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Common chemical hazards hiding in your home?

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    Anna Kooiman has your Fox Health Fix

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What happens thanks on now it is time for your -- -- -- -- around -- but this week's medical stories first up.

There -- some dangerous hazards.

That may be lurking in your home right now and fox is an appointment is here to explain some products that we should be on the lookout for what I actually yeah hateful content products can be harbor can be harboring harmful chemicals that have been linked to cancer.

Neurological disorders heart disease asthma in more in your bathroom for example.

Read the product labels carefully -- products like toothpaste air pressures and moisturizer is.

May contain toxic chemicals -- can find a word on the label that you can't pronounce a -- ends with -- That should be a tipoff that a product may contain toxic chemicals in your kitchen.

Don't microwave plastic containers are pour hot liquids in the them EPA can -- into your food using microwave -- -- -- not a plastic bowls.

Instead now here's another one that we can all relate to get our closets.

Air out your dry cleaning an estimated 85% of dry cleaners use -- solvent called perk.

And while partner does clean delicate -- without shrinking are fading studies show that inhaling high levels of parking cause.

Liver cancer kidney damage and even memory loss we have divided city products to be safe again have right he's man I could have happened got -- we're talking about in balances and poor audio processing skills.

They're believed to be contributing factors for learning disabilities autism and attention deficit disorder so some parents are now using auditory integration training or AIT if they have children with special needs.

AIT uses devices like the audio can -- -- and that your doctor they believed they deliver music it.

Specific frequencies through headphones and that it is helping their children.

Using -- team may be one way to improve autistic children social and emotional growth but a lack of research based conclusions.

Leaves many unconvinced at its effectiveness OK and very different story tattoo in factions what's this all about man this is scary the US Food and Drug Administration says people who get tattoos must be made aware of a risk of having contaminated -- eight.

An analysis released this week -- contaminated -- to -- caused at least 22 skin and soft tissue infections last fall alone.

The infections prompted an investigation by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It uncovered 22 confirmed cases for probable cases and 27 possible cases of contamination related infections in New York.

Washington Iowa and Colorado.

The Food and Drug Administration recommends people get medical attention if they get a rash or other abnormalities.

Around those -- areas he could discover -- with more -- Thank you got -- it now 26 minutes after the hour.

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