The Allergy-Free Home: A Practical Guide to Creating a Healthy Environment (Hardcover)

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Product Description

Addressing allergy relief with a home-design approach, this guide teaches how to plan, organize, and decorate a home to create healthful surroundings for sufferers of all types of allergies. Beginning with a list of allergy symptoms, this guide leads allergy sufferers through diagnosis, pinpoints the probable causes for each symptom, and provides practical solutions and strategies to implement in the home. Beautiful color photographs illustrate how to put these concepts into practice and provide home designers with inspiration.

About the Author

Vittoria D'Alessio is a former health editor of Marie Claire magazine.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 124 pages
• Publisher: Interweave Press (December 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883010977
• ISBN-13: 978-1883010973
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 8.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,063,264 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars VERY HELPFUL, July 20, 2003

By A Customer

Being prone to allergies I found this a very inciteful and helpful book. This is a down-to-earth and practical look at how protect you and your family from everything from dust mites to asthma. At last a book written in simple english to help us allergy sufferers.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars not practical at all - it would have 0 stars if possible, July 2, 2002

By A Customer

Here's an example of this "practical advice": page 118 - "Choose deoderants that work by inhibiting the growth of odor-forming bacteria on your body" . . . Nowhere does it say how to identify what these might be or where to buy them if you knew what they were. "Ask a non-allergic person to groom dogs several times a week outside" page 77 . Like I couldn'thave thought of that all by myself? And what do these examples have to do with my home? Then it tells me on page 11 "our bodies encounter fewer microbes in daily life and our immune systems have started to tilt away from a protective response towards an allergic one" (supposedly because people are "too" clean nowadays) and then they spend the rest of the book telling me to avoid toxic substances (like the aforementioned deoderant!) I will agree that it has some very nice pictures in it as the reviewer stated. . .