Household Checklist

Implementing our household checklist can remove unnecessary additional stressors from your child’s total toxic load, allowing him or her to heal more quickly.

Have you checked your home for gas from carpets, glue, insulation, siding and cabinets?
Have you reduced the electromagnetic frequency in your home and electromagnetic smog near your home? Is your WiFi turned off?
Have you bought a Gauss meter to check for high EMF levels?
Have you checked your child’s toys to ensure they are non-toxic?
Have you checked for mold in the wall of your house, bathrooms and kitchen?
If you have an old home have you checked for radon gas? Asbestos?
Have you checked for VOC paint or lead in your home?
Are you using dish soap and dish washer soap with mercury and/or triclosan?
Have you changed your laundry soap, fabric softener and dyer sheets to non-toxic products without fragrances?
Have you changed your cleaning fluids to natural cleaning products that don’t have chemicals?
Have you changed your paper products to paper without bleach?
Are you using natural pest control products in your house and attic?
Does the wood in your home have arsenic or formaldehyde as a preservative?
Have you checked for phthalates and plastics?
Do you have a good air filter?
Have you removed the compact fluorescent light bulbs and replaced them with LEDs or incandescent bulbs?
Have you replaced all your plastic dishes, glasses and containers without PCBs?
Have you installed a water filter to eliminate chemicals from the tap water?
Have you removed perfumed candles and other chemically-laden perfumed soap products from your home?
Have you checked your mattress for flame retardants?
Have you replaced your vinyl shower curtains and liners to cotton or linen ones?
Have you had your family’s “silver” fillings replaced with non-mercury/non-BPA fillings?
Have you greened your home – toxic to non-toxic?

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