How Does Indoor Air Quality Affect Your Home?
While dirty air in the home can be annoying, poor indoor air quality can also affect everyone's health in fairly significant ways. Good indoor air quality is so important, and it isn’t all that difficult to obtain. There are several health symptoms that can indicate an air quality issue at home and warrant a call to a local HVAC professional to see if they can be quickly and safely resolved.
Poor Indoor Air Quality Can Lead to Dryness and Irritation
One of the most common symptoms of having bad indoor air quality is also one of the most subtle. Dry, itchy eyes, dry nasal passages, dry throat, and dry skin can all be attributed to a lack of moisture in the air or an abundance of allergens and other particulate matter.While generally irritating, over time, these symptoms can actually turn into more dangerous health conditions like migraines, chronic dry eyes, or worsening allergy and asthma issues.
To counteract dryness in the home due to poor indoor air quality, homeowners can use either a full home humidifier or purchase them for each individual room. These machines add moisture to the air, which can naturally stop dryness and irritation.
Coughing and Sneezing Can Also Be a Sign of Poor Indoor Air Quality
If dryness and irritation are allowed to continue for long periods of time, the side effects of poor indoor air quality can turn into chronic issues with coughing and sneezing.
In addition to simply being irritating, coughing and sneezing can also spread germs around the home. This can lead to more frequent colds, flu, and other illnesses that can impact the health of everyone in the house. With more and more new viruses become problematic across the globe, being able to stop them before they become a problem is essential and even potentially life-saving.
An air purifier can help counteract these issues by increasing the indoor air quality and helping to filter out all of the things that can cause frequent coughing and sneezing to occur. UV light sanitizers are also helpful at stopping the spread of germs in the home.
Sinus Sensitivity May Be Caused by Poor Indoor Air Quality
One last way that poor indoor air quality can affect everyone’s health is by causing sinus sensitivity. So many problems can be tied to increased sinus sensitivity - issues like congestion, difficulty breathing, wheezing, and an increase in allergy and asthma symptoms.In worse case scenarios, sinus sensitivity can lead to emergency health consequences. The good news is that improving indoor air quality can very quickly also improve symptoms and overall health.
Simply having an HVAC technician evaluate the home and install an air purifier can cause an immediate positive change in the air in the home. Another way to help is by using HEPA filters in the HVAC system if that is an option. They can filter out a significant amount of allergens from the air, which can improve indoor air quality and also reduce sinus sensitivity.
About LenAire, Inc.
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