{"id":468,"date":"2007-04-13T01:38:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T01:38:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-05-15T12:35:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:35:41","slug":"dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/asthma\/dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Air-Borne Allergies: Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"dust-X-12k\" <\/p>\n

household dust x12,000<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Dusting the house<\/a> always seemed like something you had to do, because if you didn’t your house was dirty. That was about it. If you are busy and don’t care about a “dirty” house, you can let the dusting slide, right? After all, dust<\/a> just consists of tiny particles, how can something so small be bad? I have better things to do!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, there are solid health-based reasons for dusting, as any asthmatic<\/a> will tell you. Can you therefore ignore the dusting if you aren’t asthmatic, and not about to become one any time soon?<\/p>\n

Dust is bad for everyone. If you have allergies<\/a>, then it is very definitely bad for you.<\/p>\n

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\"200px-House <\/p>\n

dust mite<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Until I underwent allergy testing<\/a> years ago, and reacted to the dust serum, I didn’t take dusting too seriously. Since then though, I have noticed two things:<\/p>\n

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  1. If I keep my living quarters dust-free, I feel much better.<\/li>\n
  2. If I am exposed to a lot of dust all at once, I feel much worse.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I have also noticed that if I get lazy about the dusting, I slowly feel worse and worse, its just that I don’t notice the gradual deterioration. Then, when I do the dusting, I feel really bad from stirring up the dust.<\/p>\n

    A few hours after doing the dusting, I feel better again.<\/p>\n

    Yes, doing the dusting is worth the effort.<\/p>\n

    Controlling Dust<\/h1>\n

    There is more to controlling dust<\/a> than using a vacuum cleaner. In fact, a vacuum cleaner could be your worst enemy.<\/p>\n

    Take your average vacuum cleaner. It sucks up everything in site, traps the larger particles in a bag, and sends the much finer, much more harmful particles straight out the exhaust. No wonder people hate vacuuming: it is noisy, and doesn’t do all that much good. And there is a good chance that you are allergic to dust, so you will feel much worse after doing the dusting than before.<\/p>\n

    Here are some quick hints to help reduce the dust in your home:<\/p>\n

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    1. Get a vacuum cleaner<\/a> with a built-in HEPA filter<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    2. Get a HEPA filter installed in your furnace<\/a><\/li>\n
    3. Get lots of ventilation in your home. Even if it is very cold or very hot outside, open all the windows for a few minutes to get an exchange of air and let the dust particles go flying out.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Suggestions 1 and 2 are expensive. I’ll be discussing some cheaper options in other sections of this website.<\/p>\n


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      Air Quality Improvement Products<\/H2>
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      Directory of Air Quality Improvement Products<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Keeping household dust under control seems like a boring topic, until you realize that dust can make you rather ill. Some people may feel slightly tired due to household dust, but never make the connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}