Air Purifiers Cleaning The Air
The 21st Century has brought us many advances. The progress
industry has been through changed everything around it and the
environment is suffering its effects.
The air is the means of transportation - and consequently, the
means by which microorganisms get spread, more commonly that
ever before. It's pretty easy for an epidemic to get spread
through the air and it's scary, if we take into account what
happened with the Ebola virus some years ago. The whole world
was afraid, even countries at the other side of the globe were
praying for the virus not to get to their territory.
Directly opposite to what many people think, it is not only the
"outside" that offers danger to our overall health. We are not
safe even inside our homes. Believe it or not, a study developed
by environment researchers found that the air inside our homes
is dirtier than the air we breathe when we are walking in the
street.
What are we exposed to?
We are exposed to a lot of danger when we breathe. Asthmatic
people suffer even more than people who don't have any
respiratory disorders. Little children, especially newborn
babies, and old people are the most predisposed to suffer
respiratory disorders due to the bad condition of the air we
breathe.
It's not that hundreds of years ago, the air was safe. No, it
was not. Allergens have always existed. But progress has brought
us industries with their high chimneys spreading smoke, a dark
and heavy smoke, into the air. We have cars that also spread
smoke. These simply create high levels of pollution.
Besides the pollution, we also have the allergens in the air.
And the majority of these are the ones responsible for the
asthma crisis today. The smoke of a cigarette, the pollen from
flowers and the thousands of different smells mixed together may
lead a delicate respiratory system into a serious crisis.
In addition to that, bacteria and viruses as well as other types
of microorganisms are constant threats. Due to these invisible
creatures, people get pneumonia and tuberculosis, diseases that
may lead to death if not treated properly.
How do we protect our loved ones?
Unfortunately, there aren't many things we can do in order to
protect our family or our environment at work. We can't prevent
pollution, allergens or microorganisms from existing in the air
that we breathe and we cannot stop breathing either.
The same hand that pollutes tries to clean. Industries have
developed some air purifiers in order to decrease the effects of
the polluted air we breathe.
Air purifiers simply try to take from the air the allergens and
some of the pollution. It's something we can do to decrease the
effects on our bodies. It is certainly necessary if we have new
babies at home.
Techniques used
There are several techniques available for people who want to
create a safe - or less dangerous - indoor environment with
respect to the air.
Some air purifiers use adsorbent techniques and electrostatic
charges and ionizers. Some others include a germicidal UV light
and the emission of ions into the air in order to react with the
agents that may cause health problems and reduce or eliminate
them. However, there isn't an air purifier sold for homes able
to create indoor conditions as clean as those found in hospitals.
We cannot control what we breathe when we are in the street, but
we can do something to avoid such side effects when we are at
home.