Allow fresh air to enter your home.

Avoid using aerosols, floor polish/wax, insecticides, pesticides, and other chemical solutions. Use biologically-based housecleaners and pesticides.

Up to 80% of children with asthma are allergic to one or more of the following: pollen, dust mites, mold, pet dander.

According to Dr. Doris Rapp (M.D., I.A.A.A., I.A.A.P.), author of the best seller Is This Your Child, every sufferer of asthma and allergies should have at least one environmentally-safe room, which would include an air cleaner, while incorporating many of the tips listed on this page.

Create a school asthma care management team for your child, if your child has asthma. Asthma is the leading cause of school absenteeism. Plus, school is one of the harshest environments for children with asthma. Include teachers, counselors, etc. on this team. Meet with them and explain your child’s condition. Describe your child’smedications along with its side effects. Provide them with phone numbers where you and other guardians can be reached. You and other asthma care mgmt. team members should collaborate to help your child avoid environments with inadequate ventilation, animals, chemicals. Rigorous exercise may also want to be avoided as much as possible.

Use perfumes, candles, nail care products, and sprain medications moderately, if at all.

Keep your basement dry and clean. Basements are prime breeding grounds for molds and fungi.

Wash rugs and furniture often.

Discard moldy and mildewey items.

Do not use wood burning stoves or fireplaces.

Vacuum frequently.

Replace pillows (havens for dust mites) with 100% cotton pillowcases stuffed with 100% cotton towels. Definitely do not use feather-stuffed pillows.

Use 100% cotton or wool bedding and 100% cotton curtains.

Enclose bookcases and toy boxes. Only bring stuffed animals that are 100% cotton into your home. Avoid synthetic toys.

Close and seal heating ducts with heavy-duty aluminum foil.

Avoid odors and chemicals from photography, ceramic glazes, and oil painting.

If possible, replace carpet with vinyl, hardwood, or tile flooring.

Avoid mattresses and furniture made from foam rubber or polyurethane. Use 100% cotton mattresses.

Replace or remove moldy and dusty wallpaper, buy solid wood furniture instead of plastic furniture, and wipe walls and hard floors with a damp cloth regularly.

Install air conditioning in your home if you haven’t already, and keep windows closed during high pollen season. But do have windows that open since outdoor air can refreshen the air in your home.

One way to decrease your child’s odds of contracting asthma is to breastfeed he or she for at least the first 4 months. According to the American Lung Association, this will substantially reduce their risk of getting asthma.

When outside in the cold air, keep a scarf wrapped around your mouth and nose. This will warm up the air you breath.

Eat foods high in magnesium.

Eat onions. They reduce inflammation.

Drink lots of water.

Monitor the Relative Humidity in the home with a moisture meter: Relative-Humidity-Sensor.com

Use an air purifier, since you will probably find removing all the sources of asthma and allergy triggers from your home to be impossible.

• According to the American College of Allergies, 50% of all illness is aggravated or caused by polluted indoor air.
  
• To begin with, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) themselves declare that indoor air is anywhere from 2 to 10 times more hazardous than outdoor air.
  
• The EPA also warns us that the indoor air quality epidemic is thenation’s number one environmental health problem.
  
• Today’s homes and buildings are built air-tight, with energy-efficiency in mind, as a result of the energy crisis of the 1970s. Their air-tight construction keep airborne pollutants trapped inside, and nature’s air-cleansing agents outside. Is it any wonder that statistics for asthma problems began rising sharply around the same time that homes and buildings began to be built this way?
  
• In fact, a recent study found that the allergen level in super-insulated homes is 200% higher than it is in ordinary homes.
  
• Plus, according to Scientific America, a baby crawling on the floor inhales the equivalent of 4 cigarettes a day, as a result of the outgassing of carpets, molds, mildews, fungi, dust mites, etc.
  
  
• Most people spend well over 90% of their time inside. In which case, indoor air is going to impact our health far more than outdoor air.

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Because the amounts and types of individual pollutants removed by plants differ from species to species, and because the levels of specific pollutants often vary significantly from home to home, there’s no set number of plants recommended by experts for maximum results. Instead, the general rule of thumb is “the more plants, the healthier the air.” This purification power can be maximized by choosing those plants found to have the greatest air cleaning abilities. Following is a list of 20 of the top choices for removing gaseous pollutants from indoor air.

Best Air Purifying House Plants

1. Boston fern (Nephrolepis exaltata Bostoniensis). This is the number one plant in overall purifying performance.

2. Areca palm (Chyrsalidocarpus lutescens). Another top overall performer.

3. Lady palm (Rhapis excelsa).

4. Bamboo palm (Chamaedorea seifrizii). One of the top rated plants for removing formaldehyde, benzene and trichloroethylene. Also noted for high transpiration rates.

5. Rubber plant (Ficus robusta). Excels at removing formaldehyde.

6. Dracaena Janet Craig (Dracaena deremensis). Excels at removing formaldehyde.

7. English Ivy (Hedera helix). Excels at removing formaldehyde.

8. Dwarf date palm (Phoenix roebelenii). Especially recommended for removing xylene.

9. Ficus alii (Ficus macleilandii alii).

10. Peace lily (Spathiphyllum sp.). Excellent for removing alcohols, acetone, formaldehyde, benzene, and trichloroethylene.

11. Corn plant (Dracaena fragrans Massangeana). Another good choice for removing formaldehyde.

12. Golden pothos (Epipremnum aureum).

13. Kimberly queen fern (Nephrolepis obliterata). Good for removing formaldehyde and alcohols.

14. Florists mum (Chrysanthemum morifolium). A good seasonal choice for removing formaldehyde, benzene, and ammonia.

15. Gerbera daisy (Gerbera jamesonii). Has a high transpiration rate.

16. Dracaena warneckei (Dracaena deremensis warneckei). Excels at removing benzene.

17. Dragon tree (Dracaena marginata). A top choice for removing xylene and trichloroethylene.

18. Schefflera (Brassaia actinophylla).

19. Spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum).

20. Weeping fig (Ficus benjamina).

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