Hello, I haven't been on in a while as I've been attending to our 4 month old that all of you helped answer so many questions about before he arrived!

I actually have a question regarding aerosol chemicals and their effect on getting pregnant, as well as the risks after conception of being around these chemicals. I'm doing this research for a co-worker, who is along with her husband trying to become pregnant. We use contact cleaner where we work, not very often in her role, but enough to where she has concerns that it may affect her ability to get pregnant, and possibly have consequences while she's pregnant.

Can anyone help with this? I have a bottle here with labels and chemical listings if anyone has expertise and needs more details.

Thanks in advance!

I cannot advise you from a knowledgeable point of view because I really don't know, but I would advise her to stay as far from it as possible. Sometimes when your instinct tell you to do something, it's best to follow that. It seem to me there is a possibility.

I'm not sure what the effects on conception or the conception rate is, not being a doctor or anything, but I would think the bigger risk would be after conception. Inhaling the aerosol would put the chemicals in her blood stream and could have mutagenic effects on the forming fetus or possibly a toxic effect causing miscarriage. Not knowing whats in it you could look up the chemical fact sheets (which they should have at her workplace). It may take some asking and prying but somewhere they should have the full ingredient label and the side effects, etc. You can then look up each chamical for know issues.