How House Cleaning Keeps Your Family Safe

How Cleaning Keeps Your Family Safe

Reduces the Chances of Getting Sick

This is the most common reason people give, and for a good reason. The improvement to your health from cleaning your house is beyond dispute. A clean house is a happy house, as people say.

There are millions of harmful bacteria in places like your toilet bowls or doorknobs alone. That is just one tiny area, not even mentioning the other spots or the germs we bring in. You don’t get sick from them because our immune systems can usually handle this. 

However, they can only handle it because the rest of our house is clean. Every day you produce a lot of waste and garbage in our homes with tons of germs and bacteria. If you don’t act responsibly, that builds up and can spread all over your home. 

If no place isn’t covered in germs, they will swarm over you no matter where you are. The result is it overloads your immune system. When you get sick, you will have a hard time recovering. With so many germs, your body will be hard-pressed to deal with them all.

That is where having regular cleaning comes in. While it can’t eliminate all the germs in your home, you can at least keep them under control. That is key to keeping yourself healthy and strong.

Reducing Fire Hazards

Another way regular house cleaning keeps your home safe is by preventing house fires. While that might sound like a stretch, it’s more common than you realize. Many of the things in your house is flammable and can catch fire if you’re not careful. You have clothes, curtains, and most of your furniture, and one spark is all it takes.

None of this even mentions the gas and oil we keep in our house for cooking. 

That doesn’t happen, though, because people keep their things organized. You know to keep our clothes away from matches or gas away from curtains. If You keep our house neat, you also reduce the fire hazard risks.

The issues come when you’re not keeping our house tidy and when you just throw things everywhere without caring about the potential hazards. There are countless cases of housefires starting because of a mess someone left behind. 

You can find cases of someone leaving a candle too close to the curtains or water near an electrical plug. Although these seem like unlikely scenarios, they do happen, and most people think that until it happens to them.

That is why regular cleaning is vital. You keep everything in its place but check for potential risks. It gives you a chance to find all these accident spots and fix them before they worsen. 

Preventing Accidents

While not as dangerous as a house fire, they can still be a massive problem. A messy home is more likely to have accidents. Many people get in enough accidents when the house is tidy and clear, and adding more obstacles worsens it.

Many of us know the pain of stepping on a lego or tripping on a book. Another thing could be messes, and spilled food or water on the floor is just falls waiting to happen. Don’t get me started on dog droppings.

Those are just some of the milder cases of accidents happening thanks to messiness. While these don’t seem like a big deal for many people, they can be to older people. When you fall, you get back up, as the saying says, but for older people or those with disabilities, that’s easier said than done. 

One fall can lead to severe injuries if you are not careful. It’s not uncommon for someone to suffer from some nasty bruising after a tumble, and some can even end up in the hospital if they are not careful. There are at least 3 million hospitalizations and millions more hospital visits resulting from accidents every year.

Aside from being a human tragedy, it can rack up the hospital bill, and some people can pay tens of thousands of dollars all from a stray accident.

Cleaning your home works just like fire safety, and it ensures that everything is in its place. Although this won’t entirely end the risk, it can at least reduce it.

Reduces Dust Particles

When cleaning, it isn’t just getting rid of germs and bacteria, and a good part is also about dusting. This is an as0ect that you can’t ignore because it has a vital role in your health. Although dust particles don’t seem like much, they can quickly build up.

If you look at your carpet or shelves after a few weeks of not cleaning, you can see an entire layer of dust. Aside from just looking like you don’t care about your home, that stuff can get into your lungs.

Dust is a big reason your room feels stuffy when too much of it is in the air. Most people will have a hard time breathing, and while inconvenient, that shouldn’t be too much of a problem. However, the problem is if you have some respiratory issues.

Dust particles also carry irritants like pollen and animal hair, which can cause allergies or asthma to act up. It’s a big part of why people conduct spring cleaning. 

When there are too many particles, it can also affect healthy people. Dust can make breathing difficult, and stray particles can get into your body. Healthy lungs can only take so much before they wear down, and you can suffer breathing problems. 

Some areas are just natural magnets to dust particles, such as carpets, and they can capture dust while wearing down the rug’s appearance.  Thanks to the fabric, you can’t just sweep the dust away, and instead, you have to vacuum the area. 

That is why you need cleaning, to make sure none of your rooms get to this point. Even dusting once or twice a week can make a huge difference, and cleaning reduces the amount of dust that builds up is only a fraction of itself.

Keeping Out COVID-19

People are rightfully afraid for their safety with the pandemic still going on. It seems like everyone’s main fear after going out is if they bring the virus home to their loved ones. However, what if there are ways to mitigate those effects.

Each time someone gets home, there is a chance that they have the virus on them and can spread it to other people. However, applying the virus isn’t instantaneous, and there needs to be time to build up, which gives you a chance to stop it.

Just as personal hygiene is essential, so is a clean house. With both of those, you can reduce the risk in your home.

By disinfecting areas you touch regularly, you don’t give the germs a chance to develop and spread out. People already do that for themselves, but you extend this effort to the things you touch by cleaning.