Dealing with their child's respiratory allergies has become one of the biggest child rearing issues for many parents. There are studies that have shown that a majority of children have allergies in some form. Because the symptoms of allergies vary, it can be difficult to know if your child has allergies or something more serious like asthma. Before treatment, you should have your doctor determine the correct diagnosis. If your child has allergies, you might see any combination of these symptoms:

* Sneezing, itchy nose

* Congestion and stopped up nose

* Running nose and watering eyes

* Frequent cough or throat clearing from post-nasal drip

* Frequent ear infections

If you want to help your child's respiratory allergy symptoms, removing as much dust and pollen from the home should be your first priority. This can make a huge difference in both the severity and the frequency of your child's allergy attacks. You can see dust in the air in your home, and you most likely clean it off of furniture tops. But dust also settles into upholstered furniture, carpeting and bedding, creating problems for your child. Your body also sheds dead skin cells which accumulate with the dust.

Dust mites are tiny insects that live in your home and feed on these dead skin cells, and are the source of many allergy problems. You can greatly reduce this allergy source by using anti-allergy pillow and mattress covers on your bed. Vacuum carpets daily (or replace them with wood or tile), and use a vacuum cleaner that has a HEPA filter to make sure you remove as much dust as possible.

Children with allergies are also often affected by mold growing in the home. This can be a big problem in older houses and in high humidity areas. A dehumidifier will work to remove the excess humidity from your home, and reduce the growth of mold. You may find it works best to place a dehumidifier in each of the large rooms of your home, making sure that the dehumidifier is of the right size for the room.

If your home has an air conditioning unit, it can be a source of allergens if the filter isn't clean enough to do its job. Check your manufacturer's recommendations, and clean or change the filter as needed to prevent dust and pollen from being recirculated through your home. If you can, look to see if there is a HEPA replacement filter made for your model, and you can remove even microscopic particles from the air.

If you want your home as clean as possible for your child, you need have the right vacuum cleaner. A HEPA filter is necessaryfor removing dust and pollen. And since you'll need to do a lot of vacuuming, you'll want a machine that's light and easy to maneuver. This Dyson DC25 review explainss how the Dyson DC25 helps keep dust and pollen to a minimum in your home, and makes housekeeping in general easier for you.

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Clean bathroom fixtures and a tidy kitchen are not the only way to gauge a home's health index. As a teen I spent a great deal of time around a friend's home that onlookers would have sworn had a revolving front door. Set in a college town, that little house thrummed with the activity of older siblings coming and going, career parents on the run and a bevy of student boarders from all over the world calling it home. There was rarely a bare square inch of counter space in the kitchen for all the dishes that constantly needed washing, the laundry machines were never still and there was the subtle but continuous jockeying for an available bathroom.

They had a professional cleaning lady of sorts who gave the place little more than a lick and a promise once a week. You could not tell much more than six hours later if she had been there or not. The amazing thing I now recall from the years that I observed and participated in that milling microcosm, is that there was never a sick person among us, never more than a mild dose of the sniffles. Above the nearly always full kitchen sink, there hung a framed motto: "Our home is clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy."

Scientists are now offering a good deal of support to this healthy home philosophy, giving academic credibility to the thinking that generations of homemakers have intuitively relied on to save their sanity. According to the "hygiene hypothesis", a certain skimming of bacteria and viruses in our everyday environments can be very beneficial, in fact even necessary in order to not compromise our immune systems. Ironically, this pro-germ thinking is coming to the forefront just when body soaps, laundry detergents and household cleansers infused with antibacterial chemicals have conquered supermarket shelves and invaded household cabinets. Latex gloves and protective masks are not that difficult to find in many homes either. Of course, it is precisely this hyperconscious cleanliness that helped precipitate the hypothesis.

The hygiene hypothesis contends that if during early childhood, an environment does not provide exposure to particular infectious microorganisms, an individual's immune system will be deprived of a valuable education. The expansive term "bacterial lipopolysaccharides", refers to a bacterial module that acts as the immune system's educator, stimulating certain immune system cells into protective action. Simplistically put, the hygiene hypothesis suggests that our increasing fixation with antibacterial sprays, wipes and soaps is removing too many of these important bacterial modules that need to be present to trigger the child's antibodies into developing.

Even as the national angst about stocking up on latex gloves and protective masks builds in anticipation of H1N1 and other maladies, there is a slowly growing movement of mothers across the country who are consciously encouraging their kids to play in what they call 'healthy dirt'. They then refuse to use antibacterial soaps when cleaning the children up afterwards. They recognize that regular soap and a good scrubbing is still a reliable way reduce bacteria counts to healthily manageable amounts that allow most people's immune systems to function optimally.

Ironically, locating a soap in the grocery or drug store that does not have an antibacterial label is not such an easy task anymore, but it is very likely worth the search. The axiom "clean enough to be healthy, dirty enough to be happy" is something we should keep in mind the next time we ponder which cleansing products to buy.

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