How To Create A Dust Free Bedroom
If you are dust-sensitive, especially if you have conditions such as asthma or allergies, you can reduce some of your suffering by making a "dust-free" bedroom. Dust contains many of the following:
- molds
- fibers
- dander from dogs, cats, and other animals
- as well as tiny dust mites.
These mites, which live in bedding, upholstered furniture, and carpets, thrive in the summer and die in the winter. They will, however, continue to thrive in the winter if the house is warm and humid. The particles seen floating in a shaft of sunlight include dead mites and their waste products. The waste products actually provoke the allergic reaction.
Recent studies show that such organic matter may be an important component of air pollution, and may even have significant effects on the weather!
The routine cleaning necessary to maintain a dust-free bedroom also can help reduce exposure to cockroaches, another important cause of asthma in some allergic people.
You probably cannot control dust conditions under which you work or spend your daylight hours. To a large extent, however, you can eliminate dust from your bedroom. To create a dust-free bedroom, you must reduce the number of surfaces on which dust can collect.
In addition to getting medical care for your dust allergy and/or asthma, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases suggests the following guidelines.
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