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Indoor Air Pollution †Why You Need An Air Purifier

By: Fit Gizmos Home | Health-and-Fitness


In these tough economic times an air purifier may seem like a luxury expenditure, but consider this truth about indoor air pollution. Pollen and pet dander may make you sniffle and sneeze, but it is the doctor's bills that will really make you cry.

Even if you have the very best health insurance, you can still be in for a shock when you go to the doctor for allergy treatment. Your insurance can still, even after recent legislation, classify allergies as a preexisting condition and deny you any coverage at all. Some companies will classify hay fever, sinusitis, and nasal allergies as a "cosmetic problem." That is another way of keeping you from getting any coverage at all.

And even if your insurance company will cover treatment, they may not cover testing. You may have to pay $300 to $500 for blood testing and up to $2,000 for scratch testing. That's a big dent in most family budgets.

So what can you do? You can take a lot of antihistamines and sleep all day. You can go to Costco and fill up a station wagon with tissue. Or maybe the answer is a best-rated air purifier.

Air purifiers are not a hard sell. You don't need to review reams and reams of information to know whether you should buy a home air purifier. If you sniffle and sneeze inside the house, you need one. Here are three ways air purifiers can make your life easier and save your budget, too.

1. A best-rated air purifier can suck allergy-inducing substances right out of the air. It won't do your dusting for you, but it will get rid of those tiny, invisible allergens that float in indoor air like a fog, such as cat dander.

2. A best-rated air purifier will help you deal with effects of second-hand tobacco smoke. Every doctor on the planet is going to tell you that cigarettes are bad for you, but the simple truth is, most smokers aren't going to quit. An air purifier can remove the harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke out of indoor make your whole home safer for the entire family.

3. Help you deal with outdoor pollutants that get trapped inside your home. Did you know that the particulates, sulfur compounds, and ozone that trigger air pollution warnings outside all get trapped inside? Or that they can build up to a concentration 2 to 5 times higher inside your house?

That's because buildings lock in pollution where your air conditioning system can't recycle it away. And there are many reasons you can't open your windows all dayâ€"and all nightâ€"to get rid of indoor pollution without the highest-quality HEPA home air filtration unit.



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