The presence of various allergens in the houses contributes to trigger the crises of asthma at the people who have some allergies. The results of an investigation américaine1 confirm it and underline the importance to regularly clean the house when a person suffers from asthma caused by allergies.
Of the researchers of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences2 published the results of an investigation led in 831 American homes representative of the set of the residential dwellings of this country. They first analyzed samples of domestic dust in various order to detect allergens as those that come from the dogs or cats, of the mice, the cockroaches, mites the mushrooms or the type of Alternaria.
The researchers retraced these six types of allergens in more of the half of the homes analyzed. In close to 46% of the cases, at least three of these substances reached rates of excessive qualified. besides, the presence of strong domestic allergen rates was associated to a frequency of asthma increased crises at the allergic people, they return.
The exhibition to the domestic allergens constitutes an important factor of risk for the people who suffer from asthma caused by allergies since they pass, every day, a lot of time in the house, underline the group of researchers.
The regular cleaning of the house to the vacuum cleaner is a simple and efficient means to minimize the quantity of allergens, affirm the authors of the survey who underline the importance for the asthmatics to reduce the exhibition to the allergens. "Although he / it is completely impossible of the eradication of our houses, he / it imports to take special measures and to clean more often when one suffers from asthma or that someone is reached of it in the family," they explain.
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