Those people who are especially at risk include children, the elderly, pregnant women, and individuals whose health has already been compromised by illness, allergies, asthma, or other sensitivities. While healthier cleaning and personal care items can go along way toward making the air in any house better, there's more to be concerned about. Every thing, and every activity, within your home has the potential to enhance your well being, or detract from it-whether you know it or not. Consider your furniture and bedding, your hobbies, storage solutions, and pet care. If you don't know, you need to-because, everyday, all these things could be contaminating your home, your body, your family.
Potential symptoms range from sore throat to sinus irritation to cancer.
Unlike other books of its genre, Creating a Healthy Household goes far beyond cleaning, to cover virtually every aspect of home life. Its 704 pages are packed with hundreds of healthier alternatives for clothing, personal care, pest control, decorating, linens, even appliances and saunas. It explains what to look for when shopping for portable air and water filters, how to make sense of electromagnetic fields, and much more. Lynn Marie Bower has been hypersensitive for nearly two decades, so she is very aware of how common household products can affect a person's health. Writing about healthier life-styles since 1984, she is the author of two previous books, and for five years she edited a newsletter for chemically sensitive individuals.