Reducing chemical exposures in indoor environments can improve individual and public health by targeting behavior change, household maintenance, purchasing decisions, consumer advocacy, and regulatory action.

Reducing chemical exposures at home: opportunities for action

There is some evidence linking indoor environmental factors to asthma, with house dust mite allergen being a potential causative factor, and healthcare professionals can promote measures to reduce exposure but not clinical improvement.

How is the indoor environment related to asthma?: literature review.

Air pollution, particularly from indoor sources, contributes to chronic diseases and is a major risk factor for children's health.

Air pollution and indoor settings

Using databases and material certifications, architects can reduce building material toxicity and protect occupants' health by designing with toxin-free products and adopting firm-wide policies.

Enhancing the Human Condition: Reducing Building Material Toxicity by Design

Toxics use reduction targeting endocrine disrupting compounds in consumer products can significantly reduce occupational and residential exposures, leading to safer products and widespread health benefits.

Toxics Use Reduction in the Home: Lessons Learned from Household Exposure Studies.

Lifestyle modifications significantly decrease indoor exposure to endocrine disruptors and urine concentrations, potentially aiding in the prevention of lifestyle-related diseases.

Changes in daily life reduce indoor exposure to selected endocrine disruptors in the home environment: a pilot intervention study.

This study developed an educational approach for limited resource households to reduce indoor air pollution risks, and tested its effectiveness through a pilot program.

Practical Management Strategies to Reduce Exposure Risks of Indoor Air Pollutants in Limited Resource Households

High indoor air pollution is influenced by household characteristics, occupant activities, and factors like cigarette smoking, gas appliances, and household products, with air exchange rates being negatively associated.

Indoor Exposure to Selected Air Pollutants in the Home Environment: A Systematic Review

Children are exposed to common environmental toxins, such as lead, radon, tobacco smoke, asbestos, pesticides, mercury, carbon monoxide, and electric/magnetic fields, and require identification, abatement, and parent education for effective prevention.

Children and environmental toxins.

Probiotic-supplemented yogurt may help lower toxic metal levels in pregnant women and children with elevated blood levels in Tanzania, but further research is needed.

Randomized Open-Label Pilot Study of the Influence of Probiotics and the Gut Microbiome on Toxic Metal Levels in Tanzanian Pregnant Women and School Children

Children are at higher risk for environmental toxins ingestion due to their smaller size, closer proximity to the ground, and oral exploratory behaviors.

Childhood Ingestions of Environmental Toxins: What Are the Risks?

Improving dietary diversity can reduce foodborne toxin exposure and promote health, potentially reducing health effects from common toxins like aflaxin and cassava cyanide.

Reduced foodborne toxin exposure is a benefit of improving dietary diversity.

Perceived normative pressure is the primary determinant of mothers engaging in behaviors to reduce childhood exposure to toxic chemicals, with risk perception and information seeking also playing a role.

Predicting Behaviors to Reduce Toxic Chemical Exposures Among New and Expectant Mothers

Preconception exposure to environmental toxins can negatively affect fertility, pregnancy, and fetal development, with potential multigenerational effects.

Before the beginning: environmental exposures and reproductive and obstetrical outcomes.

Decrease toxin exposure from air, food, and water through strategies such as avoiding pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides.

Toxin Exposure Reduction.

Reducing exposure to toxic environmental agents is crucial for reproductive health, with potential adverse effects on health outcomes, particularly in vulnerable populations.

Exposure to toxic environmental agents.

Reducing community exposure to environmental toxics is crucial for building healthy and sustainable communities, but addressing social, economic, and political factors is crucial for success.

Reducing Community Exposure to Toxics: A Critical Component in Building Healthy and Sustainable Communities

3D human liver and cardiac organoids show toxicity in response to environmental toxins, with thallium being the most toxic and glyphosate being the least toxic.

Environmental Toxin Screening Using Human-Derived 3D Bioengineered Liver and Cardiac Organoids

Nurses can play a key role in promoting environmentally responsible health care by educating patients, advocating for safer medical practices, and reducing exposure to harmful chemicals.

Promoting environmentally responsible health care.

How can I create a health-promoting home environment to reduce exposure to toxins?

These studies suggest creating a health-promoting home environment to reduce exposure to toxins involves reducing chemical exposures, improving household maintenance, making informed purchasing decisions, using toxin-free building materials, and targeting endocrine disrupting compounds in consumer products.