Is the health of your home affecting your personal health?
Aspects of Healthiness
Does your optimum health picture include focus on the healthy home environment?
Is Your Home or Work Place Making You Sick and Tired?
Despite an individual’s illness or prognosis, advances in integrative medicine and holistic approaches to health care now consider the built environment to be a significant factor in enhancing health and maintaining optimum wellness. In fact, many medical professionals now widely consider the suitability of one’s home or workplace a key to managing the symptoms of health conditions, aging, or serious illnesses.
Environmental conditions are often a factor in the individual’s health, sometimes causing an illness, exacerbating an existing condition, or complicating severe symptoms accompanying a life-altering illness. In some cases, the environment can become unhealthy, compromise the body’s systems, and in some cases, become life threatening.
Our household environment may be a factor in the illness of a family member. Is there anything I can do?
The environment is such a significant factor in recovery and symptom management that home health care professionals are often asked to identify those things in the home which could cause or increase illness, decrease immunity, erode air quality, and other factors. However, medical personnel are not trained as specialists in the field. “What if they miss something?” Your home environment is often overlooked.
For most people, identifying and addressing environmental factors negatively influencing health and wellness is a difficult issue. We as human have deep seated feelings about “home,” as a place of safety.
If our home is unwell or is unworkable in the context of illness, it can bring up emotional issues for every member of the household, not just the person who is sick. “How do I deal with my feelings of inadequacy? Have I failed as a caregiver?”
A family faced with serving the health and wellness needs of a family member may have no idea where to begin, or how to afford the work that is needed to improve the conditions in their home. “Where do we start?” “Where am I going to find the money?”
Are there environmental wellness factors I should consider?
Don’t let these factors stand between you
and your optimum health and wellness!
- Asbestos
- Bacterial scum
- Bedbugs
- Black widow spiders
- Broken glass
- Brown recluse spiders
- Carbon monoxide
- Chemical off-gassing
- Cleaning solutions
- Clutter
- Cockroach dander
- Combustion gasses
- Construction debris
- Cooking Oil
- Dust
- Dust mites
- Electrical hazards
- Fall hazards
- Fiberglass
- Fleas
- Flue gasses
- Formaldehyde
- Furnace issues
- High humidity
- Human dander
- Lead
- Lint
- Methamphetamines
- Mold
- Mosquitos
- Noise
- Odors
- Ozone
- Paint
- Pest infestation
- Pesticides
- Pet dander
- Petroleum products
- Plumbing issue
- Radon
- Rodents
- Security issues
- Septic system issues
- Sharp objects
- Slip hazards
- Snakebite
- Soot
- Tetanus
- Tobacco smoke
- Too hot
- Too cold
- Too damp
- Too dry
- Unvented log sets
- Volatile Organic Chemicals
- Water Quality
- Water intrusion
- Wood smoke
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- Contents contamination
- Decay
- Dirty Sock Syndrome
- Fire damage
- Mold contamination
- Neglect
- Pest infestation
- Sick House Syndrome
- Structural damage
- Termite damage
- Tight House Syndrome
- Vandalism
- Water damage
- Weathering
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- Allergy
- Asbestosis
- Aspergillosis
- Asthma
- Bacterial infection
- Bronchitis
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- COPD
- Croup
- Dermatitis
- Dyspnea
- Eczema
- Edema
- Emphysema
- Endocarditis
- Fibromyalgia
- Fungal infection
- Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
- Hay Fever
- Heat Stress
- Histoplasmosis
- Hypersomnia
- Lead Poisoning
- Legionnaire’s Disease
- Lung Cancer
- MRSA
- Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
- Myocarditis
- Paresthesia
- Pneumonia
- Psittacosis
- Rabies
- Staph infection
- Tetanus
- Toxic Neuropathy
- Vasculitis
- Viral infection
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- Body injury
- Burns
- Confusion
- Cough
- Cuts
- Depression
- Difficult to concentrate
- Difficulty breathing
- Dry eyes
- Dry skin
- Eye irritation
- Fatigue
- Fever
- Fluid build-up
- Fogginess of thought
- Headache
- Immune system stress
- Inadequate sleep
- Lost sense of taste
- Lung Cancer
- Muscle aches
- Nasal irritation
- Nervous system disease
- Poisoning
- Reduced lung function
- Runny nose
- Scarring of lung tissue
- Skin rash
- Stress
- Swollen sinuses
- Throat irritation
- Throat tightness
- Tightness of the lungs
- Worry
Let us help you find workable solutions to ensure optimum health and wellness for you and your family.
For many families, the ability to remain in their homes requires awareness of a new level of health and wellness interventions. At Rick Bayless’ A Healthier Home, we know from experience and training that the right interventions can prove particularly effective in the improvement of health and wellness.
Our systemic approach to the systems of the home or commercial structure, like a systemic approach to a physical examination by a doctor, ensures every environmental factor is considered individually and holistically, as part of a living ecosystem.
Emotional issues surrounding the home or work place suitability due to environmental factors may be best dispelled by looking at the facts, not our fears. Our trained environmental examination specialists looks at exactly what is needed to increase the home’s wellness as a source of support for the individual.
We help you decide how and when to take action in order to enhance recovery and alleviate symptoms in the order of importance to you.
Addressing the affordability issue head on, we help you choose where to invest resources and how to cut costs. Then, we help you determine a workable budget for how and when the work will take place.
Together, we find workable solutions to improve your environmental wellness and ensure optimum health for your family members or employees.