I am now doing more laundry after noticing that our symptoms were getting worse.
At first nothing I did helped our allergy symptoms abate.
I was dusting all of the surfaces in our home, sweeping the floors, and vacuuming the carpets at least once each afternoon or more. I figured that doing all of those things would help with the suffering from respiratory and sinus congestion, but none of it did. So then my doctor told me to install an air purification system with a HEPA filter and UV-C bulbs for additional air cleaning. Even doing that didn’t completely remove our symptoms. The air purification system we installed helped more than anything else at that point, but it wasn’t enough. Then our doctor recommended checking our clothing and bedding because it could be aggravating our allergic reactions. I changed the detergent to a better brand and instantly our problems started to go away. I got the same results with every load of laundry and so then I decided that I should rewash everything in our house. The only issue I have now is that our dryer isn’t absolutely doing what it should. It seems that I have to leave the loads in the dryer for hours just to get the fabric bone dry. I asked our HVAC company if they ever handled dryer exhaust vents and they told me they could send someone out the very same afternoon. They use an apparatus that is attached to a power drill. The company did all of their work from outside and they never had to move our dryer to get access or even come inside the lake house either. After he said he was finished, he told me to turn on our dryer for a while and get rid of any additional dust and lint that didn’t come out with the ventilation cleaning. Now that our dryer vent is clean, it takes just a few minutes to get a load of laundry dry.