{"id":5857,"date":"2011-09-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5857"},"modified":"2011-09-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T00:00:00","slug":"toxic-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/toxic-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Dust Is Toxic Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often go <a href='http:\/\/www.thesoftlanding.com\/' target='_blank'>TheSoftLanding.com<\/a> to research safe, non-toxic products for my children. Especially when it comes to plastic items, navigating what&#39;s safe and what could contain hormone-disrupting or neurotoxic chemicals is particularly difficult; it helps to have a guide for helping me choose safe products. In fact, I&#39;d say what AchooAllergy.com is as an allergy resource, the Soft Landing is for non-toxic children&#39;s products. <\/p>\n<p>As you can easily imagine, both an allergy friendly home and a non-toxic home involve maintaining a home environment that&#39;s healthy and green. Often, concerns regarding these two arenas overlap, as when we discussed vinyl in <a href='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/wp\/allergens-shower-curtains\/'>Hidden Allergens: Shower Curtains<\/a>, a topic which The Soft Landing also highlighted when it linked to Center for Health, Environment, and Justice article <a href='http:\/\/chej.org\/2011\/09\/eww-what%E2%80%99s-that-stench-volatile-vinyl\/' target='_blank'>Eww. What&#39;s that Stench? Volatile Vinyl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A recent Soft Landing blog entry, <a href='http:\/\/guide.thesoftlanding.com\/2011\/09\/19\/top-10-ways-to-bust-toxic-dust-bunnies\/' target='_blank'>Top Ten Ways to Bust Toxic Dust Bunnies<\/a>, points out that in addition to triggering allergies, dust is one of the &#8216;most significant sources of childhood exposure to toxic substances.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Children are especially susceptible to the toxicity dangers of dust because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They are still developing.<\/li>\n<li>They breathe in more air than adults and also mouth-breathe more often.<\/li>\n<li>They have a higher heart rate and thus absorb chemicals into their tissues faster.<\/li>\n<li>They have a greater surface area, so dermal absorption is greater.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>_The Soft Landing lists the following recommendations <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often go TheSoftLanding.com to research safe, non-toxic products for my children. Especially when it comes to plastic items, navigating what&#39;s safe and what could contain hormone-disrupting or neurotoxic chemicals is particularly difficult; it helps to have a guide for&hellip; <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188],"tags":[37,82,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}