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Title: My House Is Killing Me! The Home Guide for Families With Allergies and Asthma by Jeffrey C. May, Jonathan M. Samet ISBN: 0-8018-6730-4 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A really helpful book
Comment: I've read several other books on this topic,plus consulted with a doctor specializing in environmental illness (EI), but I still learned a lot from this book and it's my favorite. Why? Because it's full of practical, doable things YOU can do around your house to make it a healthier environment. Many of the other EI folks want you to tear your house apart, even when there's no evidence that your house is the culprit. This approach makes far more sense. Some patients must, of course, take drastic measures, but many of us do not. Start with this book, then read John and Lynn Bower's books if you need more detail. It's an easy read and cheap. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent Book!
Comment: I read this book with a great deal of interest. Recently my sister-in-law was getting sicker and sicker from living in a toxic mold infected apartment. One doctor diagnosed her as having MS and another suggested psychiatric treatment! She got sicker and sicker, started to really lose it, her speech was becoming garbled, she felt like she was losing her memory. In mid-sentence she would suddenly lose her train of thought. I took some mold spore counts in her bedroom and they were through the roof. Finally after constant pestering on my part, they moved into a hotel. Immediately she started to get better.
Today, living in a different apartment, a much cleaner one, she is well again, back to work too.
I do research and write about plants and allergies (Safe Sex in the Garden) and although this fine book by May doesn't touch on outside landscapes, he does do an excellent job of exploring sickness-causing agents within the house. He gets deeply into all parts of a house, from the attic to the basement.
For many people affected by allergies, asthma, and a host of related environmentally triggered illnesses, reading this book would be an excellent idea. If I had one knock on the book it would be that the whole subject of what is growing right outside the bedroom window is ignored. But, to be fair, May sticks to what he knows best here. I have had numerous clients who would wake up every morning feeling lousy, often with sore throats. No one seemed to be able to figure out his or her problem. When I was asked to look over their properties for highly allergenic plants I'd often find a profuse pollen-producing shrub or tree right outside their bedroom window. Sometimes the offending shrub will be a male Podocarpus or a male Yew, both of which produce considerable pollen that is light, dry, tiny, allergenic, and quite poisonous. The solution in these cases is simple; replace the shrub. I recently photographed some of this pollen through my microscope, on a glass slide, over which I placed a small piece of window screen. The photo is impressive. Close to a thousand grains of this pollen could pass, simultaneously, through each tiny square of the window screen!
But I digress. This book, My House is Killing Me! Is a fine book and answers many important questions about indoor pollutants. Jeffery May has provided a valuable contribution to the field of indoor, household contaminants. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Just the beginning
Comment: This is one of the best of the books on detoxifying your home. It goes into the level of detail most people need to really figure out what to do. It's on a par with some of the best Web sites on the subject (i.e. greenhome.com, et al). And it gets its info right. I should know, as I've read almost all the similar books in my efforts to detoxify my home, including the first (and still one of the best): Linda Mason Hunter's Healthy Home. So I would get this book, as it is a great way to learn about the tools for the coming Renaissance in simple and natural living. Mssrs. May and Samet have really done a nice job in moving the ball forward. Kudos!
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Title: What Every Home Owner Needs to Know About Mold: And What to Do About It by Vicki Lankarge ISBN: 0071412905 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 21 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Healthy House : How to buy one, How to build one, How to cure a sick one, 4th revised ed. by John Bower ISBN: 0963715690 Publisher: Healthy House Inst Pub. Date: 28 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Healthy House Answer Book: Answers to the 133 Most Commonly Asked Questions by John Bower, Lynn Marie Bower ISBN: 096371564X Publisher: Healthy House Inst Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Indoor Air Quality Handbook by John D. Spengler, John F. McCarthy, Jonathan M. Samet ISBN: 0074455494 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 19 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $125.00 |
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Title: Prescriptions for a Healthy House by Paula Baker-Laporte, Erica Elliott, John Banta, Lisa Flynn ISBN: 0865714347 Publisher: New Society Pub Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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