It is also estimated that with the air pollution, 40-50 million Americans now suffer from air related allergies and 17 million battle asthma, many times causing important health issues and expenditure.
The typical american home, or any home in the world, enables germs, fungi,virus and bacteria to grow within the confines of its 4 walls. If inhaled into the lungs, germs can cause cold, flu, pneumonia and other respiratory infections...and all these are related to the air quality we breathe in daily.
If we care for our health, these findings and research results is a great concern to us, firstly those in America and then internationally.
As outdoors are quickly getting more inconvenient for the busy worker to find time to breathe in fresh air, it becomes very important for the typical american to take steps to ensure the air he and his family breathe in at home is clean and free from pollutants to the highest degree.
And that way is to have the use of a powerful air purifier that can allow a room of 30X30 ft to be cleansed thorougly within an hour so that we can breathe in fresh pristine air, right in the comfort of our own homes.
This is the work of the Oreck Air Purifier...the hallmark of quality and dependability. Like the matured horse, the Oreck Air Purifier brand has stood the tests of time and quality. Imagine, their Oreck xl Air Professional Purifier comes with a 12 year guarantee and there are rave reviews of immense satisfaction and acclaim for this air purifier that is accessible for reading and checking on record.
Now, when we next step into the comfort of our own homes, we must not be mulled by a false sense of comfort, and forgetting the fact that the air indoors is 5 times more polluted than that outside!
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Sunday, 2 August 2009
Allergy Air Purifier - 7 Features to Choose For an Effective Allergy Air Purifier
If you have allergy, regardless of the pollutants that trigger a reaction, an allergy air purifier will effectively help you manage your allergy indoors. Choosing these 7 features will insure that you have a cleaner that will really make a difference in your indoor air quality and quality of life.
1. Removes Your Triggers
This seems like a point that doesn't need to be made, but think about it for a moment. If your allergy is triggered by smoke, and you choose a cleaner (unknowingly) that is not effective with smoke, you have wasted your money. Be sure to check the list of pollutants that the purifier is effective in removing, and make sure that list matches the allergens you want to remove.
2. Sub-micron Size Filter
Pollutants come in all sizes. In terms of microns, here are a few examples-animal dander (approximately 2.5), pollen (10-100), spores (10-30), bacteria (.3-30). So choosing a filter that is able to remove pollutants smaller than a micron means it will be able to remove your airborne triggers effectively.
3. Steel Housing
This is an important feature to choose for several reasons. Many plastic air purifiers off-gas harmful fumes as a by-product once the motor heats it up. Steel housing helps insure that only fresh clean air is produced as a by-product. And secondly, choosing steel housing means that it would be almost impossible for a baby or pet to break or chew off small pieces of the cleaner that could cause choking or worse.
4. Powder Coat Finish
An air purifier with a baked on powder coat finish that is free of harmful chemicals such as lead and zinc insures that your air purifier is safe for babies and pets that might lick it.
5. Consumer and Environmentally Safe Raw Products
The United States government imposes very high quality standards in terms of materials used in the manufacturing of all products-including air purifiers. Choosing a purifier that is made in the United States is more likely to insure that it is made of materials that are safe for the consumer and the environment. There are certainly very fine air purifiers produced in countries other than the US, just be sure to research the paint composition, motor capacity, and composition of the housing before making a decision.
6. Is a HEPA
HEPA is an acronym for High Efficiency Particle Arresting. By definition it eliminates airborne pollutants that are .3 microns or greater with 99.97% efficiency. This means that if there are 10,000 allergy triggers suspended in your air, 99,997 will be removed.
7. Variable Speed Control
Having this feature allows you to quickly reduce airborne pollutants when life happens, such as a visitor that smokes, or pollutants that your dog sends airborne after an ambitious walk outdoors during pollen season. Being able to reduce triggers quickly by using the high setting, or maintaining a good air quality on low means more flexibility and control for you and your allergy.
1. Removes Your Triggers
This seems like a point that doesn't need to be made, but think about it for a moment. If your allergy is triggered by smoke, and you choose a cleaner (unknowingly) that is not effective with smoke, you have wasted your money. Be sure to check the list of pollutants that the purifier is effective in removing, and make sure that list matches the allergens you want to remove.
2. Sub-micron Size Filter
Pollutants come in all sizes. In terms of microns, here are a few examples-animal dander (approximately 2.5), pollen (10-100), spores (10-30), bacteria (.3-30). So choosing a filter that is able to remove pollutants smaller than a micron means it will be able to remove your airborne triggers effectively.
3. Steel Housing
This is an important feature to choose for several reasons. Many plastic air purifiers off-gas harmful fumes as a by-product once the motor heats it up. Steel housing helps insure that only fresh clean air is produced as a by-product. And secondly, choosing steel housing means that it would be almost impossible for a baby or pet to break or chew off small pieces of the cleaner that could cause choking or worse.
4. Powder Coat Finish
An air purifier with a baked on powder coat finish that is free of harmful chemicals such as lead and zinc insures that your air purifier is safe for babies and pets that might lick it.
5. Consumer and Environmentally Safe Raw Products
The United States government imposes very high quality standards in terms of materials used in the manufacturing of all products-including air purifiers. Choosing a purifier that is made in the United States is more likely to insure that it is made of materials that are safe for the consumer and the environment. There are certainly very fine air purifiers produced in countries other than the US, just be sure to research the paint composition, motor capacity, and composition of the housing before making a decision.
6. Is a HEPA
HEPA is an acronym for High Efficiency Particle Arresting. By definition it eliminates airborne pollutants that are .3 microns or greater with 99.97% efficiency. This means that if there are 10,000 allergy triggers suspended in your air, 99,997 will be removed.
7. Variable Speed Control
Having this feature allows you to quickly reduce airborne pollutants when life happens, such as a visitor that smokes, or pollutants that your dog sends airborne after an ambitious walk outdoors during pollen season. Being able to reduce triggers quickly by using the high setting, or maintaining a good air quality on low means more flexibility and control for you and your allergy.
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