Study: If You’ve Got Asthma, Drying Laundry Inside Your Home Might Be Unhealthy

[Iowegian]

Conflating home dryers and how to manage asthma is missing the point.

Different people that suffer from asthma have different triggers.

In order to avoid the triggers, it's useful to have a lot of control over the home's environmental system. Most obviously, humidification and air quality.

A European dryer that vents inside the house, spewing huge amounts of clothing fibers and moisture without an HVAC system that can deal with that is a big problem.

 

[lavamat_jon]

I'm sorry Iowegian but where do you get your facts from?

 

Dryers here either vent outdoors/through an open window (clue is in the name) - moisture being vented directly outside, or the condenser units condense the water hence do not spew any more moisture into a room than a dryer that vents directly outdoors.  The only exceptions being some compact dryer units, but again most have the facility to vent outdoors.  As for "huge amounts" of clothing fibres, again untrue due to the very efficient filter system on dryers here.

 

Back to the topic of the thread, I've been drying laundry indoors for years now and haven't noticed any detrimental effects whatsoever.  In fact I'm inclined to agree with an earlier poster - you are probably going to get more moisture inside from a shower running or pans boiling on the hob than with the gradual drying of laundry.

 

Jon

 

[foraloysius]

Jon,

Do you have asthma? Just wondered. If yes drying laundry inside MIGHT be a problem. If you don't have it's more likely it's not bad for you.

Scientific research is often misinterpreted. They have done a kind of research and drew a conclusion. But you have to keep in mind what the outcome was under what circumstance and what variables were used.

What they don't say is that drying inside is bad for everybody, nor do they say that drying inside for everybody with asthma.

Interesting is that they discovered that up to a third of the moisture inside homes was caused by drying laundry inside.

So the conclusion of the reports is that those who are sensitive to it could better avoid drying inside because up to a third of the moisture inside is caused by drying laundry indoors. That's all.

 

[retro-man]

With all this talk about drying indoors, I am going to HD today to pick up an indoor drying rack. Our vacation place is soooo dry I can't breath. I hung towels on a few things last weekend and it helped alot. So I guess retire the dryer for the winter and moisturize the air amd bring a humidifier also.
Jon