Can you get sick from touching washing pod or vanish

[Justamumof2x]

So basically I mixed a big fairy washing pod and vanish in a bowl with warm water and started pre treating my sofa arms with a soaked cloth. Didn’t take long maybe 10 mins but since then my hands are little sensitive (no redness) but I also have a massive headache. It wasn’t until after that I realised I usually wear gloves for this but didn’t have any so went along with it anyways. I washed my hands afterwards.

am I overthinking this is this a legit concern 😂

Depends on what you mean by sick.

Yes, you can definitely have a reaction to it, as you've found.

Don’t mix cleaning products, especially bleach or those containing chlorine. You are conducting an uncontrolled chemistry experiment! Open some windows to ventilate the room immediately.

It’s unlikely that touching correctly diluted household cleaning products would give you a headache.
But it’s totally plausible that the fumes created my mixing different cleaning products in a closed room would!
Open the windows and breathe in some fresh air.
If your skin feels odd go and wash your hand again.

What happens if you put vanish powder or spray in the washing machine

If you mean 'ill' then probably not (please stop the Americanisms) - do you mean BEING sick, as in vomiting?

It’s unlikely that touching correctly diluted household cleaning products would give you a headache.

Laundry pods are not designed to be diluted in a bowl of water and used for a cleaning task by hand. They are extremely concentrated and designed to be dissolved in 20-30 litres of water inside a closed machine.

I don't know if it would cause a headache but they can certainly cause skin irritation.

OP please don't use laundry pods outside of your washing machine! They aren't designed for that and they can make you very ill - did you not hear the stuff warning about the "tide pod challenge"?

It’s enclosed so any gases would not escape. Chlorine fumes are not good for you

Because Brits never use the term “sick day” or “off sick” and haven’t for as far back as I can remember?

I don’t recall OP saying she was eating them?

Neither fairy, nor vanish have chlorine in them.

Don't use DIY mixtures on your soft furnishings. As others have said, they are ultra concentrated. Your sofa is going to attract dirt like mad and will look worse than before sooner rather than later.

You'll likely be fine, but contact dermatitis is likely what is going on with your hands. The headache may be related might not. But don't mix cleaners as a rule, there's plenty of deadly combinations out there.

Neither did I say that she was eating them. But I think before all that tide pod stuff came out a lot of people were unaware of just how concentrated that liquid inside a pod is, I think most people (myself included) assumed it was similar to liquid washing detergent, obviously not to be eaten but I would not expect it to cause burns to skin or for a small amount ingested accidentally to be deadly, you just wash your hands if some accidentally gets on them. Of course if you consider the much smaller amount in a pod compared with the amount that you would have to pour into the machine it is logical that it must be much more concentrated, but I had never had any reason to think about it to that extent.

When the tide pod challenge thing was reported in the news there was a lot of publicity about how these pods are really dangerous, more so to toddlers than teenagers or adults, but they were all changed to childproof packaging and a lot of discussion about how dangerous they could be, which is why I associate that news story with more general awareness of the strength of the chemicals inside washing pods.

Make you have a reaction yes, make you seriously ill? Not likely

One thing I notice is that when I get stuff out the machine or handle the pods, if I dont wash my hands after and then bite my nails or something, the taste is vile, it very much lingers so its very very concentrated stuff.

Wear gloves next time is all.

I would open the windows and ventilate the place well. As others said that it is not a good idea to mix cleaning product.

Does it really matter if the OP uses "Americanisms" ?

Are you able to understand what they are asking? If not - why are you here?

Do you think this is helpful?

You'd better go back in time and tell William Shakespeare, who used "sick" to mean "medically ill" in both Twelfth Night and Henry IV (at least).

Meanwhile, "ill" has only recently been used to mean "medically unwell". Until the 19th century it just meant "not great" in a more general sense.

Anyway, I don't think you can get sick from touching those cleaning products, OP, hope you're ok