If you think housecleaning is a dirty word, you’re not alone! But clever cleaning shortcuts (like focusing solely on high-traffic areas) can make it less painful – in more ways than one. Here are some ofArthritis Today读者最喜欢的清洁技巧和工具,以保护他们的关节。Continue readingYou Said It: Favorite Cleaning Tips and Products for Arthritis
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Six Ways to Cut Your Clutter
An uncluttered house is a safer house: Less stuff lying around meansfewer tripping hazards. Follow these steps to declutter and get organized.Continue readingSix Ways to Cut Your Clutter
Five Germ Hotspots Lurking in Your Home
When you have aninflammatory type of arthritis, the disease itself and medications used to treat it can make you more likely to get infections. Everyday objects that you might overlook may be teeming with viruses and bacteria, raising the risk for illness. Be sure to disinfect these germ hotspots.Continue readingFive Germ Hotspots Lurking in Your Home
You Said It: Making House Chores Easier
Arthritis Todayreaders answered the question: How do you make household chores easier on your arthritis? Here’s what they had to say:
Avoiding Germs When You Have Arthritis
Germs lurk everywhere, populating surfaces from public restroom sinks to kitchen counters and computer keyboards. A single sneeze from a flu sufferer launches thousands of virus particles across an entire room, and those germs can linger in the air for hours. Most people’s immune system can deftly handle these would-be invaders, but anyone with autoimmune and inflammatory forms of arthritis need to take special precautions. The same drugs that suppress the joint-damaging immune response can leave you vulnerable to bugs that cause disease.
Learn how to clean some of the most commonly germ-infested areas of your home and office, and protect yourself from bacteria and viruses that can make you sick.
11 Cleaning Tips That Will Spare Your Joints
Streamline cleaning tasks to maximize sparkle and minimize joint pain and strain. Here are some household cleaning tips and cleaning shortcuts.
1. House cleaning tips begin with pacing yourself.Instead of a dedicated chore day, clean just one room a day. “If you do everything in one day, you’ll end up overexerting yourself,” says Linda Cobb, author ofTalking Dirty With the Queen of Clean(Pocket Books, 2004).
2. Focus on heavy-traffic areas.“You may need to vacuum only the pathway from the kitchen to the doorway to help spruce up the place,” says Donna Smallin, author ofThe One-Minute Cleaner(Storey Publishing, LLC, 2007).
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