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by Dr. Drew Henry, Dr.

Wherever you go today, you will face a constant attack of pollution; not only from air, but also from water and noise. There are almost as many types of air pollution as there are potential solutions. No matter what type of air purification system you're looking for, you should know that there is not one product on the market today that can solve every problem.

In order to find out which type of air purification solution is the most suitable for you. It is therefore necessary for you to understand all these five typed of air pollution first.

1. Radon Gas Pollution: Radon is a completely odorless, tasteless and colorless gas, and is the heaviest of all known gasses. It is caused by the radioactive breakdown of uranium inside the earth. When radon is cooled below freezing, it turns a brilliant phosphorescent shade of yellow, which turns orange-red as it gets colder. Radon is also the second leading cause of lung cancer. Smoking exacerbates the affects of radon. Radon is found all around us, in our homes, our yards and the world around us.

Recommended Solution: The best solution to this form of pollution is to first of all test your home (a simple test is available at most hardware stores) and then to seal all cracks and openings in your home's foundation. If the problem merits it, you may need to have a certified contractor install a ventilation system inside your home.

2. Chemical Fumes and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC). This type of pollution comes from chemicals like benzene and formaldehyde, the chemical fumes that are constantly seeping from carpets, upholstery, furniture, draperies, household cleaning products, beauty products such as nail polish, removers, etc. They also come from cigarette, cigar and pipe smoke, building construction, etc. Many of these chemicals have been identified as carcinogens.

Recommended Solution: Currently the best solution on the market for this type of pollution are products that produce catalytic oxidation.

3. Microbial Causing Pollution. Microbials are microscopic bacteria, fungi, mycotoxins created by a fungus, mildew, mold spores and viruses. They can be as small as .001 microns. Microbials love to live in warm, damp places, or under your carpet, in your walls and in heating and air conditioning ducts.

Recommended Solution: Currently the best solutions on the market for this type of pollution are those that produce oxidation, which kills microbials.

4. Odor Causing Pollution. Odor comes from many different places - food, animals, human bodies, cigarettes, cigars and pipe smoke, sports shoes, clothing and equipment, etc. Although not necessarily dangerous, if you've ever walked into your teenage son's room after he's come back from a football game and taken a deep breath - you know it can be very unpleasant!

Recommended Solution: Currently, the best solutions on the market for this type of pollution are odor sponges, ozone and oxidation.

5. Particulate Causing Pollution. Particulates are those little floating things you see when the sun comes shining in through your windows, and include dust, dust mites, dust mite feces, pet dander, skin flakes (what dust mites eat), pollen, smoke particles and allergens.

Recommended Solution: Currently the best solutions on the market for this type of pollution are infiltration and negative ions.

With this basic understanding about pollution you are now ready to make that all important decision about which system is going to be best for you. The choice is yours!

We are breathing in an atmosphere which is extremely contaminateddue to numerous factors. The growth of industries has caused acute air contamination as it discharges huge quantities of dangerous; smoke and gases. The waste from factories is released in form of smolder and fumes, moreover the gas and dust given out by vehicles too add significantly to air contamination. Well, whatever may be the reason, you must be aware of the dangerous effects of inhaling contaminated air. While you inhale harmful and impure air, your body becomes the store house of dangerous diseases like cough, asthma, suffocation, breathlessness, allergies, respiratory tract diseases, and in acute cases, you may even suffer lung cancer if you are continuously exposed to the atmosphere where you have to breathe impure air.

But there is a solution to every problem and the great solution to lessen the ill effects of breathing impure air is to use air purifiers. Air purifiers are a great way to reduce allergies, asthma etc and helps to prevent other breathing diseases. There are a variety of air purifiers available in the market which are greatly developed to filter even the smallest of microbes. The variety includes Ionic air purifiers, HEPA UV air purifier that uses picture catalytic effect to purify air or Hega air filters etc. These air purifiers have proved to be quite effective to discard air pollutants like bacteria, mold, viruses and organic pollutants to a considerable amount. Even the awful stink from the fumes that are there in the air is effectively decreased by these modern air purifiers.

The air purifiers use latest technology to purify the air that is safe enough to breathe and there by decreasing the allergies to a large degree. The combination of two latest machineries that is photochemistry and photoplasma, helps to purify air and therefore offer outstanding methods to filter contaminated air. UV light helps to break down the organic pollutives in smaller particles which become easy to purify for example, hair, dust particles, dander and other microbes like bacteria, virus or mold etc. The dangerous organic molecules are destroyed in the air filteration process giving you a cleaner and harmless air to breathe.

Most of the difficulties related to respiratory tract are just due to allergies that we are unable to resist. Allergies can be controlled by breathing in a fresher and contamination free surrounding. Allergies are basically how our body reacts to a particular atmosphere or food that we eat and mostly all the human beings in the world suffer from some or the other type of allergy.Reactions can influence externally on our skin in form of rashes or dryness, and internally on our breathing. The main cause of common cough, cold or even asthma is due to allergy and this is all due to pollutants present in air. Some people are allergic to particular odor, or some may respond due to some dangerous smolder and fumes in air or others may simply feel sick due to harmful bacteria and virus in air, thus it is very important to filter the air around us. So, in order to live better and allergy free life, it is most excellent to use air purification system to reduce your allergies.

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