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Tips for Avoiding the Fall Allergy Woes

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CLEVELAND — Oct. 26, 2009 — The air is crisp, the days are shorter and beautiful leaves of red, yellow and orange cover the trees and the sidewalks. What’s not to love about fall? Fall allergies and their attendant miseries, that’s what.

While non-allergy sufferers assume that springtime is the worst season for allergies, late summer and autumn are actually more problematic as far as symptoms go, especially for those allergic to ragweed and mold. Ragweed pollen and mold are often heavily accumulated in damp leaf cover. When those beautiful fall leaves are disturbed, sinus headaches, nasal congestion, asthma and itchy eyes are the result.

Check out these four simple preventive tips from www.cleanhomeideas.com that can help to keep fall allergy symptoms at bay:

Avoid fall lawn work if at all possible, especially during the early morning hours when pollen counts are high. Raking leaves in particular can disturb ragweed pollen and mold that can aggravate allergies. If you do spend any length of time outdoors, remove and launder your clothes as soon as you get in the house, and shower before going to bed. This will prevent pollen and irritants from disseminating throughout your home.

Consider investing in a central vacuum system to more effectively remove the allergic particles that enter your home. Allergy sufferers often bemoan the fact that traditional vacuum cleaners — even those equipped with good filters — tend to suck up only a portion of contaminants and then disburse the remaining particles into the indoor air, further aggravating symptoms.

A central vacuum system operates by attaching a lightweight hose to special outlets in your walls, and through a series of interconnected tubes it carries dirt, particles, and even fine grains of pollen away from your living quarters and into a sealed container located in the garage, basement or storage closet. Installation usually takes just one day, so the benefits can be appreciated almost immediately.

Keep windows closed and use central air conditioning if you have it. This should limit the amount of contaminants that make it into your living quarters.

Don’t hang laundry on an outdoor clothesline. Pollen will attach itself to the damp fabric, garnering it a free ride into your home.