Health and Safety Tips:

• Improve air quality:
  • Do not allow smoking in your home, especially if children are present.
  • Vacuum carpets frequently to remove allergens that trigger asthma attacks and allergic reactions.
• Talk with your children about healthy behaviors.
• Spend less time watching TV and more time getting physically active.
• Know both the benefits and the health-related risks of owning and caring for animals.
• Protect your children from lead poisoning by painting before old paint chips and peels in older homes.
• Protect your children from strangulation by moving blind cords out of reach.
• Pregnant women should not handle cat litter due to the risk of toxoplasmosis.

Health and Safety Tips:

• Improve air quality:
  • Do not allow smoking in your home, especially if children are present.
  • Vacuum carpets frequently to remove allergens that trigger asthma attacks and allergic reactions.
• Talk with your children about healthy behaviors.
• Spend less time watching TV and more time getting physically active.
• Know both the benefits and the health-related risks of owning and caring for animals.
• Protect your children from lead poisoning by painting before old paint chips and peels in older homes.
• Protect your children from strangulation by moving blind cords out of reach.
• Pregnant women should not handle cat litter due to the risk of toxoplasmosis.

Green Tip

• Turn off the computer monitor if the time between computer uses will be more than 20 minutes. (EERE)