SOME GOOD ADVICES TO CONTROL YOUR CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY
If you go to the hairdresser or barber, make an appointment to go when the place is not busy – first thing on Monday or Tuesday is a good time to go.
Avoid using gas and paraffin ovens and fires if you possibly can. If you are very sensitive to fumes, replace them with other forms of cooking and heating (gas central heating and Agas are usually less
Some plants actually absorb formaldehyde from the atmosphere. They have been used by NASA on spacecraft, and are often recommended for use in office buildings where there have been persistent health problems. Try keeping any of these in your home, workplace or school to reduce formaldehyde levels.
Chrysthanthemum Spathiphylum
Coconut palm Spider plant
Dracaena Weeping fig
Gerbera
If you have any plastic items which bother you with persistent fumes, covering them with a cloth when not in use helps keep down fumes to manageable levels.
Wash new plastic items in a solution of 1 dessertspoonful Borax in a bowl of warm water. This helps neutralise fumes.
Changing wind direction may affect you if you are sensitive to pollution. Your symptoms may improve on certain days if the wind veers and carries pollution away.
Fumes from a built-in garage can seep into a house. Try and avoid a house with an integrated garage. If in flats with a basement garage, live as high above it as you can.
If you are extremely sensitive, it can help to change your clothes and wash your hair or shower after contact with fumes – say, after coming in from work, after an evening out, or after travelling. Hang clothes to air in a spare room or shed.
Using an air filter can help cope with chemical fumes.
Wearing a face mask and covering your hands can help protect you when you have to use chemicals, or are exposed to fumes that upset you.
A dose of alkali salts can help relieve, or even stop, a severe reaction to chemicals. A simple version of this is to take 1 teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate in a glass of water. Do not take this more than three times a day for adults, a Rather than buying a product before patch-testing, ask the shop assistant to apply a sample for you from a product or apply a patch from samples on display.
You can also write to manufacturers or suppliers to ask for samples to test.
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