Five easy steps to protect your kids from toxics
We’ll do anything it takes to protect our kids and make sure they succeed. Learn how you can lower your children’s exposure to potentially harmful chemicals in and around your home through some simple, easy and budget-friendly actions.
The Canadian Partnership on Children’s Health and the Environment (CPCHE) is helping parents get key information about reducing the health risks associated with toxics in the environment with a new brochure available at www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca.
A clean environment ensures our kids and grandkids have the greatest chance of success, both in their early developmental years and throughout their lives.
Here are the top five ways to reduce toxics in your home:
1) Bust that dust
Frequent vacuuming or wet mopping and dusting with a damp cloth top the list.
2) Go green when you clean
Parents can reduce their family’s exposure to toxic chemicals and save money by switching to simple, non-toxic cleaners.
3) Renovate right
CPCHE recommends that pregnant women and children stay away from areas being renovated to avoid exposure to contaminant-laden renovation dust and toxic fumes from products such as paints, caulking and glues.
4) Get drastic with plastic
Be selective using of plastic products, especially when it comes to serving and storing food.
5) Dish safer fish
To reduce children’s exposure to mercury, a metal that is toxic to the brain, the experts advise choosing fish low in mercury, such as Atlantic mackerel, herring, rainbow trout, wild or canned salmon and tilapia
Learn more at healthyenvironmentforkids.ca or pick up a copy of the July issue of Today’s Parent for a copy of the brochure. It’s available in Ontario as a special supplement section.
