From ‘Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: My Thoughts on MCS‘
If lots of smoke is getting into your house even the best air purifier won’t be able to keep the air clean.
Start with one room
If it is difficult to make your bedroom smoke-free, sleep in a room that you can make smoke-free. Use an air purifier.
Where smoke gets in and what to do about it
Doors
⦁ Under the door and around the edges
⦁ Where a sliding door sits on a track (top and bottom)
Use door seals under doors and/or draught excluders or rolled up towels. Use Window and Door Weather Strip around the edges of doors or painter’s tape or masking tape to cover the gap. (This may make it difficult to open the door. Painter’s tape doesn’t stick as strongly as masking tape and can be restuck more often.)
Windows
⦁ Gaps around the opening part of an opening window
⦁ Damaged or deteriorated seals between the glass and the window frame
⦁ Gaps in aluminium window frames
⦁ Gaps between the window frame and the wall
Use Window and Door Weather Strip or painter’s tape or masking tape. Large gaps can be filled with cotton wool
Exhaust fans
If these do not seal when not in use, stick a piece of plastic over the opening with painter’s tape or masking tape
Ventilators
Cover with something smoke-proof
Floors
⦁ Gaps between floorboards
⦁ Gaps between the wall and the floor
For a permanent seal use an appropriate sealant. For a temporary seal use painter’s or masking tape, or cover the floor with a rug or blanket.From Sensitivity Matters December 2019
Air your house when the air is clean or at least cleaner, if necessary one room at a time and then use an air purifier to clean the air. Use a vacuum with a HEPA filter and wipe surfaces with a damp cloth to get rid of smoke particles.
More
The Conversation: How to manage your essential medicines in a bushfire or other emergency
The Conversation: Our Buildings aren’t Made to Keep out Bushfire Smoke
ANRES: 2019 ANRES Annual Update on People with Enviromental Sensitivities
AESSRA: Sensitivity Matters Magazine
The Latest 2019 Science-based Medicine Research Study from Professor Anne Steinemann from Melbourne University: The Impact of Fragrances in Australia
Yep, good tip
Your welcome 😉
At eighty, diagnosed 1974, woodsmoke is, in retirement, now my main toxicant. We have been using the good suggestions you mention here, also plastic over windows. We also have wind indicators outside. Like me so many folks, MCS, or asthma, cardiac etc.find this site supportive and informative.
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Thank you. We feel you mate, more and more people are getting sick and the amount of support groups, including media organisations is most helpful for us. I, myself, lived years in rentals where wood-smoke would get in through floor cracks and wot not, well, I went through a lot of painters masking tape, I tell you.It’s important to ventilate when you can, I schedule before people wake up in the mornings. Thanks for your supportive and kind words.