A truck spewing exhaust prompts many of us to hold our breath when it passes by on the street. But when it comes to pollution, your own home might be just as insidious.
People spend 90 percent of their time indoors, and your home can be two to five times as polluted as the air outside, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Poor indoor air quality can cause health problems like asthma or sinus issues. And many of those problems are triggered by what is in your house, including cleaning products, furniture and carpets.
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People spend 90 percent of their time indoors, and your home can be two to five times as polluted as the air outside, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Poor indoor air quality can cause health problems like asthma or sinus issues. And many of those problems are triggered by what is in your house, including cleaning products, furniture and carpets.
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INDOOR AIR as we now know is worse compared to outdoor air. Nature with mist, dew and rain has its way of keeping the air "washed" and kept clean. Also air is in constant circulation with breeze and wind. None of these takes place indoors.
WORST AIR is said to be the bedroom. Not only, air in the bedroom misses out on all of above as outdoor air, the volume of fabric from mattress, comforters, bed sheets, blankets, curtains and our clothes all have become excellent "collection centre" for dust and a very damaging pest called "dust mite".
We house millions (three to six millions)of dust mites in each mattress, and feed them with our dead skin flakes, which we "shed" through the night.
These dust mites are very very microscopic, and what they feed becomes droppings. So you can imagine what we breathe every night as we toss and roll in bed.
BEDROOMS are the dirtiest and most polluted area in any home and that is where we spend 6 to 10 hours daily (one third of a day and our life is in bedrooms)
Children, housewives, elderly and the sick rarely leave home,spend plenty of time at sleep and rest in bedrooms, and modern architecture has not allowed for air ventilation and circulation.
The resulting damage is breathing toxins, air that lacks sufficient oxygen content and polluted air from air purifiers, vacuum cleaners and air conditioners. http://bedroomupkeep.blogspot.com has so much to share and to act and correct the situation for the benefit of the whole family. Better to have discovered than to regret.