According to research, cleaning is harmful to health, you should clean less often: what the facts say
How often should and can you clean the house? The general recommendation is once a week for serious cleaning. But you need to put things away in their places every day, immediately after use. It is better to remove stains and other surprises immediately, without waiting for them to dry out, eat in, become dusty, etc.
Maybe not clean at all?
Of course not. A clean apartment means comfort and health. Typhoid, dysentery, cholera, multiple intestinal disorders, lice, helminths and even simple acute respiratory infections and acute respiratory viral infections are great connoisseurs of dirt and dust. Among other things, exhaust from cars, plants, factories and thermal power plants, dust from the ground and plant pollen, which en masse provoke pulmonary diseases, allergies, complications of the central nervous system, even oncology, enter a city apartment from the street in large quantities.
The main enemy is air
If you live below the fourth or above the 10th floor, you will need purifiers, humidifiers and ionizers. As a comparative analysis of noise and gas maps has shown, car exhaust accumulates in the area of the 3rd floor.
Sound waves follow the shortest path, and if the buildings around them form a well, the upper floors will suffer from sound pollution, and not the lower ones at all. Well, all windows located above the tree crowns are a direct target for smoke waste from enterprises. Therefore, even ventilation in city apartments is a matter of dubious benefit: more dirt is applied than fresh air.Therefore, you should not keep the windows open all day. Two or three times for 15 minutes is enough, unless you live in an ecologically clean part of the country.
Should you clean too often?
Also no. And there are at least three reasons for this:
- In Norway, scientists monitored the well-being of men and women in an experimental group for 20 years and found that women who regularly cleaned were 3-4% more likely to suffer from asthma. In addition, housewives and professional cleaners noticeably decrease their exhalation volume (which also provokes asthma and pulmonary failure). Experts believe the reason is the irritating effect of household chemicals. In fact, women who regularly clean their house, apartment or office are ruining their health to the same extent as heavy smokers. Interestingly, no such pattern emerged in men.
- A European study found that frequent cleaning both at home and in the garden is equally harmful for both women and men. Over the course of a year, due to economic zeal, the subjects' blood pressure was constantly elevated and surges occurred more often than those who spent their leisure time doing leisurely rest or sports. According to scientists, it’s a matter of the nature of the loads. A thrown back head, a long tilted position, a lack of rhythm and calculated breaks, stress on the same muscle groups, etc. make cleaning both indoors and outdoors more of a harmful activity than a workout.
- Immunologists from around the world have found that people living in too clean apartments are more likely to suffer from seasonal diseases. Their immunity is reduced because the body is not used to fighting an aggressive environment.
How many times should I clean?
An old saying goes: sweep every day, mine - once a week.Previously, this was necessary so as not to spoil the wooden floors, but today - so as not to fall into fanaticism and not ruin your health and the immunity of the whole family.
In practice, it has been observed: if there are no pets in the house, parents work, and children go to kindergarten/school, dust, moss and dirt simply do not have time to accumulate. And even if there is a cat in the house, all its efforts will not be enough to dirty the entire house with fur in less than 5 days. Therefore, feel free to postpone floor cleaning to Saturday, Sunday or Friday evening.
The same applies to washing kitchen units: obvious drips and random puddles, of course, need to be washed right away, but in general the grease will not have time to stick to the facades and “apron” in a couple of days. Once a week, or even three, is the best option, especially if you have a hood.
Switches, door leaves and trim, refrigerator and cabinet doors are the same. Not every house has time to become covered with visible marks even within a week. Often they only need to be washed once every three weeks.
Advice
Try to use sharp-smelling household chemicals less often. Fresh dirt can be easily removed with clean water and flannel or microfiber. If every day, after brushing your teeth, you wipe the sink with a sponge and water or regular soap, then you will have to scrub it with a special cleaner much less often - once every 1-3 weeks.
Chandeliers, tops of cabinets and refrigerators, far shelves are a controversial issue. Dust, especially in the city, especially if there are a lot of textiles and fluffy animals in the apartment, accumulates incredibly quickly. The magazine purity-en.htgetrid.com recommends that its readers remove the layer of dust only when it becomes noticeable, but before it turns into flying terry.For faster and safer cleaning, you should get a hand-held vacuum cleaner or a magnetic whisk (hairs attract debris due to static electricity).
Cleaning optimization
In order not to cope with the huge amount of cleaning at the end of the month, it makes sense to spread it out over weeks: on one weekend, work on chandeliers, on others on doors and trim, on others on washing carpets, etc., so that the full cycle takes three to four weeks .
If there are small children, pets, or unemployed grandparents in the house, stains and dirt accumulate faster. For example, the kitchen has to be swept twice a day, and random stains and traces of food have to be washed away every day. And yet, general cleaning of the entire floor can be postponed until the weekend or done twice a week, no more often.
Finally, take a good look around the house. How much is too much in it? Is it really necessary to have figurines and figurines that are so difficult to dust off? Isn't it time to throw out those old torn towels? Use Marie Kondo's advice to get rid of everything unnecessary from your home, from your head, from your life.
Basic points: leave only those things that make you happy, assign each item its own place and immediately put it there after use, choose these places so that it is convenient to fold, store clothes and linen vertically, arranged in rolls, or folded in sets so as not to rummage in boxes, disrupting order. And when you start cleaning, think through at least a rough plan, for example, start with sorting out your wardrobe for spring, continue with windows and dust, and finish with floors.
Wash the clean rooms first, then the more dirty ones, and lastly wash the corridor, hallway and vestibule.Use modern microfiber rags, and after rinsing thoroughly after the last pass, put it in the car - don’t waste time and effort on something for which there is technology. The unit washes and dries the floor cloth much more efficiently, all you have to do is throw it on the edge of the bucket and put it under the sink or in the closet.
Today, electric brooms with a washing attachment, robotic vacuum cleaners and hand-held vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, dust whisks with a magnetic effect have been invented - spend a one-time amount of money to spend less time and health on cleaning.
The vacuum cleaner is the most dangerous. If they have ever been used to clean up after a renovation, especially during it, it may contain CARCINOGENS (asbestos, asbestos cement, etc.). If it has a nanofilter, then some of the particles passing through it are just as dangerous as the particles of it itself, which are also blown out. After all, cancer is a nanodisease caused by nanoagents. This is exactly the size of viruses and carcinogens!
Are you one of the doctors from Zen - there are many such authorities here!
Listen...what nonsense, is it that it turns out better to live in dust and dirt??
Svetlana, yes, it is better to live in dirt than in sterility. Sterility is the source of many diseases in children. Children who grew up in a sterile home are allergic, suffer from autoimmune diseases, and are constantly sick in the garden. Because their immunity is not properly formed. At the time when it should have been formed, it did not encounter a sufficient amount of diverse microflora. Doctor.
Probably just live in the dust... but most likely, they offer to hire a housekeeper.
Bad article.
everything should be in moderation, but sitting in the dirt in the city and on an area overgrown with grass outside the city is also not fun. Of course, robotics is a big help - but not everyone can afford it... we bought ourselves a robotic window cleaner and it literally saved us when cleaning a lot of windows in a city apartment
I know one woman who is clean, her article is correct
And I know 2 dirty women and they also have asthma.
Conclusion - the article is wrong...
Yes, clean people and even their children often become asthmatics and allergy sufferers. From life observations
All illiterate people need to get out of here!
Yes, that’s basically how we remove it. But there is always dust, even if you remove it every day.
I know a family in which they reactively frantically cleaned with all types of cleaning and cleaning due to the “allergies” of their 4-year-old daughter, and after 8 years of this “sterilization” the whole family became allergy sufferers, i.e. 6 people, including an elderly grandmother. Chemistry, although “household”, remains chemistry.
There are no illiterate people visible here, maybe just a typo. Please write to the point, only on the topic.They are not writing dictation here, leave your teacher habits behind.
If you have asthma and an allergy to dust, of course you will become a cleaner. Otherwise, you will become covered in dirt and will no longer be able to clean up without medications.
You need to clean up when you get dirty!
When I served in the Soviet army, all cleaning was done before meals in the morning, including washing the floors, there was no cleaning equipment, not even a mop, all work was done by hand, there were no sick people. Having returned from the army, I stick to cleaning my apartment in the morning, to the place of exercise, the apartment is always in order, I just make sure my family wipes their shoes in the front door, so they don’t bring dog bombs_shit_ into the house. As they say, if you litter, clean up after yourself immediately, cleanly where they don’t litter, but are constantly cleaning. You need to accustom yourself to the same thing as in the toilet, when you have emptied yourself, then everything will be in order.
In order not to drag sand, spit, and dog bombs from the street, if there is at least a small opportunity to separate a small vestibule from the hallway, hall or corridor with another door. And all the street shoes remain on the shoe rack, and there is no sand or any kind of infection from the street
We take off our shoes in the vestibule and immediately step over the threshold, without trampling our bare feet in the vestibule. You take off your shoe and immediately get up into the apartment, then you take off the second one, at the same time doing a balance exercise and training in the same sequence.
..."to the charging place"..
Why instead? No one canceled the exercise :-)) A
The apartment is being cleaned, but they are being put away.
At least one person is literate!
How nice it is to meet a competent person
There’s nothing new in the article, so we’re removing it, and so are most of my friends. Elena, Tatyana, judging by how sensitive you are to spelling, you are in the wrong place. If I log in from my phone, I sometimes miss letters.
Once a week you have to clean
Cleaning is a purely individual matter. Currently, science is developing rapidly, new technologies are emerging. It is possible to clean your home without using chemicals. Thanks to this, health is maintained and the family budget is saved. It also reduces the time it takes to clean the apartment.
What happens to a woman who is not at all old, who watches the chaos grow, but is no longer able to fight it?
Cooking yes, cleaning no!
It is pleasant to be clean and tidy, this is achieved through labor - cleaning. And without difficulty, you can’t even take a fish out of the pond. Like this.
And I always knew that cleaning is harmful))
You can turn cleaning into pleasure while maintaining your strength and health. To do this, you need to give up household chemicals.
In order not to drag sand, spit, and dog bombs from the street, if there is at least a small opportunity to separate a small vestibule from the hallway, hall or corridor with another door. And all the street shoes remain on the shoe rack, and there is no sand or any kind of infection from the street
We take off our shoes in the vestibule and immediately step over the threshold, without trampling our bare feet in the vestibule. You take off your shoe and immediately get up into the apartment, then you take off the second one, at the same time doing a balance exercise and training in the same sequence.
The first sensible article. I don’t belong to the category of super neat, but I love cleanliness and order. I clean it approximately as it is written in the article. I've never read anything like this, just on a whim. And it’s true about asthma. I know such people.
But I generally clean according to my mood! If I’m in the mood to clean, no, no, no, no trial?
You need to clean when you're in the mood, don't force yourself!!?
I fully support, everything should be done for joy.