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AsthmaSort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - Insulations are made from dozens of different materials. Many people are concerned about the possible negative health effects.
- How to minimize allergy and asthma triggers this time of year.
- Tips to help you keep triggers at bay.
- When outfitting or decorating your home, there are sensitive choices you can make if you have asthma.
- While air filtration isn't a cure-all, when used with source control and ventilation it can help improve indoor air quality.
- Reducing the sources of triggers, and exposure to triggers is called "environmental control," and is a cornerstone of modern asthma management.
- Simple ways to control asthma and allergies.
- A major study of inner city children with asthma concludes that positive environmental interventions in the children's homes will result in a lessening of the children's asthma-related symptoms and an increase in their symptom-free days...Notably, the study found no difference in the improvement experienced by children who lived in homes with carpet versus children from homes with other types of flooring.
- Home interventions to reduce asthma triggers can curb soaring health care costs and improve health outcomes.
- As more people grasp that poor indoor air quality might be the cause of their illnesses, they are cleaning up their indoor environment and improving their ventilation.
- How the workings of a vacuum affect how well it cleans and the health of your home.
- The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) and the Alliance for Healthy Homes (Alliance) have announced plans to join forces.
- Help for cleaning green from Sierra Club Green Home.
- The asthma & allergy friendly™ Certification Program administered by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) in partnership with the research organization, Allergy Standards Limited (ASL), announced on November 17th, 2009 that it has developed and adopted a certification standard and testing protocol for Non-Disinfecting Hard Surface Spray Cleaning Products.
- If the gift looks or smells moldy or promotes sneezing or other symptoms - send it on to other pastures.
- This study reveals that a considerable percentage of the U.S. population reports adverse health effects or irritation from fragranced products, (abstract only).
- How to make your home a healthier place.
- Likely there is room for improvement. Here is what to do.
- Spring is in the air, and so are dust, pollen and other unwanted particles that can impact health and the dusting you need to do. What is the best way to Spring Clean Your Indoor Air?
- A major study published in Human Reproduction (January 2009), a European reproductive medicine journal, has found that pregnant women and women of child-bearing age in the United States are at greater risk than previously thought for infertility and reproductive problems as result of exposure to the toxic Teflon chemical PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid).
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