Children’s Health Environmental Coalition

Thanks to the Children s Health Environmental Coalition www.checnet. org). 

If you aren t set up to wash cloth diapers at home, conventional disposable diapers aren t a good option. One widely quoted study (published in Archives of Environmental Health and conducted by Anderson Laboratories back in 1999) found mice exposed to VOC chemicals emitted by conventional disposables had asthmalike reactions. They also contain chlorine and have high-tech chemical gel cores that activate when your baby pees to lock in moisture. The Children s Health Environmental Coalition says this absorbent material—sodium polyacrylate— could cause respiratory and skin irritations in occupational settings (where exposure is higher than with diaper use). We wonder how safe can that much chemical activity that close to a baby s genitals be twenty-four hours a day ... 

The Children s Health Environmental Coalition (www.checnet.org) estimates a baby goes through an average of 8,000 diapers from birth to toilet training. For more information on the 8,000 your infant will go through ... 

CHEC s HealtheHouse The Resource for Environmental Health Risks Affecting Your Children. Los Angeles, CA Children s Health Environmental Coalition, http //www.checnet.org/ ehouse (accessed on March 13, 2006). 

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