How to Help Your Asthmatic Child at School
Parents who keep the air clean at home often find great frustration in resolving air quality issues in schools, especially schools in older buildings, in manufacturing towns and in inner cities. Asthma, which has doubled since the 1990s, is the leading cause of school absenteeism and hospital admittance for kids. What can you do?
If your child is well at home, but gets sick at school and you are concerned it's an environmental issue, here are 3 areas to explore:
- Old buildings. These can emit particles from lead-based paints, crumbling masonry, areas that haven't been cleaned in years, and hidden mold. Poor ventilation is often present, and sometimes water leaks and pet infestation.
- Chemicals. Pesticides, toxic fumes from harsh chemicals, volatile organic compounds, fragrances, cleaning solutions, etc can be bad on their own, but the combination of all of these chemicals can send a child into an asthma attack quickly.
- Particulates. Old furniture and carpeting, soot, animal dander from classroom pets, paper dust, clothing fibers, even skin cells; classrooms can be loaded with particulate that irritates the tender airways of children.
ClearFlite customers have approached the problem in many different ways over the years. Some purchase air purifiers for their child's classroom, which works for younger children who stay in one classroom. It is more difficult with middle and high school age kids who move from class to class. For college students, an air purifier is often a dorm necessity. Many parents have tried to work with the school to have filtration systems put in the HVAC and to change methods and cleaning products in the school. In some cases, groups of teachers, or groups of parents have combined resources to buy air purifiers. ClearFlite Air Purifiers always give discounts to schools and accepts purchase orders from schools.
With 14 years experience in selling air purifiers online, we can help you select an air purifier for your home or school. We'll tell you which technology, which size, where to place it, when to run it, and more.
Generally Austin Air Purifiers are great for schools because they require almost no maintenance and have large, long lasting filters. www.airpurifiers.com/products/austin-air/
We stand behind these Austin Air units for schools. If they don't work, the school can return the unit in 30 days for a full refund, no questions asked.
If you can get the attention of school officials to remedy the problems in one or more of these areas, you will be of great service, not only to your own child, but to all of the children and staff. If not, then an air purifier will certainly help.
The Austin Air purifiers we recommend, particularly the Plus models will address the full range of toxins.
A small classroom 300 square feet or less would be well served by an Austin HM-200 Plus (Junior Plus):
www.airpurifiers.com/products/austin-air/healthmate-jr-plus.htm
A larger classroom under 1000 square feet would be well served by the HM-400 Plus:
www.airpurifiers.com/products/austin-air/healthmate-plus.htm
