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How to get rid of dust basement/basement allergies?
Whenever I go in my basement for extended periods of time, like 30 minutes or more, I get sneezing and shortness of breath and I think it is because my basement is so dusty, we have boxes all cluttered in the back so we can't really clean it too well, and I am planning on moving my gym into the basement because the garage is usually like 40 degrees Fahrenheit, but I need a way to clean it up, yesterday I opened my garage and basement door am aired it out with a fan, and today I mopped what floors I could do, and I don't think it is as bad now but what else can I do to remove the dust and stop my allergies down there?
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- GeorgeLv 47 years agoFavorite Answer
Give it a good vacuuming, walls ceiling and floor, wear a mask while doing it. Try to keep airing it. A dehumidifier might help to keep the air dry and mold free and an air filter might help when you use the area to catch whats left.
- OU812Lv 77 years ago
It is probably a dust mite allergy. Have you been tested for that? The only way to help is to remove things that can harbor dust mites like carpet and cloth furniture. I replace my carpet with linoleum and cloth furniture with leather. A dehumidifier will help also but humidity must be kept at less than 60% to be effective. Also under stand that vacumming doesn't help the issue. Aboyt 50% of the population has dust mite allergies. The allergy is not to dust, it is actually to what the mites excrete from their body as waste and a vacuum isn't going to help that much.
