How To Fight Bed Bugs

In this record I'm going to focus on fire extinguishers and the assorted types. You should already have a fire extinguisher in your home, but if you're making ready for a major disaster, it's a good idea to get a few extras.

Fire needs fuel and oxygen to burn. Simply put, fire extinguishers either cool the burning fuel or displace the surrounding oxygen. There are four types of fire extinguishers, each for a different type of fire. There is also a numerical rating that indicates how much fire the extinguisher is able to handle (the higher the number, the more it can handle). Here are the four types:

• Class A. These are for common materials such as paper, cardboard, wood, and trash. The numerical rating indicates the estimate of water it contains.
• Class B. These are for combustible liquids such as gasoline, grease and oil. The numerical rating indicates how many quadrate feet of fire it can handle.
• Class C. These are for anyone electrical such as appliances, wires, outlets and circuit breakers. Never use water for these types of fires because you could get an galvanic shock.
• Class D. These are generally for combustible metals such as magnesium, potassium and sodium. They are generally kept in chemical laboratories and are only designed for class D fires.

When choosing a fire extinguisher, make sure it has an Abc rating. The presume is because you don't want to accidentally use the wrong type of extinguishers. For example, a class A extinguisher should never be used on a grease fires as it will only spread the fire. Abc types have monoammonium phosphate, a yellow powder that will put out any fire (unless, of course, you're working in a chemical laboratory). Note: it leaves a sticky residue that can damage electrical equipment, especially computers.

After purchasing a fire extinguisher, take time to read the instructions. You won't have time to read them if your house is burning down! A good way to remember how to use one is with the acronym P-A-S-S.

Pull the pin.
Aim at the base of the fire.
Squeeze the lever slowly.
Sweep from side to side.

Always aim at the base! That is where the fire is getting its fuel. Aiming at the flames won't help. Also, enounce a safe distance and don't move toward the fire until it's almost dead. Afterward, be sure to wait for a while to make sure the fire doesn't start up again.

Be sure to put your fire extinguisher somewhere it is easy to get to. If it's in your bedroom closet, it's not going to do much good if your bed is on fire! The most common places where fires start are the kitchen and the garage, so keep one in both places. Finally, make sure you gawk your fire extinguisher monthly to make sure it's still pressurized.

Before fighting a fire, ask yourself if it's worth fighting. If an entire room is engulfed in flames, a single fire extinguisher won't be able to stop it. And if it's spreading quickly, it might soon be too much for your extinguisher to handle. Also, if the room is filled with too much smoke, it might be too dangerous. 7 out of 10 fire-related deaths are from inhaling poisonous smoke. If any of these things are the case, you should get your family, grab your bug out bag, and run!

If you do fight the fire, keep your back to the exit, enounce a safe distance, use sweeping motions, and watch the area to make sure it doesn't reignite.

Hopefully you'll never have to use a fire extinguisher, but it's leading to be prepared.

Foods that enhance your immune system's capability to keep you salutary are: (I'll bet you guessed!) fruits, nuts and vegetables, raw garlic and omega three oils.
Eat lots of these and your immune system will have the tools it needs to fight the colds and flu you are exposed to this year.

Foods that sacrifice your immune system's capability to keep you salutary and may growth your chances of getting the latest bug are sugar and white four, in any form. Many citizen know sugar is bad for us, but did you know that white flour has basically the same effect on your body's capability to fight the germs that cause illness. Foods made with these bleached products taste great, but lower your body's capability to fight off the every day exposure to illness.

With Halloween advent up, it may be difficult to avoid eating a few candies. So, if you indulge and feel the flu advent on, take a few of these immune system boosters and get your immune system right back into tip-top shape. Start with mom's advice and take vitamin C. If your illness is caused by too much white sugar, the white sugar is competitive with vitamin C for absorption into your cells. Taking vitamin C "to bowel tolerance" helps the absorption of C into your body.

My second favorite formula of avoiding illness is eating raw garlic. You can just chew it up or go to my website www.ShoppersGuidetoHealthyLiving.com [http://www.ShoppersGuidetoHealthyLiving.com], click on salutary Hint and then click on garlic in the lower right angle for other fun ways to eat garlic. It is an astounding immune system booster. Very often, these first two methods will forestall the cold or flu from ever taking hold. If you do authentically get sick, just load up on echinacea, elderberry, goldenseal, vitamins Ace & zinc (there is authentically a pill called just that - Ace & zinc) selenium, wild cherry bark and horseradish root. You can also drink teas made of chamomile, peppermint, ginger, thyme and cinnamon. Cayenne pepper can be added to the soup of your selection to break up congestion.

We often use peppermint oil (don't drink it!) in a bowl of steaming water for the ill someone to breathe in and then rub more peppermint oil on their chest before going to bed at night. It kills germs, opens the airway and helps the private breathe more easily.

Use these methods along with the age old advise of washing your hands, exercise, cover your mouth, get fullness of rest and sacrifice your stress levels and you may feel best this year without a flu shot than you ever have before.

Of course, if you have a compromised immune system, you should consult your condition practitioner before changing your routine.