, and she's particularly concerned about spray cleaners. "Some of these products contain chemicals that are known or suspected to be asthma triggers, such as ethanolamine and ammonium compounds," she says. She adds that simple vinegar and water in a spray bottle work just as well as any chemical combo purchased in a store.
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