The clothes are fragrant and white, which may cause allergies and premature puberty! Doctors teach to identify harmful additives from labels

Laundry serum is a common cleaning product in daily life, but have you noticed what additives does laundry serum contain? Dr. Xu Changjie of the Skin Clinic Department pointed out that some laundry additives, especially bleaching agents and artificial flavors, may remain in the clothing fiber and enter the body through the skin, which will have an impact on health. Xu Changjie also provides people with ways to identify the additives of laundry detergent to help everyone protect their own and their family’s safety.

Large analysis of laundry detergent additives! "These" are allergic elements and may also interfere with the endocrine system. Many laundry essences often have the effects of leaving fragrance and brightening whiteness. In this regard, Dr. Xu Changjie explained that the fragrance of laundry essence mainly comes from aromatic substances such as essence or oils. Some use phthalate as "flavoring agent"; while the brightening ingredients are generally known as radiant agents, which will produce blue light after absorbing ultraviolet light, making the clothes look whiter and brighter.

However, these additives in the laundry essence may be the metabolism that causes allergies such as skin inflammation, redness, and scratching! Dr. Xu Changjie said that the design of laundry serum will make the gloss easy to adhere to the clothes. In addition, the clothes themselves are fiber structures, and the gloss will remain in the gaps in the fibers, making it difficult to clean them thoroughly. When these remaining chemical substances come into contact with the skin, they may cause allergic reactions. When people wear these clothes, sweat will also dissolve the chemical substances left in it, making it easier to absorb by the skin.

In addition, the fragrance of laundry essence is an unnecessary external substance to the skin and may also cause allergic reactions. In addition, these substances are usually prone to irritation and can easily cause irritation to the eyes, nose, or skin. The phthalate in the aromatherapy agent is a type of plasticizer, which is "environmental hormone". After being absorbed by the human body, it is easily accumulated in fat, brain and other parts. Long-term exposure to environmental hormones may interfere with the normal operation of the human endocrine system, such as affecting the menstrual cycle of women, or increasing the risk of precocious puberty in children.

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Xu Changjie said that if a skin allergy with unknown causes occurs, you can go back to the details of life to understand the source of skin allergy. Some patients only clean up or fold down the laundry just washed clothes, and sweat rash on their hands and expensive hands are prone to recurrence. If the allergic part is severely damaged and the area covered by the clothes, or the laundry serum is replaced when allergic occurs, the doctor will suspect that the laundry serum has caused contact dermatitis. Dr. Xu also shared a case of a 25-year-old young woman. The patient bought inferior products because he was not concerned about the ingredients of laundry serum, which caused allergies in the body. He then recovered his health through treatment and changing laundry serum.

However, sometimes it is not easy to see whether there are harmful additives through the ingredient list. Xu Changjie said that if the laundry essence emphasizes the effects of "brightening" and "freshness", there may be ingredient ingredients; laundry essences with "fragrance" and "perfume" on the list usually represent the ingredients that are not natural extracts, and it is very likely that the ingredient is added. As for plasticizer content, it is an item that needs to be tested, and people can pay attention to whether there are relevant inspection marks on the laundry detergent packaging.

Xu Changjie also reminded that patients with infants, sensitive skin groups, as well as skin diseases such as anotopic dermatitis and chronic dermatitis, should pay more attention to the components of laundry serum because the skin barrier itself is relatively weak and prone to fine and micro-injury. Pregnant women should also avoid contacting environmental hormones during pregnancy to protect themselves and their babies. In addition to paying attention to the ingredients of laundry serum, Dr. Xu also suggested that you can fill in water several times when washing clothes to reduce the retention of laundry serum. At the same time, dry the clothes as much as possible to allow chemical substances to be released into the air, and avoid drying indoors causing prone substances to remain indoors, increasing the chance of contacting the eyes, nose and skin.