With an increased awareness and rising health effects of air pollution, most of us think of buying an air purifier for our homes and offices. We often come across words like UV Air filtration, HEPA filers and Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation or UVGI when we start looking for or ask about air purifiers. However, most of the people do not understand the technicalities but, often wonder about the effectiveness of these devices so, let’s try and understand: How effective and useful air purifiers are?
Most air purifiers come with monitors that show the levels of particulate matter coming inside a room. We understand that all good air purifiers are designed to reduce or eliminate impurities from the air, but we do not know how these appliances aid in improving the overall health directly. The exception to this argument is in the cases of certain specific diseases such as asthma, dust allergies and respiratory conditions.
Most of the studies have documented an opinion of improvement in the quality of air rather than any direct health benefits. Although, according to scientists, improved quality of air is an indication of improvement in the overall health. Thus, the direct health benefits are quite difficult to notice but yes, there are indirect health benefits associated with cleaner and purified air as result of using an air purifier or an ultraviolet germicidal irradiation uvgi.
Apart from being good for health even if they support health indirectly, these appliances have number of other benefits which will make you get one for your space immediately:
– They are highly and directly helpful for people with asthma and breathing problems. An only best remedy for the asthmatic patients is, having purified and clean air to breathe.
– The appliances purify the air by eliminating microns of 0.3 or larger making the air around us 99.9% dust free.
– Have a smoker at home? These appliances can actually save you from passive smoking by eliminating the smell of smoke by sucking up the second hand tobacco smoke.
– They work on making the air free from allergy triggering particles making them effective for people with dust allergies.
– They are also highly effective on eradicating all kinds of odors from the air like medicinal smells, cooking smells and even those nasty pet odors.
– These appliances enhance the life of your furnishings which is wrecked by the dust particles making them easy to maintain.
So, with good number of benefits, they are surely a good deal to invest upon.
