Contents:
- Medical Video: Controlling Asthma Triggers—Nemours: Keeping a Healthy Home
- 1. Mites
- 2. Pets
- 3. Cockroaches
- 4. Rat
- 5. Mushrooms
- 6. Cigarette smoke
- 7. Indoor pollutants
Medical Video: Controlling Asthma Triggers—Nemours: Keeping a Healthy Home
Asthma attackusually triggered by exposure to allergens or irritants in your own home. In a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, reducing the cause of asthma at home has been shown to accelerate recovery from an asthma attack. Not only that, this action can also reduce the number of days in which children must be absent from school and the number of hospital visits due to asthma.
So, independent actions to control the causes of asthma in your home are very important for family health.
To control asthma, the home environment must be really taken care of. Usually the causes of asthma at home include mites, pets, cockroaches, rodents (mice), dust, to cigarette smoke and indoor air pollutants.
Well, controlling asthma triggers at home can be done with various strategies. Starting from caring for the house to changing daily habits such as quitting smoking. Come on, see the seven most common causes of home asthma and how to control each of the following triggers.
1. Mites
Choose pillows, sheets, mattress covers, beds, and carpets that are anti-dust and anti-dust. Don't forget to wash all the bed sheets, pillow cases, bolsters and carpets with detergent and hot water (above 60 degrees Celsius).
Choose pillows, sheets, mattress covers, beds, and carpets that are anti-dust and anti-dust. Don't forget to wash all the bed sheets, pillow cases, bolsters and carpets with detergent and hot water (above 60 degrees Celsius). Make sure your house is not too damp. For example by using an air humidifying machine, accelerating air circulation, or installing air conditioning.
In the child's room, try to keep all the toys, especially the hairy dolls, always neat and diligently washed (once a week).
Clean the house with dust cleaners (vacuum cleaner) or routinely taped. If you are cleaning, use a mask while cleaning the house.
2. Pets
If you or your child is sensitive to fleas and mites from pets, you should avoid keeping animals at home. Or keep pets away from beds and rooms. Make sure the room door is always closed.
Also keep pets away from rugs or furniture covered in cloth or fur.
3. Cockroaches
Cover all sources of water and food at home, clean the surface of the table and floor, close the trash can, and close all holes in the house that lead to the cockroach nest.
You are advised to use cockroach poisons or anti-gel gels instead of spray drugs. If you really have to use a spray to kill cockroaches, make sure you or your child with asthma are not at home until the smell of the spray is gone. Air circulation must also be sufficiently smooth so that the insects are not trapped indoors and trigger asthma.
4. Rat
Mice and other rodents (such as weasels) can carry allergens that cause asthma at home. So, keep all food and drinks in a tightly closed container, clean all corners of the house, and close the hole that mice can access.
You can use mouse traps or rat poisons to expel rodents from the house.
5. Mushrooms
People who are sensitive to fungi at home must make sure all the items in the house are always dry, not damp. Because the fungus is easy to grow in moist environments. You should regularly check and clean the bathroom, pipes, water taps, buckets, clothes cabinets, and piles of bags that are susceptible to mold.
6. Cigarette smoke
Quitting smoking is the best solution to prevent asthma attacks. If parents of children with asthma or other family members are still in the transition stage of quitting smoking, stress that they should not smoke at home.
7. Indoor pollutants
Avoid using room deodorizers, powder, perfume, hair spray, stinging paint, or building materials that have lots of powder and dust.
Choose home cleaning products and fragrance-free clothes and perfumes.
Indeed there are many causes of asthma at home. Therefore, you must be careful and disciplined to maintain cleanliness at home and overcome the triggers mentioned above. Because, research shows that overcoming one trigger is less effective in preventing an asthma attack.
