Air Purifier and Clean Air
Although some people begin their search for a home air purifier, simply because they're interested in all around health, the vast majority have received some kind of bad news from a health care provider, thus they're on an urgent mission to find air purifiers that will address their concerns quickly. This is particularly true of parents whose children have been diagnosed with asthma, allergies, multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) or some other respiratory-related condition.
A quality air purifier can indeed provide immediate relief, particularly in the bedroom, because most allergy and asthma attacks happen during sleeping hours, when the human respiratory system has slowed down. However, the use of a quality air purifiers in the bedroom and in other key rooms of the house is but one item in your chest of indoor air cleaning tools.
Cleaning up just about any problem, begins with finding out the truth about the source of the problem, and creating a long term solution, which combined with short-term ones, will either alleviate the problem or make it easier to live with. Cleaning your indoor air is no different. Before you even buy an air purifier, you should do some initial study, however short, to determine the source of the pollution that is creating or compounding the problem. Then after you have an air purifier in place to provide some immediate relief, take a deeper look.
In some cases, the source is easy to determine, smoke for example, from tobacco smoking, woodstoves, and/or the burning of candles or incense. In other cases, such as hidden mold, or out-gassing from building materials, it may be more difficult and require more study. When smoke and the byproducts of burning things is the issue, it's important to choose an air purifier that is designed to remove it, and has enough capacity in activated carbon or other media, to hold a lot of smoke debris. Air purifier products vary quite a lot in the types of particles, gases and odors that they're designed to handle.
The larger point, however, is that cleaning indoor air is a comprehensive issue, and unless the air purifier within a few days, totally solves your problem, you may need to consider various aspects of your home and lifestyle. Seeking and locating the source of all your indoor air pollution, removing what's removable, and diminishing the rest, is your best bet in creating a healthy indoor environment for you and your family. An air purifier will help, but actually removing the mold in your basement and eliminating the moisture that causes it, eliminating devices and items that produce smoke, and carefully choosing unscented cleaning products that don't have toxins in them, are basic actions that will go a long way toward making your environment more breathable.
It is also important to consider your air conditioning and heating system. Proper maintenance of these, and the addition of air filters to them when possible, will also help reduce indoor pollutants. An annual check of your duct lining and duct cleaning are also helpful in making sure the air coming into your house is relatively clean. In fact, the proper maintenance of these items is the most important factor in controlling the growth of mold. ClearFlite carries high quality air purifier models that will remove airborne mold spores, but if there is an ongoing source producing a lot of mold, your filters will fill up faster than you want. Using an air purifier in key rooms, and keeping your systems operating at their best is the most sensible and cost-effective solution.
