Air Quality: Take Steps to Improve Your Health

Your health is important. Here are some steps you can take to look after your health by paying attention to indoor air quality.

More and more people who are concerned about their health and staying healthy - paying close attention to indoor air quality. Why? Because people may experience negative health effects from indoor air pollutants soon after exposure or possibly even years later.

Air conditioning is able to prevent or reduce some of these health effects. Air conditioning is more than temperature control. It is also about humidity control, ventilation and filtration - which can have positive effects on your health.

The way houses and buildings are constructed to conserve energy has reduced the natural ventilation of fresh air, which, in the worst case, results in sick building syndrome.

When you stop ventilation of the house, you'll reduce the energy required to heat and cool the house. But this means also that humidity levels are maintained within the house by re-circulating the same air and pollutants day after day.

Dust, smoke, bacteria, viruses, mould, fungus, mildew and gasses circulate through the house. The dust comes from the skin, hair, clothes or just comes off shoes when we walk in and out. The mildew, fungus and moulds can come in along with the dust.

Gasses can be caused by dyes, paints, varnishes and adhesives.

Prevention of the flu virus is just as important. Research has shown that humidity levels of at least 50% greatly reduces the survival rate of the influenza virus.

What  solutions help to lower the concentration of indoor air pollutants?  Ventilation, filters and humidity control - which you will find in all good air conditioning systems. In fact, every air conditioning unit has a filter.

The type of filtration system needed depends on the type of system. A system with integrated ventilation requires a less effective filter. The efficiency of a filter is measured in the percentage of particles stopped.

So, by installing an air conditioning system that filters the air, controls humidity and enables ventilation - you will be taking positive steps to protect your health today and into the future.

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