Effective Asthma Prevention Tips - Household Plants That Will Clean the Air in Your Home

If you or anyone in your family is an asthma sufferer, then you will surely be interested in any effective asthma prevention methods and techniques that will help to reduce contact with the things that cause asthma attacks. Read on and you may be surprised and probably pleased to learn, that effective asthma prevention could be simply a matter of choosing the right indoor plants!

Most of the things that trigger asthma attacks are transported in the air so that they are easily breathed in. You can effectively seal off your home to prevent the ingress of all those airborne "nasties" which trigger the asthma but what about the air that you breathe, inside your home?

Did you know that the air in your home is one of the top five environmental health risks, according to the U.S. Environmental Agency? This has to be of considerable concern to everyone but particularly so for asthma sufferers and those who are allergic to chemical products. But why is this so?

Research has shown that many common products such as paint, adhesives, dry-cleaning, de-odourants, anti-perspirants and even new pieces of furniture, all give off chemicals (known as volatile organic compounds or VOC's) that pollute the air that we are constantly breathing in. These chemicals are potent triggers for asthma attacks and chemically triggered allergies.

So apart from permanently using some form of breathing apparatus, what can be done to lessen the problem?

Well you may be surprised to know that the answer is rather straightforward and one that might only require a simple adjustment to your home. What you need to do is choose to include some household plants in your home. As well as decorating your living space, these plants will help to control the environment in your home, providing some welcome relief from your asthma.

Surely it cannot be that simple? Well apparently yes.

Research, at the University of Georgia, has demonstrated that a certain number of plants, commonly found indoors, can effectively remove a large proportion of these chemicals and consequently produce a much healthier environment in the home.

Not all plants offer the same level of chemical removal, however, and of those tested (around 30 common household plants), five stood out for their effectiveness. The five are:

- Purple Waffle Plant
- English Ivy
- Purple Heart Plant
- Asparagus Fern
- Variegated Wax Plant

It has to be stated that this information has come from a preliminary study which is continuing, but these early indications are very promising. It would mean that effective asthma prevention could be as simple as choosing the right indoor plants.

But why wait for the investigation to reach its conclusion? Where is the harm in simply decorating your home with these plants? What do you have to lose - apart from your asthma?

This is yet another way in which Mother Nature has provided an effective way to treat or remedy one of the distressing ailments that afflict millions of people.

Fortunately, the world is becoming increasingly aware that totally natural based products and treatments provide equally effective results as the more familiar, drug based medications. Moreover, they do not produce the adverse and sometimes dangerous side effects, caused by these drugs, which are reported on an almost daily basis.

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