Toxins:
Did you know your home can actually be a source of ill health.
The awareness of the dangers in the home environment has been a recent discovery. Some of the terms that have appeared in recent literature are "household toxins" and "indoor air pollution."
Over the past few years the medical and scientific communities have started recognizing that common household chemicals and environment outgasing from new carpets and furnishings including the concern for air quality can have an adverse effect on our health.
This is why it is not recommended to redecorate a baby's room for their arrival especially with new carpet and paint.
When we learn how these toxins affect us especially our children we are sure you will want to change the way you live.
Like most people, we assumed that if a product is on the shelf at our local market, it must have passed reasonable safety standards and be safe. Of course there is always the products marked as poison or caustic with the skull and crossbones emblem on the label and we know to keep these products out of reach of children.
But did you know that there is actually an alternative to having these products in your home. You will find information on how to change your home environment throughout this section of our site.
Most people are unaware, I know I was, that regular consumer products that we all use every day have toxins and chemicals that can be extremely harmful to children and our family.
Many of these ingredients would require special handling if used in industry; a chemical laboratory; or in the workplace. The fact is that there are strict rules and regulations required to protect workers who may use these same substances in the industrial environment where they are required to use protective equipment clothing or gloves and masks when using some of the very same products found in every home.
When we use these same substances at home we do so with no protection at all and no knowledge of the danger and with no consideration for ventilation or protective equipment.
Many of the household chemicals that can cause
serious reactions are listed in toxicology books as having known toxic effects.
Is your home environment or products slowly poisoning your family in their
own home causing energy depletion, allergies and other chronic conditions.
Some people are also more sensitive than others and their problems can become
serious illnesses. Unfortunately many of these reactions take years of repeated
exposure to manifest themselves and are sometimes wrongly diagnosed as part
of the aging process; considered incurable or even thought of as all in our
head
While certain people may be more
sensitive than others, and some chemicals
may bring on reactions only after many
years of repeated exposure or only in a small percentage of the population,
chemicals in the home can put everyone at risk especially our children. Children
are also more vulnerable to this threat in our time because they sometimes
lead sedentary lifestyles spending a lot more time indoors playing video games
and watching TV.
Toxins deplete our bodies immune system by continually
creating a stressful environment in our bodies which can contribute to illness
and fatigue.
Many symptom that some people have that others assume are imagined, both physical
and psychological, have been associated with certain environments including
our homes.
Of course at greatest risk are children, the elderly, and those who are already
ill.
Ironically these same people spend most of their time at home
Indoor Air
Quality:
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A secondary issue that we mentioned
at the beginng was poor air quality
or "indoor air polution".
The quality of our indoor air has been affected by
the need for energy conservation and air tight houses.
With winter heating and summer
airconditioning we almost never totally air out the
house. This means the air circulating in your
home is extemely stale and probably toxic or polluted.
This can be corrected with a dual system
from"Pure Air Plus"
that can be installed
on forced air systems to exchange
your indoor air up to 8 times
in a 24 hour period.
Those who have had the system installed and where suffering
from asthma and those with smokers in the home
have noticed the most significant difference
with symtoms being reduced by
50% or more.
Just think how differint your environment can become
if you use non toxic products and introduce fresh
air into your home, the
results are nothing short of remarkable
The more you replace
toxic substances with nontoxic
alternatives, the better you and your family will feel.
As an informed consumer in today's
marketplace you
will not be contributing to putting harmful substances
into the environment, instead you will be preserving the earth for future
generations namely our children to enjoy.
Try our wonderful and affordable non toxic biodegradable
products that are not only safe for
you and your family but good for the environment as
well.
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How do Toxins Enter our Body
There are basically three ways that toxins can
enter the body:
by swallowing, by breathing, or by contact
with
the skin or eyes. When most people hear about
a chemical poisoning, they usually think about
swallowing (ingestion). Every year, five
to ten million household poisonings are
reported, the immediate
result of accidental ingestion of common
cleaning, pesticide, personal
care and other common household products.
Many of these poisonings are fatal, and most
of the victims are children
The personal care products
we put on our skin and hair create possible
toxic exposures through skin absorption.
These include but are
not limited to soaps,
lotions, creams, cosmetics,
shampoo's, deodorants, and other common products.
In 1989 a US. House subcommittee
asked the National Institute of
Occupational Health
and Safety to analyzes 2,983 chemicals
used in personal care products; 884 were found
to
be toxic!
Of these;
- 778 can
cause acute toxicity
- 146 can cause tumors
- 218 can cause reproductive complications
- 314 can cause
biological mutation
- 376 can cause
skin and eye irritations
Personal care products
should promote
hygiene, health and beauty
...not make us sick.
Of course, we don't mean to suggest that everyone
will experience health problems the first
time they use a product containing toxic
ingredients, although many
people do.
In actuality, most poisonings happen slowly,
over a long period of time through
- gradual skin absorption
- or
by daily exposure in the air we breathe.
Today many people are aware of the fact that indoor
air quality can include toxins but are sometimes surprised to learn that indoor
air can be much
worse to breathe than outdoor air.
In fact, in the US reports to Congress on Indoor Air and the subcommittee
hearings on the Indoor Air Quality Act of 1989
stated that indoor air pollution is one of the nation's most
important environmental health problems. According to the EPA, most
homes have airborne concentrations and hazardous
chemicals that are two to five times higher indoors than outdoors. In one
five year study, the EPA reported that a number of homes had chemical
levels that were seventy times higher inside than outside.
Some of the information shown here was taken form "Lets
stop poisoning our children"
and "Please Protect Your Self from
Household Toxins" written by Debra Lynn Dadd and
Richard M. Barry
You can purchase their pamphlets by calling toll free 1-888-209-0510
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