Health safety following a flood

Cleaning after flooding can be a health hazard. You and your family should wait to return together, while professionals tell you they are safe without structural, electrical or other typhoid risks.


Before starting cleaning, contact your insurance company and take pictures of your home and property. Do not forget to dry the house and eliminate damaged material. Water is the most important step to avoid mold damage.

If your home is flooded without drying your home (included in the furniture and other items) IS A 24-48 hour terminal, UME to assume that UME increased. You can see or perfume the form of clothes, plaster, furniture, cardboard boxes or books. You can also hide under or behind objects such as blankets, pillows or walls.

Exposure to a substance can lead to attacks of asthma, eye irritation, skin and allergic reactions. Such infections may cause GREUS to people with an immune system damaged, so it is important to make sure they are done before cleaning before getting home.

Keep in mind Since standardized home insurance usually causes damages caused by MOLDS, Bacterial fungus, the exclusions of which it is not due to the coverage RISC such as this TBI expl.

To obtain more information, download the owner of Housing Housing From the tenant to clean the Disaster Matrix Created CDC paper first Coalition of federal agencies.



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