NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children exposed tocleaning products and other household chemicals before or afterbirth may be at increased risk of breathing problems, results of astudy published Wednesday hint.

British researchers found that young children whose mothersfrequently used household chemicals during pregnancy were atgreater risk of wheezing than their peers.

The more often their mothers used products like bleach,disinfectants, glass cleaner and insect sprays, the greater thechildren’s odds of developing a wheezing problem by age 7.

The findings, published in the European Respiratory Journal, donot prove that household chemicals directly caused the children’slung problems.

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