Keep your home from being a breeding ground for the cold or flu virus using these simple tips.
6 Approaches to Keep Your Home Flu Free
1. Control your remote
What’s the first thing someone does after calling in sick to work or school? They reach for the remote and hunker down with Netflix and some chicken soup. Ensure that their germs don’t hang around by disinfecting your remote regularly.
2. Lose the shoes
Flu-causing viruses and bacteria can hitch rides on shoes as well as the dirt they carry. Ditch your shoes when you first walk through the door and put on some slippers instead.
3. Work that washer
Have kids (or dogs) with lots of plastic and rubber toys? Disinfect them regularly by running them through your dishwasher. It’s a much more efficient approach to kill germs than spraying and wiping them down one by one. Consult Google if you’re unsure what’s dishwasher safe.
4. Humidify
Viruses love dry air. Research shows that homes kept at 40-60 percent humidity generally have fewer flu viruses floating around. Keeping the air in your home at that range can reduce the amount of flu virus in the air up to 30%. That’s definitely worth the price of a small humidifier.
5. Update your hardware
Copper, aluminum, lead, iron and silver are all antimicrobial – they actually kill bacteria. Brass is regarded as the most powerful germ slayer of all. Since doorknobs are a common gathering spot for germs, installing brass ones could be a stylish, and effective, technique for staying flu-free.
6. Replace (or nuke ) your kitchen sponge
That small square holds onto a myriad of germs. Replace it every week or so, or kill those festering colonies by blasting the sponge in the microwave for two minutes.
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