2Make your home irritants-free
As a patient diagnosed with COPD, the second step you take to reduce the severity of the symptoms and manage the disease is making your home free of lungs irritants like paints, pesticides, sprays, dust, cologne, chemical cleaning products, smoke from bleaching oil, etc. All these lungs’ irritants only worsen COPD. You can as well increase ventilation and improve air quality in the house by always leaving the windows opened and using an air filtration system. Doing this will go a long way to decrease COPD progression. Beds and pillow covers should be changed and washed regularly to reduce dust accumulation and make sure to keep your home vacuumed always. You would not want to have dust building up. [2]
