The EPA has for years provided evidence-based guidance designed specifically for schools—their Tools for Schools—yet as of the start of the pandemic, more than half of all schools in the US had not adopted a framework for effective air quality management, called an Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Management plan. These are not opaque jargony strategies …
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In case anyone is looking for another good cause and a tax deductible donation… As you probably know, I’ve been operating the website SolveEczema.org for over 15 years, to share what I’ve learned about how to solve eczema and related conditions, to reduce allergy and achieve clear, healthy skin. I’ve done everything I can to share my …
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Since so many of kids are spending more time indoors because of the pandemic, I just wanted to share this article from Smithsonian Magazine by Joseph Stromberg, discussing a study about the effect of CO2 on thinking: Carbon Dioxide in a Crowded Room Can Make You Dumber. The article points out that occupied rooms can …
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I have heard from SolveEczema.org users, including doctors, who used the SolveEczema strategies just so they could wash their hands a lot and not dry or damage their skin. Over the years, many site users who used Solveeczema.org to get rid of eczema, have also described successfully using the website to get rid of dry …
Here’s a really interesting report that seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle amid all the disruptions this pandemic spring. Article in Ed Week The original paper The Aliso Canyon gas leak in Southern California was big news a few years ago. As a result, a dozen and a half elementary schools in the …
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After weeks of sheltering in place, as the nation reopens, I would like to know what has been done in the interim to sharpen the understanding of hygiene to contain the virus and allow normal life without fear of making things worse again? Hygiene is not cleaning or killing every germ, it’s what you do …
Some years ago, I posted a page on my blog with homegrown steps for preventing colds and flus by heading them off before they get going. I am reposting them below, updated, for family and my doctor. In the close to 20 years that I have employed these strategies, I have never had the incipient …
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If you have used SolveEczema.org’s environmental strategies to address eczema, you may be wondering: is there a difference between soaps and detergents—in the way SolveEczema.org defines them—for washing hands and surfaces to protect against the new coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 that causes Covid-19? First, the CDC cleaning guidance for the public to prevent the spread of Covid-19 …
I have decided to expand the scope of my posts during the pandemic, to include a backlog of SolveEczema-related updates, but also education—my son is now going off to college—environmental health, and other problems that need attention since national news is so focused, necessarily, on the pandemic. Some things need to be said, that aren’t …
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Most medications are made up of the active ingredient — the medicine — and inert ingredients, such as dyes to help identify the medication. Medications can contain Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) and other detergents. They can also contain other substances people are frequently allergic to, like dyes. Talc is another frequent ingredient, despite credible concerns …
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