Roaches and Asthma

Keith

Keith

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Just a warning, roach skins and droppings can make (only those people who have cockroach allergies) who live with asthma have asthma attacks. So if someone in your family has asthma and you cant figure out whats causing the attacks, it COULD be the roaches.

 
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Hmm... I have noticed while digging through my hisser substrate that I start sneezing uncontrollably. I always thought it was a mold or something, but now I think its all the skins that fall down through the substrate cracks.

 
Cockroaches don't cause asthma. The original study says that only those children with cokroach allergies had more severe asthma attacks in an infested home. A similar study in Australia showed an increase in attack severity due to dust mites but not cockroaches. Cats and dogs are known to cause asthma attacks. Of course the chemical and pest control companies latch onto this tiny grain, forget the details and make wild claims to scare people into buying their cancer causing environmental poisons for the mighty buck.

 
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Well, it's not like I'm gonna ditch my roaches cuz they make me sneeze. Sneezing is fun actually. XD

 
My dad has asthma but I still keep my roaches, he doesnt go near them so I dont worry about it.

 
I've had skin allergies for a few months. I think it's my roaches or possibly the grain mites in the substrate. I just make sure to wash good after I mess with my colonies, which isn't too often. Only my dubias and fusca seem to cause the itchy roach rash :(

 
We breed ssveral thousand roaches and my son has asthma he had it even before we started.

I have never notice the roaches causing any of he's attack's.

 
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