Allergens can cause significant health risks, especially if one of your family members has sensitive lungs. By knowing how allergens in your air duct can affect you, you can take precautions for your family's comfort and health. Cleaning the air ducts once a year or every two years can significantly reduce or even eliminate allergens that hide inside the ducts. This will help you enjoy fewer annoying symptoms all year round.
If you have only been dealing with allergies for a short period, cleaning the air ducts is unlikely to help as the cause of allergies is probably something else, such as pollen or dust. However, if you've been dealing with allergies for a long time, they're more likely to be caused by something in the air ducts. In this case, cleaning the air ducts can help eliminate allergens from your home and improve your symptoms. During spring and also in early summer, the wind is more likely to pick up and blow around various particles. These particles can affect our sensitive noses.
In winter, these particles are more likely to be deposited in uninterrupted parts until next summer or spring. Cleaning the air duct means removing dirt from the surfaces of the air duct. You must do this to lower the levels of several allergie-causing atoms present in the air inside your home. However, there is debate as to whether cleaning the ducts will essentially decrease allergy symptoms or not. Some allergists and immunologists claim that cleaning the ducts is not very helpful for people with allergies.
However, they agreed that cleaning air ducts is a healthy habit. This is because when you clean your air duct, you will find a lot of garbage there, which can worsen the condition of an allergic person. And when you clean them, you ensure that you have fresh, healthy air inside your home. According to the U. S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), cleaning the air duct will not do any harm to you or your family. So it will be better if you consider cleaning it frequently. As soon as you discover which allergens cause problems in your body, take the necessary steps to avoid their effect. Some common allergens that circulate through air ducts include dust mites, mold, pet dander, pollen, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Dust mites are tiny organisms that live in almost every home and usually live in upholstered furniture, beds, or any other fabric.
They eat the dead skin cells that our bodies shed naturally and produce waste that can activate and aggravate asthma and allergy symptoms. Mold requires water to grow, so you'll often discover it in humid areas such as around the ventilation grille of the bathroom or shower, in small spaces (26%), basements. However, mold is not always noticeable. It can grow anywhere where there is moisture behind walls, under the floor, and even in AIR DUCTS. When mold grows, it tends to release spores into the air which are another common source of allergy symptoms. Like humans, most domestic pets (commonly dogs and cats) tend to shed dead patches on their skin which are identified as dandruff.
This can cause allergic reactions in some people with allergies. Pollen present in the outside air and also on the ground can be trapped in our shoes and clothes and therefore without knowing it we bring pollen to our homes. This pollen is a threat to allergy sufferers. Open windows and doors often allow pollen to contaminate indoor air so be very careful with these allergens. Most of us don't think much about volatile organic compounds (VOCs). However, they are all around us.
Volatile organic compounds are harmful gases that come from common household items such as cleaning printers and even fluids produce VOCs. Your home's air conditioning system circulates these volatile organic compounds through your air ducts. Have you ever noticed what happens as soon as you eject dust from an object? There are times when flying dust falls on you again and people who have allergies will start sneezing out of nowhere. Likewise, as soon as your air conditioning system blows air through dust-covered ducts, you'll end up with dust mites and dust in the air in your home as well as bacteria, pet dander, mold spores, and viruses. Therefore it is necessary to clean allergens, dust, and also other impurities from the air ducts. This will undoubtedly improve air quality and also reduce allergy warning signs. Poor air quality in your workplace or home causes a host of irritating health problems such as ear throat and eye irritations; sneezing; coughing; dizziness; headaches; etc.
Has anyone in your family been complaining lately of any of these? Well if you've noticed any of these symptoms it could be due to dirt present in your air duct so it will be better if you consider cleaning the air duct as soon as possible. Flying allergens can build up and build up in the air duct over time every time you turn on the heating or use the air conditioner; the accumulated allergens travel through the air ducts and therefore pass into indoor air. Does your home have open windows or doors that can increase dust buildup? Have your air ducts been professionally cleaned in the past 4 to 5 years? Do your allergy warning signs seem to deteriorate as soon as you use the air conditioning system? As soon as heating or AC is turned on it is possible for allergens to spread throughout so consider cleaning them frequently for better health.
