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Asthma & Allergies
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- When outfitting or decorating your home, there are sensitive choices you can make if you have asthma.
- Outgassing refers to the release of gases during the aging and degradation of a material. These volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can negatively affect our health.
- What can be done to make our homes and buildings more healthful?
- How to get those bothersome "new clothing" odors and chemicals out of your clothes.
- While many people enjoy wearing perfumes and using scented products, there is a growing outcry from some people who claim exposure to certain fragrances, including perfumes and scented products, adversely impacts their health.
- Researchers exploring the relationship between asthma and exposure to consumer products and product ingredients say the database of current studies is not sufficiently robust to demonstrate a causal relationship between product exposures and new-onset asthma. But some evidence does exist that suggests some exposures could trigger asthma-like symptoms in individuals with pre-existing asthma and/or bronchial hypersensitivity.
- National Center for Healthy Housing releases information from asthma study.
- Ingredients in common household cleaning products may be harmful to our health.
- Using household cleaning sprays and air fresheners as little as once a week can raise the risk of developing asthma in adults, say researchers in Europe.
- 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?
- Dr. Stephen Pretlove, from Kingston University’s (UK) School of Architecture, is one of a group of specialists advising people to leave their beds unmade to banish house dust mites which cause asthma and other allergies.
- 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).
- If you want to use safer, less-toxic pest-control alternatives, there are quite a few available.
- What is known about tight construction, why it is a good idea, and how it is integral to systematic house design and construction.
- Help for cleaning green from Sierra Club Green Home.
- A University of Washington study of top-selling laundry products and air fresheners found the products emitted dozens of different chemicals. All six products tested gave off at least one chemical regulated as toxic or hazardous under federal laws, but none of those chemicals was listed on the product labels.
- Removing particles and gases using air cleaners.
- Vinyl flooring can certainly outgas (emit) potentially bothersome chemical odors and VOCs, but it also offers a relatively impenetrable, smooth surface—one that’s water-resistant, unable to harbor dust mites, pollen grains, and mold spores, and one that’s easy to sweep and wash clean.
- Questions and answers from Dr. Thad Godish, Ph.D.
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