(173 votes, average: 4.6 out of 5)
Loading ...A new school year has started and with each new school year comes new school issues. Some schools will focus on kids bullying, others will focus on anti-drug issues, of course, you cannot forget alcohol, and the newest issues are teachers wearing perfume and smoking on school property.
Many school districts are facing air quality issues. In the fall the air, your child breaths in outdoors can affect their allergies in many ways. Fall leaves contain mold, a common trigger for an allergy attack, then there is the pollen count, although pollen count is down it is still in the air, and for some even the grass and leaves falling from trees cause breathing to be compromised.
Then there are the indoor air quality concerns in school classrooms. Schools are continually using cleaning supplies throughout the day, which may give off unpleasant smells that trigger allergy attacks. When a child’s teacher is wearing perfume or had a cigarette during break it can make it hard for an allergy sensitive child to breathe. In some situations, just the smell of the perfume or cigarette smoke lingering on a teacher has resulted in a child having going to a hospital for treatment.
In the past fee, year’s schools have taken a stand demanding staff and visitors refrain from smoking on or near the school building. Some school districts do not allow staff to smoke at any time prior to or during their scheduled teaching hours. As great as that sounds your child continues to be exposed to such triggers. Children are often exposed to perfume or smoke that comes to the classroom on another students clothing, books, hair, backpacks and more from their home environment.
Most common known allergens
The most common known allergens found in the school classroom are those we usually can see and read about like:
- Chalkboard dust
- Common dust
- Dander and bedding from the classroom pet
- Pollen from open windows
School staff we do their best to keep the classrooms allergy free for our child, but they have little control over allergens that are brought into classroom environments. So, is there anything we can do? Of course, we need to think like investigators. Paying attention to allergen triggers and asking questions, carefully evaluating by sight and smells what could be causing our child’s allergy symptoms to react.
Most importantly, always anticipate that new allergens will be present in the classroom, and teach your child to identify allergen triggers and how to avoid them. The best-added prevention to help your child is to find an all-natural supplement to help eliminate the irritants caused by allergens. You can stop your child from experiencing the painful effects of perfume and smoke allergy triggers in the school classroom.
Written by Samantha Kellog for MicroNutra Health™