But are we jumping from the allergy frying pan into the fire?
You might be if your air conditioner isn't clean!
It's amazing at how some of the simplest things can cause the biggest problems. But fortunately, the simple things are simple to fix.
So if yourre suffering from terrible allergies, and you haven't cleaned your air conditioning filter lately, the answer to your health problems might be quite an easy one: clean the filter!
Take Alisa Adler Landau for example: she is really suffering from her allergies, especially this year. So she has a simple solution. "Staying indoors with air conditioning is the best. I just have it on all the time I never shut it off,"says Alisa.
And that's the right idea for someone like her!
Dr. Beth Eve Corn, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, say, "Air conditioning is extremely important for patients with allergy and asthma. We recommend that everyone with allergy and asthma keep their window shut during the pollen season and use air conditioning so that pollens are not coming into someone’s bedroom or into the car we definitely recommend closing the window and using the air conditioner."
The problem is when the air conditioner isn't clean.
"You can imagine that an air conditioner the filter is filtering air that is coming into the home, what you're breathing. So if you have dirty filters are you basically breathing air that is contaminated," says Dr. Corn.
Now, provided you keep it clean, continuously running the air conditioner can lower the moisture enough to prevent the growth of mold, a common allergen.
But running an air conditioner without proper cleaning can contaminate it with mold--another reason why filters on air conditioners should be scrubbed regularly.
Harold Wissner, an air conditioning expert, says an occasional detailing job on your unit is best. "Changing the filter periodically, having the unit checked once a year, to see what condition it is, and when necessary have the machine brought in for cleaning and overhaul, get everything working efficiently again. Otherwise if you don't do it, the machine looks like this. This is all pollutants and germs which you're breathing into the system," says Wissner.
"In my opinion people should be cleaning out their air conditioners meticulously they should be changing their filters at least once or twice a year to make sure they aren't exposed to any of the dirt and other things that might accumulate in the filtering system," adds Dr. Corn.
Alisa argues, "It's not that hard you just open it up clean out the dust and throw it in the garbage."
And with it, her allergies.
Air conditioning applications
The experts in this field have put air conditioning applications into two broad categories. They are process and comfort.
The process applications simply aim to provide a proper environment irrespective of the weather conditions outside or the amount of heat inside. Process applications are inclusive of the following aspects:
- In all hospitals the air is filtered through several levels so that it is able to reduce infection and also control patient dehydration. Temperatures are maintained at a comfortable level. Open-heart surgery need low temperatures about 18 C and some others like neonatal require higher temperatures of about 28 C.
- Pharmaceuticals and integrated circuits are produced in cleanrooms. These places need to have clean air, controlled temperature and humidity so that the process is a success.
- Laboratory animals need special conditions. Most animals reproduce during spring and laboratories need to maintain that climate so that the animals are able to reproduce all the year round.
- Air conditioning in aircrafts mainly provides comfortable temperatures for all the passengers. It is indeed a special process because the pressure outside is low.
- Some other process applications include industrial environments, mines, food processing and cooking areas, nuclear facilities, textile facilities, data processing centers and physical testing centers.
Comfort applications provide an optimal temperature inside and this is fixed according to the preference of the individuals. This condition is not dependant on the weather conditions outside or the amount of heat inside. It has been claimed that comfort air conditioning increases the rate of productivity in workers. This is obviously a disputed fact. The apparent changes in worker productivity can be due to the feeling that the employer has expressed concern about the welfare of his workers. Comfort air conditioning makes deep plan buildings practicable. Without this buildings need to be built in such a way that there is plenty of light and fresh air. In tall buildings natural ventilation is not possible because the speed of air increases considerably with altitude. Comfort applications vary with different types of buildings and the different categories are:
- Commercial buildings- these are buildings that have apartment housings, shopping centers and malls. - Residential buildings- these are the homes either single family or a number of apartments built in together. - Institutional buildings- these have a large number of offices, hospitals, and large sized complex buildings.
In both the types of application the goal is to control not only the temperature but also factors like air quality, air movement and humidity as well.
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