Indoor Allergies Overview

Most people with asthma or hay fever or other allergies, think outside your home as a refuge where they can escape their allergies. Unfortunately, houses and buildings in the port of its own allergens (agents that cause allergy symptoms). The interior of your home made traps allergens, making it impossible to avoid.

While many of the allergens in the environment can cause allergy, house dust is the main cause of indoor allergies. What is house dust?

It depends on the type and age of your home, the temperature and humidity in the house, you keep at home (everything from food to clothing or furniture) and living at home (human animals and plants).

Some of the dust in every home, no matter how often or how thoroughly the house is clean.

House dust and air, which may contain small particles of soil and plants, indoors or outdoors, particles of human and animal skin (hair) and hair, fabric fibers, mold spores, dust mites, fragments of insects that have died and their waste, food scraps and other debris.

Although many substances in dust can trigger allergy symptoms, the most important allergens from dust mites inside, animal dander, cockroaches and molds.

While seasonal allergies like hay fever, allergies can last from within the year. Indoor allergens can cause or exacerbate asthma symptoms, according to the unique sensitivity of a person.

Indoor allergies tend to be worse in late summer, when the mites are at their peak.

Symptoms of allergy may actually be worse in winter, when windows are closed and people are in communion with the allergens.

Keep windows open at night during seasons of high levels of pollen and outdoor mold can aggravate your allergies or asthma symptoms, such as the high concentration of outdoor allergens are allowed to settle in your home.

If you are sensitive to indoor allergens, you are still signs all the time you are exposed to allergens.

Sensitivity to indoor allergens is very common and occurs in all ages. It is less common in children under 5 years. Those most likely to have allergic rhinitis are at the beginning of the school and early adult years.