Cleaning Isn’t Clean

Even though the point of cleaning your house is to make it cleaner,

the process of cleaning your house actually makes things worse.
Cleaning stirs up dust, hair, dander, and other powerful allergens. Ironically,
those who schedule their big cleaning of the year to coincide with
the arrival of spring are leaving themselves doubly vulnerable, because
they will increase the spread of allergens inside their houses just when
the amount of allergens outside their houses is peaking.
“I DON’T KNOW anybody who enjoys vacuuming,” Carla says. “It’s not
fun to begin with. Then, it stirs up so much in the air that I can’t stop
sneezing.”
The solution for Carla was a robot.
“Robots are not just for the Jetsons anymore,” Carla says. Robots can
vacuum your house or mow your lawn, among other sneeze-inducing
tasks. “It’s good for people who are short on time, elderly people, lazy
people, people with handicaps, and allergy sufferers,” she adds.
The robot scans the size of the room and then automatically covers
the space without any human input. “It may not look like the robots
in the movies,” she says of the machine that looks like a large radio on
wheels. “But this one is real, and it saves time, trouble, and my nose.”
Carla happily adds, “I let it do its work, and then I enjoy the clean fl oor.”
For most people, allergies can interfere with many aspects of the quality of
life, including getting a good night’s sleep (68 percent), engaging in outdoor
activities (53 percent), being able to concentrate (50 percent), and being
productive at work (43 percent). Four out of fi ve people with allergies
experience
heightened symptoms when cleaning the house. (American College of
Allergy, Asthma and Immunology 2002)