Do Allergy Air Purifiers Kill Mold?
Have mold allergies? You can get really miserable if you don't get rid of mold. To live with cough, itchy, watery eyes, skin rash and hives, chest tightness, sinus headaches etc., one can be tired and have a hard time functioning. Allergy air purifiers are recommended to alleviate symptoms. Are they effective in killing mold?
There is mold in every home. What is important is how much? If you do not bring humidity levels below 50% in the basement, there is mold. Mold grows in warm, dark and damp places. It is so important to run a dehumidifier for basement. Lower humidity, stop mold. What is mold? Mold is a microscopic fungi that loves humidity and is invisible in the air. These are the molds that can cause serious health problems to your family: Alternaria, Aspergillus Chaetomium, Cladosporium, Fusarium, Mucor, Penicillium and Stachybotrys. The reactions can be serious respiratory problems like pneumonia, asthma, and even COPD. Other reactions include mental confusion, headaches which can be severe, allergy symptoms. Other serious reactions include: chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, bleeding of the brain, and even death. Take the presence of mold seriously. The bad part is that the invisible mold spores travel the second you open the basement door.
Allergy air purifiers use Hepa filtration to clean the air at a 99.97% of biological contaminants from the air including mold. That is a very effective job of killing mold in the air. Hepa filtration stands for high efficiency particulate air. To be effective they must contain a hepa filter.
There are other features that an allergy air purifier can have such as negative ion generation which literally produces fresh air like Mother Nature. Negative Ion generators produce negative ions which attract to the positive ions and they bind to fall to the ground: fresh air. Nature produces fresh air beneath a waterfall, in a meadow, at the beach where the waves crash. If you want fresh air, make sure negative ion generator is component in your purifier.
Ultraviolet Air purifiers penetrate the cell walls effectively killing the organism. UV-C light destroys: bacteria, germs, viruses and fungi (mold). UV-C light or Ultraviolet Air Purifiers have been used for decades in hospitals and have been effective in disinfecting the air.
Electrostatic Air Purifiers use the "corona Discharge" creating a magnetic field which atoms have to pass through. Depending on which side the atoms pass, the atoms gain either a positive or negative charge. Since opposites attract; they do so and because they are too heavy, they fall to the floor. There, they can be simply swept up by a hepa vacuum. An electrostatic air purifier neutralizes mold, viruses, bacteria, pollen, and cigarette smoke.
It is not just about killing mold in the air but also other biological contaminants that nobody wants in their house: germs, viruses, bacteria and fungi (mold). Everyone should own these allergy air purifiers. The air inside is far more polluted than outside. Kill mold and freshen the air at the same time.
While you killed the mold in the air, you still need to kill mold on surfaces. Wipe all surfaces with Borax. Leave the Borax on the wall. Sweep all that you cleaned with a hepa vacuum. Run a dehumidifier for basement in the humid months. That even means winter when it rains and there is no heat source in the basement.
It is recommended to keep watch of humidity levels by purchasing a hygrometer. They are not expensive. You will have to use air conditioning or a dehumidifier to lessen humidity. Allergy air purifiers not only bring fresh air to your home, they kill mold spores and help to lessen mold allergies and other serious reactions to chronic exposure of mold. If you add activated carbon filter to the allergy air purifier, you trap (VOC) volatile organic compounds which are also harmful.
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