| COPD also known as Chronic Obstructive | | | | air-purifier do is make your life easier and better. |
| Pulmonary Disease is a progressive lung disease. | | | | How? |
| People affected by COPD have the airways to | | | | By filtering out triggers like pollutants or second |
| the lungs partly blocked. These airways are tiny | | | | -hand smoke. The technology for filters has |
| tubes which are responsible for circulating air in | | | | advanced over the years. You have sophisticated |
| and out of lungs. Any kind of blockage in those | | | | air filters in the market which cater specifically to |
| airways makes breathing very painful. The | | | | COPD affected people. The filters work by |
| blockage can even worsen over a period of time. | | | | filtering particles as tiny as.03 microns and even.01 |
| Chronic bronchitis and Emphysema often occur | | | | microns. The boast of efficiency as high as 99.7% |
| together and fall under the COPD category. | | | | which can be very helpful. Air purifiers in areas |
| Despite being the fourth leading cause of death in | | | | where there is too much smoke or pollutants like |
| USA, people don't even realize they suffer from | | | | dust, pollen can help head off COPD before the |
| it. They attribute their breathlessness to various | | | | onset itself. |
| factors like being around smokers, dust, etc. | | | | When it comes to children and babies air-filters |
| COPD does affect smokers but general | | | | play a major role too. The development of a |
| awareness about it is low and people don't realize | | | | baby is in different stages and the lungs are the |
| that even non-smokers can get afflicted by it. | | | | last organs to develop. If a baby is exposed to |
| COPD can be caused by genetic influence, | | | | smoke or pollutants then lungs airways get |
| second-hand smoke, a history of cold and | | | | doomed right from the start. It would rob the kid |
| respiratory infections in childhood or even | | | | of a healthy and fun-filled childhood. So it is always |
| pollutants in the air. | | | | recommended that a kid gets a chance to |
| How will an air-purifier help? | | | | breathe clean air if it's a known fact that they |
| Well an air-purifier cannot cure people affected by | | | | would be around smoke or pollutants like dust |
| COPD. Once you are affected by COPD all an | | | | particles. |