5 of The Best Tips to Clean House After Sickness

Having a clean house after sickness can sometimes seem impossible. Follow these 5 cleaning tips to clean and disinfect your home effectively and efficiently. Being sick is absolutely miserable, and worrying about all the things you need to do while recovering can be very stressful. Take the stress out of cleaning your home and just use this cleaning routine as a guide to disinfect it all. The post has links to additional cleaning tips and cleaning products to make your life easier during the process as well. Some of these cleaning products are my favorites and definitely my go-tos when it comes to cleaning after illness. This post is all about a clean house after sickness.

I don’t know about you, but the stress of the to-do list gives me so much anxiety when I am sick. It is hard for to me think of anything else when I am not feeling well. When sick, I just try my best to keep my head above water, and at times, that can be a real struggle. Just like all moms out there, when I am sick, my kids still need to be cared for and my job still needs to be done. These are tasks that no matter how I feel will never end. This doesn’t make recovering any easier, and that is why I just dread the sign of a sniffle!

Nonetheless, it is reassuring that if I follow these five cleaning tips, my home will be restored once I am well. That definitely makes me feel better. I know that cleaning and disinfecting your home can be exhausting. Then, throw an illness into the mix, and it can become quite the chore.

I hope that once you go through these cleaning tasks, you feel confident that your home is clean. These cleaning processes and products will truly disinfect your home.

Of course, I hope that you never have to refer to this list and that you and your family stay well all year long!

This post is all about a clean house after sickness.

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Clean House After Sickness

How do I clean my house after being sick? How do you get germs out of your house? Where do I start when cleaning? If these are some of your questions, don’t worry, these tips will work for you. Take care and stress less as you go through these cleaning steps.

Tip 1: Deep Clean the Bathroom

Using Clorox wipes and bleach spray, deep clean the bathroom first. Starting with the sink, spray the sink with a bleach spray, and wipe down the countertops with disinfecting wipes. Also, you can use this Windex disinfecting spray to not only clean your mirror, but to remove the germs as well. It really does work well on glass.

Then, scrub your shower with a bleach cleaner. I like to use this Comet cleanser and a sponge when cleaning the tub after illness. Then, I let it sit and spray it all off for a deep clean.

Also, once you clean your tub, you can check out this post to make a DIY daily shower cleaner to maintain your clean bathroom.

The Pine Sol daily shower cleaner smells great and maintains your shower, too. You can just spray it after each shower. The scent alone makes you feel better about the cleanliness of your bathroom.

Tip 2: Wash Bedding and Clothing in Hot Water

Once you have the bathroom cleaned, move onto the bedding and dirty clothes. Run these through the hot water cycle while you clean the rest of your home.

Washing your bedding and clothes in hot water is going to ensure that all germs are removed. There is nothing better than crawling into a clean bed once you are well. Plus, you can clean your jammies and loungewear in hot water too. Of course, if they are red, be sure to wash them separately.

According to an article from The New York Times, Dr. Sowa recommended she would err on the side of caution when it came to washing certain items, like dish towels, the clothes of family members with infections and hospital scrubs, by using water heated to 140 degrees.

For more on washing bedding, follow this post to go above and beyond when cleaning your bedding. The post lets you know how often to wash your sheets and how to clean your mattress too.

Clean House After Sickness

Tip 3: Disinfect All High Touch Surfaces

Then, using disinfecting wipes and a multi-surface disinfectant spray, clean all high touch surfaces. You can use the following printable to guide your way to disinfect these high touch areas.

Plus, don’t forget to wipe down your screens, remotes, and keyboards too. These are probably the most forgotten high touch surfaces. Just the thought of the germs on my phone grosses me out!

This multi-surface disinfectant spray is great for furniture and throw pillows too. I love the smell of Tide, and this antibacterial spray smells so clean and fresh.

Clean House After Sickness

Tip 4: Mop Floors with Pine Sol

Then, to ensure that your home is really really clean, mop your floors with a little Pine Sol.

According to Pine Sol’s site, it disinfects and kills 99.9% of germs. As a Pine Sol fan, I really do believe that it works, and it disinfects your home. It is also great on most surfaces, which makes it an easy choice when cleaning.

I just put a little of the cleaner in my Bissell mop to ensure clean floors and a disinfected home. I love this Bissell Spinwave mop too!

Your home will smell amazing after you mop with Pine Sol. I just love that smell!