You might be enjoying summer so good that you too forget that it could be a season of sickness especially of fever and allergy. When allergy strikes, your first move would be picking up the antihistamine. Effective? Yes but I guess that would compromise your day even leaving you so sleepy.
Dr. Neeta Ogden, an allergist based in New York, said that if allergies strike, one of the best things one could do is take medicine early even before the symptoms kick in. But then again, kicking in for medications could affect your daily routine.
The best you could do is to eventually get ready for the allergies especially to achieve a relaxing summer.
The dusts and the pesky pollen in the air could give you itchy-sniffy-sneezy moments especially this summer. Surely you would not want to ruin your day because of allergies, but preparing yourself for the irritants is the best thing you can do.
- Clean your washing machine
Detergent could not do better than the fungi and bacteria that could often grow into the dark and warm interior of your washing machine. Ogden advises everyone to wipe down the machine’s drum and particularly the door and the rubber gasket with diluted bleach or bleach wipes once a month. This stops the mold from growing. She also emphasize the important of removing the wet clothes from the machine and leaving the door open between loads so the drum and the door can dry.
- Don’t use your feather duster
If you have chronic allergies, using the feather duster is a bad idea. While we believe that it makes cleaning easier, it was found out to stir more dusts into the air than it traps. So instead of using the feather duster, it is more advisable to use a wet cloth because it picks up the dust.
- Use pillow covers
Always don’t take for granted the use of pillow covers. Dust mites are one of the most common causes of your allergies, and they could be found in your pillow. Allergenproof encasings for pillows are best to have. Or just change your covers from time to time.
- Clean everything in your home
Dusts and pollens would be just inside our home. Even how often we try to escape from the dusts of outside if we got some more inside, allergies could be almost inevitable. This is why cleaning everything inside your house is important.
You curtains, pillows, rugs among others could house thick dusts—so be sure you wash them even once a month. In washing these items, a research in South Korea pointed out that 140 degrees is the ideal temperature for washing because it kills dust mites and microscopic buggers.
You see, you don’t have to actually rush for a medicine if you can escape from it the first place. These simple reminders are proven effective if they are considered. Thank you so much for dropping by. Have a nice day ahead.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/