Timely Tips
To reduce mold, keep humidity low, use a dehumidifier, or clean with anti-mold cleaners.
Most dirt comes from your shoes. This includes pesticides, lead based paint in the soil and other contaminants that could trigger your allergy. Try instilling a no-shoes-indoor policy.
Read the labels of your cleaning products. Ammonia and chlorine are respiratory irritants. Petroleum based cleaners can cause headache, major cramps and muscle aches in people with MCS.
It’s a good idea to throw out or recycle old newspapers and magazines and limit your collection of trinkets and oddments, so there will be fewer nooks and crannies for dust to accumulate on.
Wear a dust mask when working on your lawn or pruning hedges to keep from inhaling pollen or mold. But better than that, just give the yard job to someone else.
One way of reducing your allergy is by cleaning your home. While you’re at it, remember to clean windows, bookshelves, air-cond vents.
When driving through high pollen count areas, keep your car windows rolled up and set the air-conditioner to recirculate.
If you have cold or a runny nose, avoid dairy products because they worsen congestion.