Los Angles: A recent study has brought out that making use of spray cleaners as little as once a week increased the asthma risk by nearly over 50 percent.

But whether or not the cleaning products or sprays are a key reason of asthma, or just a cause for people, who already have the problem (asthma), is not clear from this epidemiologic analysis that was issued in the October issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

But, the study researchers think that spray cleaners can be a reason of new-onset asthma, as the people included in this analysis didn’t have asthma problem or asthma symptoms at the beginning of the analysis.

Study lead author, Jan-Paul Zock, a research fellow at the Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology at the Municipal Institute of Medical Research in Barcelona, Spain, said, “Cleaning sprays, especially air fresheners, furniture cleaners and glass cleaners, had a particularly strong effect. The risk of developing asthma increased with the frequency of cleaning and number of different sprays used, but on average was 30 to 50 percent higher in people regularly exposed to cleaning sprays than in others.”

Zock cautioned that the crucial thing users should know is that cleaning sprays available for sale in all supermarkets are not risk-free, and their usage may also involve grave health problems.

Earlier study has detected a relationship between asthma and being employed as a professional cleaner. Further studies have also noticed a relation between respiratory signs and certain cleaning products, but Zock and his co-workers desired to study if normal household exposures to these products would have any effect on asthma growth.

Drawing on a 10-country database, known as the European Community Respiratory Health Survey, the scientists keyed out over 3,500 people without any asthma history or symptoms. All reported being responsible for the cleaning of their homes.