My Filpino maid doesn't want to do dishes after ironing or even cooking anything. Saying that it can make her hands "shaky". How on earth it is possible to give her half an hour to relax every time she does cooking or do ironing before laundry or dish washing. I am not aware of any such illness neither believe in it. I do cooking and dish washing side by side... OrWashing hands right after ironing cloths. She is so persistent about it that I had to come here and ask if it's true?
Our previous maid said something similar as well. She said if you iron then work with water you will get sick, I assume cooking is similar because it involves heat.
Just let her do all the ironing at night before she goes to bed, and have her lunch right after cooking.