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Health Hazards in Hiding
10 Things You Can Do Today to Raise a Healthy Child
By Gina Roberts-Grey, LCSW
It's easy to remember to clean the obvious spots in your home. Dusting the tables and vacuuming the hallway are part of most household routines, but what about the top of doorframes, baseboards behind the bed, the top of the refrigerator and the blades of the ceiling fans?
When she rearranged the furniture in her son's room, Sally Williams, a mother of two from Crystal Lake, Ill., was horrified at what she found. "There were years' worth of dust, tiny lost toys and even a missing sock!" she says. Williams is one of the many who've learned that cleaning out clutter from under your beds, the back of your closets and away from the furnace reduces the dust and mites in your home and the risk of fire or excessive clutter.
"It's amazing how routinely cleaning the filters has helped with my daughter's allergies," says Michael McShane, a single father from Freeport, Ill. "Although these are chores we're not always fond of, performing them really does promote better health in your household,"
Additionally, you may think that since you clean clothes there, your laundry room is germ free, but think again! The laundry room is one of the places in the average home with one of the highest concentrations of bacteria and fecal matter due to the collection of underwear. Counter the germs when doing laundry and make underwear your last load. Don't put colored underwear with other colored items and use chlorine bleach to clean both the clothes and your washing machine.
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