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Allergies at An All-Time High

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With allergies being at an all-time high the need for high quality products promoting the elimination of dust, mite, mold, mildew, fungus and pet dander is an essential step in keeping allergies under control.

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The materials most likely causing the distress are the pillows and mattresses saturated with dust mites and other allergens after an exposure during time spent in bed. Often a runny nose, watery eyes or asthma like symptoms in the morning, are the results of a night long exposure of inhaling these particles.

Many of the pillows and mattresses in homes have been in use for periods of more than three years without proper cleaning and sanitation practices to eliminate harmful bacteria. The alternative to buying new expensive pillows and mattresses is proper care and protection. Read more…

Mold and Penicillin

Moldy Bread

We have not always relied on the latest and the newest medicines as remedies for different health issues. At one time we used what was available even if it was something as primitive or disgusting as a piece of moldy bread, urine or honey.

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Egyptians used honey for wound dressing and ancient Indian healers reportedly used urine as treatments with great success.

As mold is the father of modern antibiotics, we will explore the example of moldy bread and its anti-bacterial properties in general. One of the earliest examples of natural antibiotics was in ancient Serbia, where old bread was pressed upon wounds to help to prevent infection. This form of treatment actually contained an early raw form of penicillin. Mold use was also practiced in China and Greece with similar results.

With the mass production of bio-chemical antibiotics that followed, the quantities were large enough that animals could be used in experimenting with antibiotics and this later lead to the large scale manufacturing in the early 1940’s.

Over time some strains of bacteria began to adapt and became resistant to antibiotics. Today not all antibiotics work for all bacteria due to the acquired resistance.

Some of the reasons are inappropriate antibiotic use for viral infections, such as the common cold and the use of antibiotics as growth promoter in agriculture given to livestock in the absence of disease.

Practices, such as antibiotics, are effective in killing germs and disease causing bacteria, they are also effective in killing our beneficial bacteria.

Is your Bed Making you Sick?

Is your bed making you sick

Many allergy sufferers are not aware that one of the most overlooked reason is the way they sleep – the environment of their sleeping quarters. Sometimes it can be narrowed down to the materials such as goose down or feather pillows, other times it may be a form of bacteria that inhabits the pillows or mattress they are sleeping on.

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There are many reasons for taking a good look at your bedding and the first thing any allergy sufferer to dust, mites, mold, mildew, fungus or other pollutants is to eliminate this one source.

If your pet is sleeping with you, if you have a damp area in your living quarters, if you have or ever seen any mold or mildew in the bathroom, or if are exposed to any type of allergy causing materials, the first step is to create a healthy sleeping space since we are spending more than one third of our lives in bed.

The easiest way is to purchase dust, mite and allergy control pillow and mattress covers. These products need to be able to fully enclose the pillows and mattresses with a zipper and to be made of waterproof material, suitable for hot water wash and dry. In this way one can be assured that your bedding is not saturated by dust, mites, mold, fungus, pet dander, bacteria or any other allergy causing agents.