Ok, it is allergy season and you want to
sleep in a dust free, allergy
free bedroom to prevent sinus
flare-ups. What can you do to clean your bedroom? Where is
the best place to start? Give your sinuses a rest and do not
make them work so hard on your behalf.
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- Clear out your bedroom of all surplus objects.
Aim for that "Spartan" bare look.
- Eliminate all the dust with a good quality Hepa
Vacuum Cleaner. This means using special tools to get into
those hard to reach places such as tops of pictures, door headers,
corners, blinds, lampshades, underneath the bed or furniture.
Use the vacuum twice weekly. Do not use a cloth dusting rag, it
just redistributes the dust and aggravates your allergies.
- Take out as much carpeting and as many draperies
as you can possibly stand, they are a prime harbinger of dust
mites.
- Wash your bedclothes weekly in 140° degree
water (turn up your water heater setting) so it kills dust
mites.
- Use a fine filtration material at point of entry
to your bedroom for force air heating systems.
- Have your duct work professionally cleaned.
- Don't forget to change the filters for your portable
Air conditioner.
- Change the filters on your furnace once per month.
Use the pleated disposable kind or better
Electrostatic Furnace Filters.
- Close your closet door.
- Cover your bed with Dust
Mite Covers, and vacuum the bedding on a weekly basis.
- Use a Vapor
Steam Cleaner on your bedding to assist in killing dust mites
between washes.
- Use a high quality Hepa
Air Filter to filter out allergens. Find one that will do
the job at low frequency so that you do not have to live with
noise of a filter at high speed.
For a more extensive discussion of the "allergy
free bedroom" look out for the next issue of Allergy Consumer
Review.
First Published: December 1999
Updated: April 2007
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