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5 Asthma and Allergy Tips for a Healthier Home for the Holidays
Holiday decorations make your home fun and festive. But they can also bring in asthma triggers and allergens. How do you deck the halls while keeping a healthy home? Here are five asthma & allergy friendly® tips for a healthier home for the holidays. Wear a mask while dusting off decoration...Read more -
Why Indoor Air Quality is Important to Schools
Overview Most people are aware that outdoor air pollution can impact their health, but indoor air pollution can also have significant and harmful health effects. EPA studies of human exposure to air pollutants indicate that indoor levels of pollutants may be two to five times — and occasionally m...Read more -
Indoor Air Pollution from Cooking
Cooking can contaminate the indoor air with harmful pollutants, but range hoods can effectively remove them. People use a variety of heat sources to cook food, including gas, wood, and electricity. Each of these heat sources can create indoor air pollution during cooking. Natural gas and propane ...Read more -
Reading the Air Quality Index
The Air Quality Index (AQI) is a representation of air pollution concentration levels. It assigns numbers on a scale between 0 and 500 and is used to help determine when air quality is expected to be unhealthy. Based on federal air quality standards, the AQI includes measures for six major air po...Read more -
Volatile Organic Compounds’ Impact on Indoor Air Quality
Introduction Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are emitted as gases from certain solids or liquids. VOCs include a variety of chemicals, some of which may have short- and long-term adverse health effects. Concentrations of many VOCs are consistently higher indoors (up to ten times higher) than ...Read more -
Primary Causes of Indoor Air Problems – Secondhand Smoke and Smoke-free Homes
What is Secondhand Smoke? Secondhand smoke is a mixture of the smoke given off by the burning of tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars or pipes and the smoke exhaled by smokers. Secondhand smoke is also called environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Exposure to secondhand smoke is sometimes cal...Read more -
Primary Causes of Indoor Air Problems
Indoor pollution sources that release gases or particles into the air are the primary cause of indoor air quality problems. Inadequate ventilation can increase indoor pollutant levels by not bringing in enough outdoor air to dilute emissions from indoor sources and by not carrying indoor air po...Read more -
Indoor Air Pollution and Health
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) refers to the air quality within and around buildings and structures, especially as it relates to the health and comfort of building occupants. Understanding and controlling common pollutants indoors can help reduce your risk of indoor health concerns. Health effects fro...Read more -
How — and when — to check indoor air quality in your home
Whether you are working remotely, home-schooling or simply hunkering down as the weather gets cooler, spending more time in your home means you’ve had a chance to get up close and personal with all of its quirks. And that may have you wondering, “What is that smell?” or, “Why do I start coughi...Read more -
What is Indoor Air Pollution?
Indoor air pollution is the contamination of the indoor air caused by pollutants and sources like Carbon Monoxide, Particulate Matter, Volatile Organic Compounds, Radon, Mould and Ozone. While outdoor air pollution has captured the attention of millions, the worst air quality that ...Read more -
Advise the public and professionals
Improving indoor air quality is not the responsibility of individuals, one industry, one profession or one government department. We must work together to make safe air for children a reality. Below is an extract of the recommendations made by the Indoor Air Quality Working Party from pag...Read more -
Poor indoor air quality at home is linked to health effects in people of all ages. Associated child related health effects include breathing problems, chest infections, low birth weight, pre-term birth, wheeze, allergies, eczema, skin problems, hyperactivity, inattention, difficulty slee...Read more