Best HVAC Filters for Patients with Bad Allergies

For patients with bad allergies, management of symptoms include not just medications and allergy shots , but also avoidance. Avoidance entails not just physically avoiding allergy particulates, but also removing them from the air you breath as much as you can. Outside of a school or work environment, the home is where a patient may spend a great deal of time. The home is where one can easily take steps to improve the air quality and therefore reduce allergy symptoms and need for (more) all…

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Facial Masks for Patients with Bad Allergies

Assuming a patient is already taking allergy medications and even undergoing allergy shots , the other component for good allergy symptom control is avoidance. You can certainly add good filters to a home's HVAC system , but what about outside??? What if avoidance is impossible? For example, if you need to cut the grass on your lawn and you have severe grass allergies or if you need to clean out a moldy basement and you have bad mold allergies? That's when wearing a face mask or r…

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Hearing and Understanding ONE Voice Among Many Sounds

Have you ever wondered how is it that a normal hearing human being can hear and understand one person talking in an environment where there are many other people talking just as loudly be it a restaurant, conference, county fair, etc? How is it that you can hear and understand one particular person over another, even if they are both talking equally loud? Researchers are just beginning to understand how a human does it... Before explaining, lets use an analogy. In the past, I used the a…

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Dirty Air Filters and Allergies - Don't Forget the Car!!!

Most people with bad allergies know to change their home's air filter at least quarterly with at least a 1000 microparticle performance rating (mpr). Such filters will remove pollen, dust, and other airborne particles that may exacerbate allergies as well as keep the vent system within a home clean. BUT... allergic patients should also not forget to change their car's air filter as well regularly, especially given the car is moving around outside and people often have the air cond…

7/20/2012 0

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Better Air Filter Than HEPA? It's Called ULPA

HEPA is widely considered the gold standard when it comes to air filtration, especially for those patients suffering from allergies. What many people may not realize is that there are air filters even better than HEPA called ULPA. HEPA removes 99.97% of particles 0.3 micrometers or more. ULPA removes 99.999% of particles 0.12 micrometers or greater. ULPA is correspondingly much more expensive. Here are some HEPA filters sold on Amazon.com: Here is an ULPA unit sold on Am…

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