How to Treat Hay Fever With an Air Purifier

Seasonal allergies affect millions of people every year. As spring approaches, people head out in droves to purchase antihistamines, decongestants, and other staples required to survive the coming immune system bombardment.

In addition to loading up on medications, people brace for the coming months of irritation and irritability caused with limited options for relief. However, there is an often overlooked method of relieving your hay fever symptoms that has been steadily growing in popularity over the past several years: an air purifier.

For many, even secluding themselves indoors is not a guarantee of relief during allergy season. Pollen particles and other allergens easily find their way inside homes and buildings. Pollen floats in on the air, or is carried in on clothing whenever a person walks through the door. There is no preventing it.

However, an air purifier can be used to create a pollen free environment, which is why air purifiers are steadily making their way in to more and more homes and offices. As people look for alternatives to medications & allergy shots to relieve their hay fever symptoms, they're beginning to find something that really works.

How air purifiers relieve allergies:

Seasonal allergies are caused by an immune system response to coming in contact with pollen allergens. An Air Purifier works by filtering the pollen out of the air, thereby reducing your exposure to these allergens when indoors.

What type of purifier will work?

An unit with a high quality HEPA filter is required for maximum allergy relief. Only a unit with a filter will capture 99%+ of allergens out of the air that passes through the unit.

Ionic purifiers with collection plates are not recommended. These require constant cleaning of the plates to maintain performance, and will only filter out about 30% of the allergens on a single pass.

Ozone generators are dangerous to your health and should never be used for allergies. Ozone is used to kill mold and remove odors, but cannot remove pollen from the air. Ozone is also a lung irritant and these units are banned in California for that reason.

Other Tips:

Get an air purifier that is rated for the proper square footage of the room you want to place it in. A tiny unit sitting a large living room will be very ineffective. It will not be able to circulate enough air to reduce the allergens present in the room.