5 Ways Spring Cleaning Strengthens Your Immune System

It is recommended to clean, or detox your body every spring and fall. This helps to get rid of the build-up and keep you healthy. Did you know, however, that doing this same kind of cleaning, or detoxing, in your home also helps strengthen your immune system? And, of course, a strong immune system contributes to being healthy. So, what are 5 ways spring cleaning strengthens your immune system?

Helps Avoid Allergy Symptoms

Dust, mold, mildew, pet dander, etc
- Common triggers for people who tend to react to allergies
- Pollutants collect over the winter months

Vacuum

Rugs, floors, ceiling cobwebs, and curtains
- Eliminates dust and keeps the air cleaner

Promotes A Healthy Respiratory System

A natural filtration system
- Removes toxic waste and gas
Transports vital oxygen to all of the cells in your body

Wash All Bedding and Blankets Including Mattresses

Over a year your mattress can collect as much as 20 lbs of dead skin cells, dust mites, dust mite feces, bacteria and fungal spores.

Kill dust mites(Dust mites can contribute to sneezing, runny nose, congestion and asthma)
- Put pillows in dryer on high heat for 10 minutes
- Sprinkle mattress with a mixture of baking soda and a non-toxic cleaner. Let sit for a few hours, vacuum and repeat on the other side

Take Off Shoes At The Door

Lessens the amount of "outdoor" pollutants ... pollen, dirt ... transferred throughout the home

Researchers have determined that women using (typical) cleaning products regularly had reduced lung function that was equivalent to lung function decline in someone who smoked 20 cigarettes a day!! Using a toxic cleaning product would be very contrary to the whole purpose of cleaning to help promote a healthy respiratory system. Can you imagine breathing that in all night as you try to sleep?!

Why not try this easy, economical and safe option:

Baking Soda: 1 1/2 Cups

Thieves Household Cleaner: 1/4 capful (only 3/4 tsp)

Mix together and allow to blend overnight. Sprinkle on mattress. After 2-3 hrs vacuum. Then repeat on other side.

If you appreciated this tip, you may appreciate this one about air quality.

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Reference

Svanes, Ø., Bertelsen, R. J., Lygre, S. H., Carsin, A. E., Antó, J. M., Forsberg, B., ... & Kogevinas, M. (2018). Cleaning at home and at work in relation to lung function decline and airway obstruction. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 197(9), 1157-1163.

People, including doctors, thought we were crazy...all in our heads.  After all, how could normal, every day household and personal product smells affect your ability to function, to cause you to be incoherent and feel shaky inside, to have an emotional break-down?  Inside we were dying.  Outside we appeared normal. 

Fragrances were, and are, part of every day, normal life.....candles, laundry, cleaning, perfumes.  Everyone and their neighbor used them.  For us, we either had to isolate ourselves or suffer the following day or two with a toxic hangover.  Isolation is never a good option, especially with children.  During the summer it was impossible to go outside without inhaling someone's laundry or the recent lawn product application.  My husband was so bad one summer that he could eat constantly and, yet, still lose weight.  Every month I would get a sinus infection and/or chest congestion. 

Then came the food sensitivities and autoimmune disorders.  How could food cause my ears to be red and hot, my cheeks to flush, and cause my entire body to break out multiple times in a horrendous, red, itchy, inflamed rash only to burn when scratched and ooze yellow, sticky fluid?  Imagine, every day having gauze pads over the majority of your body under your clothes and hoping the rash doesn't drain so much that it soaks through your clothes.  It would take months to disappear.  People said "just get a cortisone/steroid shot" for relief.  They could not understand why that was not my choice. 

By discovering and eliminating my many triggers, finding a new, non-toxic way to support my immune system, my liver, and my thyroid, I have not had a major skin breakout for about 3 yrs and have been able to manage my autoimmune disorders without the use of standard medication. 

I finally found a way to acquire "Freedom from Toxins", "Freedom to Achieve Wellness", and "Freedom to Choose". 

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