Make your bedrooms an Allergy free zone

It is winter and cooler weather means more time inside. For children or any family member with indoor allergies, it's important that the hours spent in the bedroom sleeping, playing and doing homework or just reading are allergy free. Indoor allergies cause them to have a stuffy or runny nose, itchy, watery eyes, sneezing, asthma and even skin rashes.
Asthma, allergy Immunology gives these tips to create an allergy free zone all winter. Reduce the clutter, put toys in a closed container; keep unused books at a minimum, cloths in the closet and dust regularly. In force children and family members to put all items back after using them.
Keep the cat or dog and any other pet out of the bedroom. Cat or Dog dander is known to trigger asthma and allergies. Declare the bedrooms a pet free zone. Also if you have pets consider bathing them at least once a week to reduce dander.
Limit all the snacks and goodies to the kitchen. Crumbs and other food particle invite bugs like the cockroach and other devilish critters. Inviting them into the bedroom where there dropping can cause severe allergy and asthma symptoms. Cockroaches need moisture and food to survive so making this special room a no food zone will keep these pests away.
Sweep symptoms away. If there is a carpet or rugs it's best to use a vacuum with Hepa filter regularly. It is very important to keep children and all members with allergies and asthma out of the room after vacuuming for two hours. This is the amount of time it will take for the stirred up particle to settle down.
Deter dust mite. Sheet, mattresses and pillows are a breeding ground for dust mites. Dust mites can cause a year around runny nose and itchy eyes. Washing all bedding every ten days with bleach will stop them dead. Also consider allergy free protective covers for the pillows and mattress.
Lower the humidity. Keeping the humidity between 45 to 50% range will keep mold and mildew from growing. Molds and mildew are another allergy, asthma infiltrator. These two are equally important to keep under control and equally as dangerous for allergies and asthma sufferers.
Preparing the room or furnace; Change the filter before winter and change again every three months. Buy filters with an 8 to 12 - MERV- rating anything lower is wasting your money and not collecting dust. One of the very best alternatives will be to use a room to room ultraviolet germicidal air purifier. This unit will not only filter but destroy over 99% of the bacteria; mold and mildew in the room make this a true allergy free zone. Also when need it can be move to any room to continue protection. Maintaining these will be a yearly tune-up with new HEPA filter and replacing the ultraviolet lamp.
Furnaces can be fitted with germicidal UV. There are two major types to use, induct or in circulating air handler. Induct is used when you what to control one or more areas with ultraviolet light. There are two voltages to choose from, 24 volt (wired inside furnace control unit) or 120 volt (normal plug in type). A second type is for people who use both heat and air conditioning. This unit provides dual elements to irradiate cooling coils, drip pan and all; air passing thru. Surprisingly they use very little electricity, pennies per day. And you can do the install yourself.
Allergies and asthma can be defeated and a much happier family will prevail. Fallow these step. These steps will help make indoor time as pleasant for you and your children as possible. This is a very good way to start the year.
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