Clear chemicals as far as you can out of your immediate environment, especially at home, for as long a period as you are able – for at least a week and for up to two or three weeks if you can. It can take up to a few weeks sometimes for fumes to disperse and symptoms to clear, so give it time.
Remember that you may get withdrawal symptoms and may feel worse or different at first, especially if you are very sensitive to something. A teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate in a glass of water (not more than three times a day) will help relieve these. Paracetamol, in preference to aspirin, will relieve any pain.
If you can start the programme with a few days spent mainly at home, it works best. You can, of course, still go out and about, but it helps to be mainly where you have control over things. So start it over a weekend or public holiday; for a child, during school holidays or at half-term; or take time off work. Pretend to yourself that you have gone to a health farm, if you like.
The programme also works better if you get good co-operation from the people you live with, work with or from school or nursery. If they can co-operate – just a bit, if not totally – and try to limit their use of things like fragrances, toiletries, cleaning products, DIY materials, glues, paints, etc., it helps a lot. If there have been, or still are, smokers in your home, you would be best to clear out smoke residues before you go much further. If you are going to have to cope while still living with smokers, then it is still worth doing the programme, although results may be a bit clouded.
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