MULTIPLE SENSITIVITY: REDUCING YOUR LOAD
Reducing your load of common allergens, taking certain precautions with general diet, and limiting your exposure to chemicals can help generally in managing multiple sensitivity, and in preventing further allergies developing if you or your family have the tendency.
House dust mites and moulds both thrive in damp, poorly aired environments. Keep your surroundings as dry, warm, and aired as you are able to help keep them at bay. Ventilate properly and, in particular, keep beds and bedding (which harbour mites and moulds) aired and dry. Dry laundry (and anything else damp) outside the home and avoid creating damp and steam where possible. Gas and paraffin fires, heaters and cookers create damp when burning and it is best either to avoid their use altogether, or to take extra care in ventilating and removing condensation if you do use them.
To remove allergens, and to avoid dispersing them when cleaning, use filters on a vacuum cleaner or a special vacuum cleaner. This helps enormously to protect against all kinds of allergen which are usually blown back into a room by the exhaust. Over time, vacuuming with filters helps to remove allergens already lodged in furniture, flooring and furnishings. Also ‘damp dust’ – do the dusting with a cloth that is slightly damp, so that dust and allergens do not disperse into the air.
Avoid keeping pets and animals if you can. If you do have pets, make sure that they sleep outside the home, if possible. Above all, do not let them sleep on beds or in bedrooms (even during the day).
If you are allergic to pollen or mould spores, take care about going out at seasons when they are present at a high level in the air. Keep windows and doors closed as much as you can during peak periods.
To help prevent food sensitivity, vary your diet and limit the frequency at which you eat the most allergenic repeatedly each day; keep the whole diet full of choice and variety. Eat fresh and wholesome food and keep your use of processed food to a minimum. Sort out your diet properly if you need to, and avoid any foods that clearly upset you – even if you love and crave them. Variety plus avoidance of troublemakers will do more than anything to reduce your tendency to react generally.
Keep your use of any chemicals to the absolute minimum. Think before you use anything on yourself, your home, or at work or school. Do you really need it or is there a less aggressive alternative? Stop smoking and avoid smoky atmospheres. Take care with perfumed products of any kind. Air and wash anything new, and avoid situations or places where chemical fumes are high.
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