To protect yourself and your family from possible allergies, we learn to get rid of book dust.

E-books are the future, but in the present are precious family libraries collected by several generations. Yes, this is the business card of your house, which speaks of the intelligence of the owners, but it can make a proper impression only if the books are not covered with a layer of dust.

Dust allergy
 

Medical certificate

Book dust is one of the most common allergens today (along with house mites). Allergy symptoms resemble ARVI or ARI: obsessive runny nose, lacrimation, sore throat. Therefore, the doctor may mistakenly prescribe medications for colds that will not bring relief. The peculiarity of allergies is that its symptoms can appear once for a reason that seems to be incomprehensible, and can be repeated from year to year. The most severe forms of this disease are allergic bronchial asthma, anaphylactic shock, allergic lesions of the digestive tract and other internal organs.

Practice

To avoid such troubles, you need to keep the books clean.

It is best if they are stored in a closed bookcase, behind glass.

Enemies of books:

  • direct sunlight,
  • dampness
  • excessively dry air.

But even in this case, books and bookshelves need to be vacuumed at least twice a year. You can use a dry clean cloth for this: carefully remove all the books from the shelves, wipe the cabinet from the inside and brush the dust off the binding and spine.

Remove stains will help our recipes:

How to properly store and clean books

 

  • Ink stains on the binding and pages of books are removed using hydrogen peroxide.
  • Spots from the fingers are lightly rubbed with soap, then wiped with a clean damp flap.
  • Accidentally wet page can be sprinkled with talc, and then put the book under the press until dry. Another way: place a wet page between two white sheets of paper and dry by ironing. The same method is used to smooth out a crutched page (it must first be wet).
  • Fresh grease stains are removed by ironing a binding or book page with a hot iron through several layers of paper napkins, replacing them until the stain disappears.
  • Old fat spots come off if they are wiped with the pulp of fresh white bread.
  • Oil stains are sprinkled with dry chalk, tooth powder, white clay powder, then covered with clean paper and ironed with a hot iron. After that, the powder is shaken off.
  • Mold is removed with ammonia.
  • Traces of flies can be wiped with vinegar.