After doing free indoor air quality inspections on 100′s of homes for the last 10 years we have found that homes that irritate and trigger asthma, also seem to have an effect on sinus air passages.  For example,  a 3 year old has constant runny nose.  And when this mother says constant, most of her friends don’t really know that she means every day, or at least almost every day.  So what happens is the family kind of gets used to the problem and doesn’t stop to think that the runny noses really only occur at home.  When the family goes to Grandma’s house or on vacation the nose dries up.  Other similar symptoms are most of what we think of as “Cold” symptoms,   scratchy throat, horse speech, aches, pains, swelling around the eyes and even chest pains these seem to run in groups. What we are finding is that the simple tests in these homes often point to one of two things.  Either irritants that are by nature prickly or scratchy in microscopic sizes, or living organics such as molds and fungi.  Either way once we determine why the home is allowing this contaminated irritating condition, its not usually that hard to correct it.  And what a difference it can make in the comfort and well being of the entire family.  So try not to dismiss these signs that make your family miserable in their own home.

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