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I'm 23 weeks pregnant and used bleach water to clean my counters and i didn't wear gloves, will this harm my baby?

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Dr. Cynthia Archer answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Not likely.: Assuming you washed your hands afterward and did not have a extremely concentrated bleach solution, you should have nothing to worry about. Bleach can cause chemical damage to your skin in uncommon circumstance, but it's not likely that you absorbed any through the skin.

Dr Beck and another doctor agreed

Answered 9/28/2016

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