| More and more people are now becoming aware | | | | smaller room air purifier is purchased. |
| of the fact that the air inside your room, your | | | | A nice alternative would be an ionic air purifier or |
| house, or indeed any building, can be and generally | | | | ionizer since this produces a stream of negatively |
| is far more polluted than the air outside. Of | | | | charged ions that have been scientifically proven |
| course if you're living in the open countryside, it | | | | to uplift the atmosphere, similar to the experience |
| will not come as a surprise that the air inside may | | | | of breathing air beside a waterfall or a similar |
| be up to 10 times more polluted than the outside | | | | uplifting natural outdoor environment. They work |
| air. If you're living in a town however, you may | | | | by producing a stream of negative ions that |
| tend to think that the air quality outside is just as | | | | combine with particles in the air causing them to |
| bad - but that is probably not the case. Although | | | | gain weight and dropped to the ground where |
| people may give lip service to considering this, | | | | they may be vacuum cleaned. Of course as one |
| very few people actually act. That's quite | | | | moves around the room, the dust gets stirred up |
| surprising if you think that we mostly are aware | | | | again and so one will need to vacuum clean the |
| and take great care to ensure that the foods and | | | | room frequently for this method to be effective. |
| drinks that enter our body are good, beneficial | | | | The UV air purifier certainly a very interesting |
| and nutritious, as opposed to dirty, detrimental | | | | alternative air purifier and well worth considering. |
| and odorous. What is more, since air is the most | | | | Air is drawn to ultraviolet light which naturally |
| fundamental requirement for life, it is fairly clear | | | | sterilizes the air of harmful particulates. Claims |
| logic that the cleaner or dirtier the air that one | | | | have even been made that it eradicates Bird flu |
| breathes is, so our health and well-being will be | | | | viruses and the like. |
| proportionately. Again this is important proportional | | | | There are also other air purifiers such as the |
| to the amount of time we spend indoors. | | | | electrostatic air cleaner, and the ozone air purifier, |
| So it is very good news that there are a variety | | | | and indeed new types of their purifiers are |
| of air purifiers readily available to help raise the | | | | coming available fairly frequently. I would quickly |
| indoor air quality (IAQ) of our living environment. | | | | add a word of caution concerning the ozone air |
| However these different types of air cleaners | | | | cleaners as the controversy over their use of a |
| operate in totally different ways, having their own | | | | potentially dangerous gas, ozone, is frequently |
| various advantages and drawbacks. For instance, | | | | frowned upon. |
| one that I would not hesitate to recommend is a | | | | Some of the most effective air purifiers are what |
| HEPA air purifier. This has a very effective filter | | | | are termed hybrid purifiers that combine two or |
| unit through which air is drawn and most particles | | | | more of these types of air purification. A |
| are removed. If you suffer from allergies perhaps | | | | particularly effective hybrid would combine a Hepa |
| cat dander, hayfever and the like, this may well | | | | air filter with ultraviolet light sterilization as well as |
| prove to be very effective in cleaning the | | | | providing an ionic air purifying stream of healthy |
| particles that you are allergic to out of the air. It | | | | negatively charged ions. Their disadvantages - |
| could also be incorporated within a ventilation or | | | | they tend to be more expensive as you would |
| air-conditioning central system to provide whole | | | | expect. It is beyond the scope of this article to |
| house filtration. However, the filter will need | | | | go into greater depth on the individual types of air |
| cleaning and/or replacing as it gets dirty, odors | | | | purifiers I have mentioned, but I have written and |
| are not removed, and an electric fan is | | | | will continue to write further articles to elucidate |
| incorporated within the apparatus which may | | | | their functions. |
| cause a certain amount of noise, particularly if a | | | | |