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Indoor Allergins: Dust Mites
How to reduce dust mites:
• Reduce the humidity in your home below 64 percent relative humidity.
• Don’t make your bed in the morning, instead expose all blankets and sheets to allow for your bodies moisture to evaporate and thus prevent the dark, wet environment that mites love.
• At least once weekly, wash all bedding on a hot wash.
• Remove excessive pillows and stuffed animals from your bed.
• Place an additional pillowcase over your pillow and remove one mid week.
• Cover mattresses and pillows with micro-porous material to prevent infestation.
• Open a window after a shower or bath or while cooking (if possible) to let steam out.
• Use a vacuum cleaner with high filtration features and vacuum your mattress weekly for twenty minutes at a time.
• Use only natural cleaning products; they disclose all ingredients.
• Hang rugs or blankets outside as much as possible.
• Reduce clutter.
Next week: Indoor Allergins: Mold
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We often think that cleaning our homes with "cleaning products" leaves the surfaces clean; meanwhile, these products are full of harsh chemicals extremely harmful to us.
If you'd like to receive $120 in free products that contain tea tree oi, citric acid and thyme oil while cleaning and disinfecting your home then email me at nicolemillercosmetics@gmail.com
Be safe in your own home ;)
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A tip on dust mites, suck two used damp, but not wet, tea bags into your vacuum cleaner before use, and vacuum as normal. The properties in the tea kill the dust mites as they enter the vacuum and thus the air when released from the vacuum is Dust mite free.
Air bedding outside in the sunlight as much as possible, its not so much the air that helps kills of any bugs, but natural sunlight is one of the best anti-bacterial. hard to believe but ever notice how mold refuses to grow in direct sunlight.
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This came through the week I was ACTIVATED to work on the Swine Flu Initiative. It's working -- people are catching it.
Seriously. I agree that HEPA filters are wonderful. But I disagree that they are the only option. Newer furnaces come with new, inexpensive filtration systems. The electrostatic filter is 97% effective, but it is suggested to use 2 regular, replaceable filters with it (the filtration system is built to just slide these right in). Together, it is all as effective as a HEPA filter at a fraction of the size and cost.
HEPA filter: 24 inch by 24 inch by 11½ inch deep filters
Electrostatic: 24 inch by 16 inch by 8 inch, and that is the entire system, not just the filter and it includes the addition of the 2 replaceable regular filters with it
I purchased the electrostatic system when I purchased a new furnace.
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did you really need to break up the article this way? I hate this format!
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In the heating season, a HEPA-rated furnace filter makes sense. It has to be changed frequently to prevent breakthrough.
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How can you tell the % of humidity in your home? And do most dehumidifiers work well enough? I find my house is almost as humid as it is outside.
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Synthetic food additives and/or wheat gluten are most often the reason for hypersensitivities and allergic reactions to other irritants. Substances off gassing toxic fumes, i.e. Formaldehyde, from materials like carpeting, permanent press sheets and the harshness of chemical household cleaners contribute more to indoor air pollution than anything biological. Sorry, Morgaine, but the reason allergies aren't prevalent in the Winter is due to the dormancy of plant life.
Air filtering is Allopathic and only addresses the symptom and not the cause of the discomfort.
For me, I'd rather sleep with dust mites than a carcinogenic compound anytime!
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