Poor air quality can impact your health. It can cause eye, nose, and throat irritation, headaches, dizziness, fatigue, and respiratory diseases, and can even worsen chronic conditions like heart disease and cancer. Clean air positively impacts quality of life, so it’s important to keep the air in your home as clean as possible.
“People spend more than 90% of their time indoors, and indoor air can be two to five times more polluted than outdoor air,” says Kenneth Mendez, president and CEO of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA). One of the main factors contributing to poor indoor air quality is dust. “Dust in your home is mostly made up of human debris (skin cells, hair, and “other”),” says Mendez. He says indoor air irritants typically come from dirt, pollen, animal dander, mold spores, microplastics, and fibers.
Seemingly innocuous films of settled dust can become airborne during cleaning or after a gust of window enters a room. But dust, dust mites, and their droppings can quickly end up on your clothes or in your lungs. An air purifier can help remove dust from your home and avoid dust-related irritation.
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