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Urea formaldehyde:

In the 1970’s, urea formaldehyde was used to build homes and a cheap efficient material. More common symptoms of being exposed to urea formaldehyde would be breathed through the air. People who are especially sensitive to urea formaldehyde are people who have asthma. Urea formaldehyde is also known to cause cancer. Common cancers that are caused from urea formaldehyde exposures are nasopharynx, leukemia and sinonasal cancer. Cancer is a heavy side effect that was often found in products / materials handled found with urea formaldehyde.

Bleach:

Bleach is a common household product used to clean surfaces. Bleach is known to cause respiratory infections such as asthma. There was a study conducted by Matulonga et al., (2016), that conducted research whether there was an associated exposure of non-allergic asthma in woman who used bleached weekly. Results showed that there was a significant precedence in women who used bleached weekly and those who developed coughs and were found to have high neutrophil counts (Matulonga et al., 2016).

Sources: https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search2/f?./temp/~wUhhog:4

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/formaldehyde.html

https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search2/f?./temp/~wHpnOm:1

https://www.resmedjournal.com/article/S0954-6111(16)30145-7/fulltext