Be An Allergy Warrior

Studies show that people spend about 90 percent of their time indoors. When you fail to keep your home clean, you contribute to air pollution in your living spaces. This situation can be dangerous for your children who may develop allergies, asthma, or serious lung infections. To improve your home’s indoor air quality, you need to make your home free of allergies and asthma. Some steps you can take involve cleaning and maintenance while others require the use of home remedies and changes in your children’s bedrooms.

Maintenance involves dusting your home regularly to keep harmful dust mites at bay. Additionally, you should wipe down the surfaces of your tables, cabinets, and other furniture since these areas are likely to contain many allergens. Ask an HVAC services technician to do a maintenance check of your home’s HVAC unit. If you have dust trapped in your home’s vents, your unit will distribute the dust throughout the rooms of your home. Finally, use air filters with high MERV ratings in your HVAC system to trap larger numbers of allergen causes. Be sure to make air filter changes often.

In your children’s bedroom, add hypoallergenic bedding to reduce the number of harmful allergens that your children breathe while they are sleeping. To combat allergies, you can try certain home remedies, but be sure to consult your children’s pediatrician first. Explore the following infographic to learn about more ways that you as a parent can armor up for the allergy battle and ease allergies for your children.