Have you ever considered that your home could be harming your health?
Your home should be a safe haven where you can relax at the end of the day, but sometimes, it’s the opposite. A lot of people don’t realize it but your home can be filled with all sorts of health hazards.
Even if you’re making an effort to create a safe and healthy environment, there are a lot of hidden dangers that you might have missed. These are some of the more common health hazards that you need to deal with in your home.
Mental Health
Before we look at physical health hazards, it’s important to note that your home can have a serious impact on your mental health and a lot of people don’t realize that. Your home should be a place where you can relax and relieve stress. But if it isn’t set up correctly, it has the opposite effect.
A home that is badly organized and cluttered can increase feelings of stress and anxiety. A home that isn’t clean and tidy can also increase negative emotions. That’s why it’s important that you pay close attention to the way that you organize your home and keep it in good condition.
Mold
If your home is damp and you’re getting mold on the walls, it makes the place look run down. But that’s the least of your worries. Black mold on the walls can cause some serious respiratory issues. And that is why you need to sort it out right away.
That doesn’t mean just cleaning it off the walls either because you’ll still have damp in the walls and it will just keep coming back again and again.
You need to call in proper mold removal services that can effectively clean away the mold and deal with the root cause of it properly. If you leave it and don’t do anything, you could seriously damage your health. So you need to get it sorted out right away.
Air Quality
Most people are aware that air pollution is a big problem when you’re walking around the streets of a busy city. But they don’t realize that the air pollution inside is often worse, and it’s bad in a lot of homes.
Air from outside gets in and stays there, dust and dirt from carpets adds to it, and cleaning chemicals release pollutants as well. That all mixes together to create some very polluted air inside the house. Over time, these things can harm your health.
There are a few simple things that you can do to improve the air quality in your home. First, you need to make sure that you’re cleaning carpets regularly so dust doesn’t settle in them.
You should also try to keep windows open when the weather is warm so the air circulates properly. If you’re using a lot of harsh cleaning chemicals, you should look for alternatives that use more natural ingredients.
You could even consider making your own cleaning products so you can be sure that you aren’t releasing harmful toxins into the home.
Most people aren’t aware of these dangers around the home that might be harming your health. But now you are aware, you can deal with them properly.
She has a B.S.Ed. in Secondary Education/English and a Spanish Minor. In addition, she holds a Certificates in Natural Health and Herbology from accredited programs. She pursued these natural wellness certifications due to her love for herb gardening.
Despite freelancing to make a living, her love is "all things home."
Deborah grew up in a family that grew a large vegetable garden and a fruit orchard, helping her parents pull weeds and can home-grown foods as part of her childhood. In fact, she had no idea that she could purchase veggies and fruits in pre-packed steel cans until she went to college and made a food run.
Today, she lives in Bertie County, North Carolina, an agricultural rural area with more chickens than people. She lives with her husband and two rescue pets a sweet toy fox terrier and a cat who showed up one day and moved into the house. Together, they enjoy DIY projects, furniture refinishing, gardening, and canning.
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