In Your Child’s Bedroom
Most children spend about fifty to sixty hours a week sleeping and even more time playing or hanging out in their bedrooms. One of the most important steps you can take to remove common asthma triggers is to target your child’s bedroom aggressively.
This doesn’t mean you must scrub everything twice a day; most of these changes are not difficult or time consuming. For example:
Cover pillows, mattresses, and box springs in plastic or dust-filtering covers; pillows should be made of washable, synthetic material, not feathers.
Use washable, synthetic blankets; avoid fuzzy cotton or wool blankets.
Dust Mite Allergy
Dust mites prefer warm, moist areas such as a mattress, pillow, and chairs to live in. In other words just about anyplace you like to spend time. Do you spend up to one third of your life in a bed? That is called New York City to a dust mite. Do you sit in a favorite chair when you watch
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