The air on a busy city street can be cleaner than the air in your living room. If you notice that you feel tired, sleepy and lacking concentration in a room, it's because the air is bad.
Indoor air quality
The quality of air in a home is influenced by both the state of the outdoor air and internal factors. Pollutants, together with fresh outdoor air, enter the indoor environment not only through ventilation, but also through the structure of the building (except in passive buildings). In addition, many pollutants are created in our homes due to substances emitted by appliances, artificial materials, furniture, varnishes, sprays, artificial fragrances, chemicals from cleaning and laundry detergents, and in addition, bacteria, viruses, mold, dust, mites and other allergens are also found in the air.
Therefore, the result of indoor pollution can be much worse than on busy city streets, where the main source of pollution is carcinogenic dust particles from traffic, soot and solid fuel residues, and industrial emissions.
Consequences of breathing bad air
Research by the Institute for Public Health shows that the biggest culprit for asthma is traffic and related exhaust gases, especially those living within 75 meters of the road. It has been calculated that more than 10,000 children and adolescents live in such zones, and their risk of developing asthma is 50 percent higher than that of those living 300 meters from a busy road. In our country, 250 children develop asthma every year due to living next to the road. Negative ions are also the only ones that can remove submicrometer particles of carcinogenic soot and exhaust gases from the air in homes (filters cannot do this), which we constantly inhale and accumulate in the lungs, which is why the increase in lung diseases has been increasing in recent years.
In addition to being harmful to the lungs and heart, polluted air can also negatively affect our brains. This is the result of research published by a group of British researchers in one of their publications. The results of their ten-month study, which was conducted with mice in more or less polluted environments, show that contaminated air can affect the health of rodents. In mice that were exposed to polluted air for six or more hours a day, inflammation was discovered in the hippocampus, a part of the brain that is responsible for memory functions. They found that mice that lived in polluted air had impaired memory and learning, anxiety and even depression. Based on the findings, scientists will try to reliably prove that people who live in polluted environments, especially indoors, also experience numerous adverse health effects.
Solution
And how can we improve the air quality in our homes? It's quite simple: we install an air ionizer in the room, which will perform two tasks at once by supplying negative ions into the room:
- It will compensate for the lack of ions, which is typical for closed spaces – in the mountains, near waterfalls, in forests, etc., the concentration of negative ions is between 2000 – 4000 ions per cubic centimeter, while in urban environments the concentration of ions drops to 30 negative and 30 positive ions per cubic centimeter. Energy efficiency trends dictate better sealing of windows and other openings; as a result, less fresh air passes inside and the air becomes stale and more polluted. The only way to prevent this is through ionization – adding negative ions.
- Air purification – removes solid particles from the air such as: cigarette smoke, dust, soot, industrial pollutants, pollen, smog, etc. The removal of such solid particles occurs by binding negative ions to them and then these bound particles fall to the ground, from where they can no longer rise into the air. In this way, the user of the ionizer is safe from inhaling these particles.
Attention: Ozone!
The ionizer must be of high quality and must not emit ozone that is harmful to health, as this causes damage to our respiratory tract. Even a small amount of ozone is harmful in the long run, as ozone accumulates in the room and can exceed the recommended values. Ozone is created when the ionizer uses plasma membranes (where electricity jumps between two poles, which is an example of lightning), metal needles or other metal elements to produce negative ions. The metal reacts with moisture in the air and ozone begins to form from oxygen ions. The only element that does not begin to form ozone is gold and carbon.
That is why the IONEX air ionizer uses a specially designed patented carbon brush, the fruit of Slovenian development, which is completely safe to use and never emits harmful ozone during its long life.ge metal elements. Namely, the metal reacts with moisture in the air and ozone begins to form from oxygen ions. The only element from which ozone does not begin to form is gold and carbon.
In an article published on the show Dan on Planet TV, Ms. Lorena Leonardos explains how to improve indoor air quality and thus ensure that we breathe clean, fresh air enriched with negative ions. Watch the clip below.
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