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| Tips for Dusting | Everyone knows how dust looks like – it is thin layer of soft, grey-white substance that accumulates on your knick-knacks and tables. Dust seems pretty harmless, but it is actually quite a pest. The matter is that dust is something like a hodgepodge of allergens. There are different miniature things are found in average dust bit, for example, dead skin cells, dust mites and their excrement, animal dander, pollen and spores. So on the whole, if there is something in this world that will activate an allergic reaction or just irritate your airways, you can find it in dust.
If you take a nip of dust out of your vacuum cleaner and set it under a microscope, you would find some of the following things:
 Paint particles (which depending on the paint, can contain lead)
Particles of smoke
Dust mites and their feces
Particles from auto and industrial emissions
Mold spores
Plant and insect body parts
Heavy hydrocarbon throw away from your oil or gas heater
Heavy metals (lead, cadmium and mercury)
Constructions debris
Asbestos
Rodent excrement (which becomes airborne as it dehydrates)
Bacteria
Grains of metal from door hinges or other places where metal is creating friction against metal
Even if you have lungs of steel or commit random acts of dusting, for those with allergies or asthma, it is imperative to maintain dust levels down indoor. According to the size and make-up of dust particles, they can stay floating in the air for several hours up to a couple of days.
Even people without allergy can be affected by dust, just for the reason that some of the particles can be absorbed through the skin as well as inhaled. This means that asbestos and lead dust from the paint and other heavy metals can be damaging if they fall on your skin. An element like rodent waste that has become dehydrated is easily inhaled with other dust particles and has the potential to cause some serious health risks.
Tips for Dusting
 Try to clean highly visited rooms like bedrooms and living rooms weekly. Pay suspicious attention to areas where dust can accumulate such as corners, picture frames, door frames, window sills, etc.
If you have allergies or asthma, you should have a non-allergic person dust and vacuum for you.
It takes about 20 minutes for dust to fall on surfaces after sweeping or dusting, so after cleaning, go out for a few minutes so that you won’t get your lungs filled with dust.
There is no fast solution for keeping dust from being produced, since every situation is different. The quantity of dust you find in your house may associate with its age or simply to the part of the country you live in. Typically, using a HEPA quality furnace filter will help decrease the general amount of dust in your air.
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