Explore everyday living through a Building Biology lens. Discover how our homes, building materials, furnishings, household products, technology and daily habits influence the indoor environment, with practical observations and choices that support healthier living.
Generally people spend more 90% of their time indoors, half of that in their homes. The air inside your home is two to five times more polluted than the air outdoors. Studies by the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) consistently rank indoor pollution among the top five environmental risks to public health. Polluted air costs the […]
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Did you know? The average person breathes 11,000 litres of air a day – that’s 7 to 8 litres every minute. No wonder it is so important that the air we breathe is clean! The Congressional Quarterly has claimed that indoor air is often 2-5 times more polluted than outdoor air and can be up
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Organic Produce and A Green Lifestyle It has been estimated that 40 per cent of the population in Australia suffer from allergic rhinitis (the medical term for hayfever and other similar symptoms). Here are a few more ways that you can contribute to a healthier home and planet. Organic produce is becoming increasingly popular as
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Dust Mites May Be Sharing Your Bed Talking about bedtime, have you thought about who is sharing your bed tonight? I hope it’s not our least favourite bed mate, the dust mite. Most of us know a little about them, maybe you’ve heard that they can cause allergies and asthma. Well, I’d like to tell
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An average queen-sized mattress hosts around 2 million dust mites, feeding on your flaked skin cells, excreting 20 to 30 faecal pellets, 15 microns in size, twice their body weight, every day. A 6 year old pillow can hold up to a tenth of it’s weight in dustmite bodies and faecal matter. Just consider, each
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In your home, the major reservoir of dust mite allergens is your mattress. See what a house dust mite looks like with our dust mites pictures. The depth and complex construction of the mattress means that no amount of vacuuming or dust mite killer sprays or powders will render it free from house dust mite
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Normal mattress cleaning removes only a small percentage of dustmite and their allergens. Normal vacuuming alone is not an effective means to mattress cleaning and dust mite control. The dust mites tend to cling to the fabric fibres, resisting being sucked up into your vacuum cleaner. Regular vacuuming of the infested dust mites mattress and
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Avoiding allergen triggers is one of the best ways to reduce your allergic symptoms. Avoidance is not always possible, but by finding out what you are reacting to, you’ll have more control over prevention. There are a range of tests that can be done to pinpoint your allergens. Rast allergy test is one method to
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How do you become allergic to dust mites? An allergy is an over reaction of your immune system to a normally harmless substance called an allergen. If you are allergic to dustmite, you are sensitive to a very common inhaled allergen trigger – house dustmite and its faeces. On your first exposure, the inhaled allergen
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Allergies occur in every one in five Australians. It results, in part, from the release of irritant chemicals, such as histamine, into the body’s tissues. The result is hay fever, asthma, food allergy or hives. What causes allergy symptoms? Underneath the lining of the skin, gut, lungs, nose and eyes are mast cells. These are
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