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Article: Indoor allergens & women's health.
- Article from:
- National Women's Health Report
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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Laura Martin is only 19, but already the college sophomore knows more than she ever wanted to about indoor allergens. She knows that her allergies to mold and dust mites meant ripping up the carpet in her childhood bedroom, getting rid of the spa and wooden deck just outside her bedroom and replacing the sliding glass doors in that room, because mold grew on them.
Now that she lives in a sorority house at the University of Idaho in Moscow, ID, however, things are a bit more complicated. After all, she can't make major changes to a home she doesn't own. So, she's doing what she can to avoid mold spores and dust mites: She covers her mattress and pillowcases in her ...