DRYING LAUNDRY INDOORS COULD BE DEADLY!

Drying your wet clothes indoors “can pose serious health risk”. Damp clothes help deadly spores breed, warn doctors:

 

Drying washing indoors can pose a serious health risk to people with weakened immune systems or severe asthma, doctors have warned.

• Drying washing indoors causes moisture levels to rise indoors by 30%
• This creates an ideal breeding ground for mould spores to grow
• Experts are particularly worried about Aspergillus fumigatus spores
• Rising numbers of patients have been treated after inhaling them
• Spores cause lung infections such as pulmonary aspergillosis

Aspergillosis is the name of a group of conditions caused by a fungal mould called aspergillus. It usually affects the windpipe, sinuses and lungs, but it can spread to anywhere in the body. Depending on a number of factors, the symptoms of aspergillosis can vary in severity from mild wheezing to coughing up blood.

As with today's scenario, the rapid increase in the population and congestion of space; lot of people have resorted to drying their laundry indoors. A recent study by Professor David Denning and his team at the National Aspergillosis Centre in Manchester has discovered that drying laundry indoors poses a serious health risk. 

Clothes draped on drying frames or warm radiators can raise moisture levels in the home by up to 30 per cent, creating ideal breeding conditions for mould spores. Experts are particularly concerned about Aspergillus Fumigatus spores, which can cause lung infections.

Professor Denning said: ‘One load of wet washing contains almost two liters of water, which is released into the room. Most of us are either immune to the fungus which grows in these humid conditions, or have a sufficiently healthy system to fight the infection.

But in asthma sufferers it can produce coughing and wheezing, and in people with weak or damaged immune systems, such as cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, AIDS patients and people who have an auto immune disease, the fungus can cause pulmonary aspergillosis – a condition which can cause irreparable, and sometime fatal, damage to the lungs and sinuses. 

Craig Mather, a father of three from Bolton, contracted tuberculosis in 1997. The disease left his lungs weak and aggravated the problems he had been left with after childhood asthma.

A previous study carried out by the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow found many homes had too much moisture. Up to one third of this moisture was attributed to drying laundry. The researchers have now called on house builders to build dedicated drying areas into new housing to address the serious health concerns and with the aim to curb it successfully. 

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