Coping With Allergies 5 Simple Steps to End Seasonal Distress

 

Coping With Allergies

5 Simple Steps to End Seasonal Distress

  Step 1 - Create A Pollen Retardant Bedroom 

During your lifetime, you will spend 30 percent or more of your life in your bedroom. You may in fact, spend in excess of 250,000 hours in your bedroom during your life. Did you know, most people become sicker during the night, because they sleep in pollen and allergy infested bedrooms?

 

During the night, our body's job is to heal. However for people with severe seasonal allergies, healing is not possible when the air you breathe for hours on end, during your "restorative" or peak hours of healing, is clouded with environmental contaminants.

 

What are you going to do about it? Get RID of the allergens. You'll start feeling BETTER and MORE REFRESHED on waking, so your body will be more prepared to defend itself against foreign invaders that enter your home or atmosphere during the day.

 

Start by riding your room of drapes, heavy curtains and other unnecessary items that serve as havens for dust mites, pollen and other allergens. Have a box filled with stuffed toys? Get rid of it. Put it anywhere BUT your bedroom. Remove all leather products, plants, damp towels and other objects where mold and other allergens can grow and infest your bedroom. That means - yes, cleaning out your closet.

 

Leave your bedroom as bare as possible.

 

JUST SAY NO TO PETS. Even if you are not allergic to your animal, your beloved friend may carry pollen into your bedroom from the outdoors. So keep your bedroom sacred.

 

Use an air filter to clear the air and keep your windows closed. And please, please wash your sheets, blankets or other comforters weekly. And make sure you use synthetic, not down or feather materials.

 

 

Step 2 - Buy Products That EAT Dust

 

Dusting your home is useless.

 

Here is what happens. You brush away dust. It flies into the air - then settles back in its original, happy, pollen filled allergy conducive home just hours from the time you cleaned.

What's the problem? You are not actually cleaning! What you need to do is invest in products that actually REMOVE dust from your home. How do you do that? Start with an air filter.

 

When you dust, find a product that captures dust and removes it, one that doesn't sprinkle it throughout the air. A damp cloth is a good start, but you can also find dust-specific products made to capture and eliminate dust when cleaning.

 

 

Step 3 - Wear a Mask

 

Michael Jackson knew a thing or two about illness. If you plan to spring clean, or venture out-of-doors on a pollen filled day, wear a mask. Why? It will DRAMATICALLY REDUCE YOUR EXPOSURE to pollen, dust and other seasonal allergens.

 

Worried you'll look weird? Don't. You'll stop worrying when you start realizing how fantastic you feel, because you are preventing nasty seasonal allergy invaders from entering your nasal passages. Do it when you clean your home. Do it while traveling.

 

Who cares what people think. If you are really worried, write a funny joke on your mask. "I'm a victim of allergies." People will stare for a minute, laugh, then go about their business. Better to look silly for a few minutes than suffer for days in sickness.

 

If nothing else, you should always wear a mask when cleaning your home, or when cleaning anything. When you clean, you naturally stir up allergens and irritants in your environment. The result? You may suffer needlessly for hours on end.

 

While you are at it, if you are cleaning, invest in a vacuum with a HEPA filter, one that automatically removes common allergens from the carpets and more. Be sure to replace the filter regularly. When it comes to emptying your vacuum cleaner, see if you can find someone that is not as allergy sensitive to lend a hand.

 

Vacuum daily. You'll feel TONS better, even if you vacuum a different room each day of the week. Keep things interesting, and you'll find caring for your health much less of a chore and much more of a lifesaving adventure.

 

 

Step 4 - Invest In Zippered, Impenetrable Covers For Box Springs, Mattresses, Couches, Pillows And Other Fabrics

 

You don't have to sterilize your home in a funky, unfriendly way. But you should get some allergy retardant zippered coverings you can place over pillows, box springs, mattresses, couches and other objects that attract pollen, dust, and other allergens. You can then cover them in fanciful, clean and attractive coverings to limit your exposure to allergens, and improve your overall health and wellness.

 

If you don't want to cover your furnishings, you can at least get plastic, zippered bags to cover the clothes that hang in your closet for months on end.

 

You can cover items in your bedroom (your sanctuary) to ensure the 30 % or more of your life you spend there is quality time. Cover at least ¼ of the objects in your home, and you will improve your symptoms by as much as 75% or more. This simple step will make a significant impact in the way you feel, breathe and live your life.

 

It's easier than you think to lead a life that is virtually symptom free. Now, let's move on to our next most important step.

 

 

Step 5 - Get Some Electrostatic Charged Cleansing Cloths

 

These fanciful cloths are growing in popularity. You can use them to swipe out the interior of your car, your desk at work, your home - anywhere and everywhere known allergens may be hiding out.

 

These cloths don't just collect dust and other allergens - they eliminate them. You don't have to worry about allergens flying around when you use these handy devices. Because they are portable, you can take them with you anywhere, even while on vacation!

 

 

Not sure where to find these handy-dandy items? Start at your local hardware and supply shop - you know, places like Home Depot. Can't find what you are looking for there? Then start shopping online.

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