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All across the country this winter we're enduring colder weather than normal as well as outrageously high prices for gas and oil. I know your utility bills are giving you a headache, but winter brings other headache causes too.
Glare is a major cause of winter headaches. Are you wearing good sunglasses? Particularly necessary when there is a snow cover, sunglasses are a wise measure year round to protect against cataracts among other things. Do you wear a hat and perhaps a scarf when it's very cold? Forget hat hair - you need a hat and/or scarf to prevent loss of body heat - and headaches. Second, indoors, where we spend most of our time in the winter. Many of us are using woodstoves, coal stoves, gas stoves, fireplaces, and kerosene space heaters to keep warm without sending the fuel oil man's kids to college on one season's worth of our bills. If you use a woodstove, as we do, or a fireplace, you need to have your chimney cleaned annually. The cost is a small price to pay to save yourself the danger of a chimney fire or at the very least respiratory problems. You know the smoke and odors from these alternative heat sources get into the drapes, rugs, furniture, etc., but they also hang in the air long enough to give your family allergies, breathing problems, and headaches. Proper ventilation is very important. And a CO2 detector is a smart investment. A few things you may not have considered - being so preoccupied with the winter itch and what to do with the kids on snow days. * If your garage is connected to the house, there should be a good air seal between. Of course you raise the door before you start the car, but have you looked lately at the stuff that's accumulated out there? And how about the dust? Fumes and dust get into the house through the ducts and cracks and who knows where else. * Paint, strong cleaning solvents and other hazardous materials should be moved to a shed disconnected from the house. The fumes can get into the house and cause headaches and worse. * Think about using milder cleaning products inside during the winter when the house is closed up tight. * Go up to the attic to clean out squirrel or other animal nests, and find leaks. The basement too while you're at it. * You hate dusting knick-knacks anyway. Consider packing them away, at least until spring. Dust aggravates allergies which lead to headaches. Go To Page: 1 2
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