Humidity can affect asthma and allergies. If your home is too humid, dust mites and mold can thrive. But if the air in your home is too dry, it can cause dry skin and aggravate your nasal passages.

Humidifiers can be used in winter months to add moisture to dry air. Air conditioners and dehumidifiers can be used in summer months to remove moisture from humid air. Your geographic location’s needs may vary.

CERTIFIED asthma & allergy friendly® humidifiers can help you keep the humidity in your home at a healthy level. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends indoor relative humidity to be kept between 35 to 50 percent.

For a humidifier to be CERTIFIED, it must meet the following standards:

• It must be able to achieve and maintain humidity levels without a large increase in small particles in the air.
• It must be able to sanitize the water during use, without adding disinfectant. When the sanitizing procedure is tested with a water source contaminated by bacteria and fungus, it must reduce the fungus and bacteria levels by 99%.
• If there is allergen and fungus already in a room, we check that the levels of allergen in the air in a room do not increase when the humidifier is used.