Reduce allergens in your home with these tips

Use the right bedding.
Credit: Metro Photo

Use the right bedding.
Credit: Metro Photo

Healthy Space Designer Robin Wilson know that spring cleaning sprucing up your space - and it can be healthier. President Robin Wilson Home and ambassador for the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America , which is a line of hypoallergenic bedding Bed, Bath & Beyond , offers these tips for spring cleaning for the next stage:

• Get rid of the vinyl shower curtain in the bathroom because it holds easier and mold gas. The use of a curtain instead of nylon. Use non-toxic cleaning products, and always low to ensure the toilet seat when flushing that the aerosol particles do not land on or near, towels, brushes, toothbrush and soap.
• For the sheets, pillows wash once a week, pillow protectors at least once a month and replace pillows every three years. Cover your mattress with a hypoallergenic cover, wash every two months and make sure it is not toxic, flame retardants, formaldehyde.
• Do not use VOC-Color: Early spring is the perfect time to paint a room. Use non-VOC paint in your house no gas, so that a smell of paint and hateful inflame asthma or allergies. You can not even make a difference how it looks on the wall.
• Apartments: get rid of carpets, wall to wall. And wood tiles are a much better option, but should be vacuumed or cleaned regularly to remove dust and dirt. Every spring, remove everything from the room, as if you were traveling, and a brush or steam clean the floor.
• Check in the form of a dishwasher, refrigerator enters the water tank and sink and bathtub drains. Change water dispenser and ice maker filter.
• Washing or freeze Puppets: washing or blocks stuffed animals your child to kill mites.
• Consider using cases in its upholstered sofa that can be washed regularly and have come a long way since covers 10 years. Be sure to limit the use of curtains, because they "dust catchers".

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