Healthy Home Resources
Keeping your home healthy starts by adding layers of protection. Regular cleaning to remove allergens and opting for non-toxic cleaning products can help reduce asthma and allergy symptoms. Safe storage of food, safety measures like detectors and childproofing, and practicing healthy habits like handwashing can help prevent illnesses and injuries.
Extra layers of protection!
If we could, we’d wrap our kids in big protective bubbles free of germs, bugs and dangerous chemicals. But we can’t. Fortunately, there are ways to protect them from things seen and unseen, and find peace of mind for you knowing your home is a healthy place to be.
Tips and information for a healthy home environment
- 36 expert tips for a healthy home | Homes for Health
- 8 elements of a green and healthy home | Green and Healthy Homes
- Asbestos: keeping kids safe from health exposure | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Cleaners, sanitizers and disinfectants | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Make your home a healthy home | Environmental Protection Agency
- Fire safety | Cook Children’s
- A clean, safe healthy kitchen and home: the importance of keeping your kitchen clean | HGIC Clemson University
- Hamsters and mice can cause illness | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Infections that pets can spread | Cook Children’s
- What attracts mice to homes? | Stay safe
- The dangers of secondhand smoke | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Tips to keep a smoke-free home and car | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Why are smoke-free environments a big deal? | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Blood lead levels in children: what parents need to know | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Blood lead levels in pregnant and breastfeeding moms | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Lead exposure: steps to protect your family | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Pediatric environmental health specialty units | Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSUs)
- Preventing lead exposure| Centers for Disease Control And Prevention
- Prevention of childhood lead toxicity | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Should my child be retested for lead exposure? | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Where We Stand: Lead Screening | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Cleaners, sanitizers and disinfectants | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Fighting germs | Cook Children’s
- Germ prevention | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Germs: bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa | Cook Children’s
- Handwashing: why is it so important? | Cook Children’s
- Infections pets can spread | Cook Children’s
- Laundering your baby’s cloths | Cook Children’s
- 9 asthma triggers and what to do about them | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Aap clears the air on role of indoor environmental exposure in childhood asthma | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Allergies center | Cook Children’s
- Asthma action plan | Cook Children’s
- Asthma center | Cook Children’s
- Asthma flare-ups | Cook Children’s
- Asthma prevention at home | Cook Children’s Center for Community Health
- Asthma triggers | Cook Children’s
- Cats and asthma | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Clear the Air | Cook Children’s
- Dust mites | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Hay fever triggers outdoors and indoors | American Academy of Pediatrics
- Healthy homes asthma program | Cook Children’s Center for Community Health
- How to handle asthma flare-ups | Cook Children’s
- It's allergy season. What's a parent to do? | Cook Children’s
- When pets are the problem | American Academy of Pediatrics
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