Why is indoor air pollution a problem and what can we do? | Hubbub Vlog
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Air pollution is one of the trends we think is going to hit the headlines big time in 2019 but did you know that air quality can actually be up to five times worse inside your home?
We spend 90% of our time indoors and Research by the World Health Organisation has found that indoor air quality can often be two to five times worse than outdoors. We use loads of different things in our home that produce pollutants and without proper ventilation (which people find difficult especially in winter) all that bad air can stay circulating around your home.
Luckily there are some really simple things you can do to clean up the air in your home:
1) Open your windows more often to ventilate your home. This is really important when drying clothes inside or cooking. Try opening the windows when you wake up and before you go to bed for ten minutes.
2) Fill your home with air cleansing plants. Check out this NASA approved list lifehacker.com...
3) Clean carpets and sheets regularly. Dust mites love to snuggle up in musty places so a quick clean can make all the difference.
4) Switch to natural cleaning products to reduce chemical fumes or if you do have to use heavy chemicals make sure to open the windows. NOTE: we have been informed that VOC's
'come from anything that smells - lemons, perfume, coffee all have a very high VOC profiles - it is the dose / exposure that is the problem not the VOC per se.'. So best to open the window even when using natural cleaning products.
Thanks to the British Lung Foundation for their advice, if you want to find out more head to their website www.blf.org.uk...
To find out more about air pollution in general check out this video we made last year at Michael Pinsky’s Pollution Pods • How bad is air polluti...
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I’ve been inside because of quarantine for 5 months and have only left twice and my family has been smoking a pack of cigarettes a day without letting it out I feel like I’m dying
not good. my dad was a chain smoker. both my brother and I have severe asthma. I would get a decent air filter, open the windows as much as possible...and maybe give them some literature on second hand smoke.
I've done a lot of troubleshooting due to my allergies. I have two hepa air purifiers. One in the living room, and one in my bedroom. I turn it on when cleaning, but also it's on when I have a fan running, or when I'm sleeping for sure. I vacuum often, but that can kick stuff up, so I have the purifier going when I do that. You will see dust etc get caked up in the purifier over time, so it's definitely collecting what would be in the air otherwise. Cleaning dust off furniture, etc. Using dish soap and a rag is just fine to prevent chemicals. My issue can be opening the window during allergy seasons. I'm just inviting issue in, it feels, so it's hard to understand if it's worth opening for ventilation when it directly impacts me if I do. Maybe doing it for a little bit of time and not a long time is the answer for that.
Does all apparel like telvision ,console games make pollution indoor?
This is really interesting! Do you know whether it is still better to open your windows even if you live on a really polluted road?
I'd also like to know this!
Hi Elinor. It is still good to open your windows to air things out but try doing it at times of the day when there are less cars around to limit the amount of pollutants that come in!
Really informative - thank you! Do you have any tips for how to get rid of mould that doesn't require products with lots of chemicals in them? Are there any type of candles that are better / less harmful for indoor air quality?
HI Stine! Amazing questions. This blog has some great natural solutions, although we have been told that strong substances like vinegar still contain VOC's so it's best to open a window if you do use these recipes! www.mnn.com/your-home/at-home/stories/kill-mold-naturally-5-eco-friendly-ideas Soy candles or beeswax candles are a good option to reduce indoor air pollution.
i got a dehumidfier and it works great
I'm Asthmatic I'm so confused 🤷🏻♀️ on what to do
How about using air purifiers? Would that help air quality to be cleaner as well?
Hey Selina. That's a great question - we haven't done a lot of research on it but this article might be a useful starting point for you medium.com/@hellowynd/air-purifiers-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-f28d4c350534
@@HubbubFoundation - yes a good air filter will work. there are ones with activated charcoal that will filter out some chemicals. But the best thing is to switch to all natural cleansers. Chlorine and ammonia are just too strong to be used in the home. Oh, maybe in some horrible clean up situation, but not daily.
Thanks 😊
Hubbub, i have an active carbon filter to reduce indoor air pollution which i have found very effective at reducing flares of my autoimmune disease. it is home made and was just to try out. I now want to make a more permenant filter and can't find information to establish if i should take air from ceiling for filter and blow out at floor level or the other way round. My gut feeling is that polluted air is heavier than non polluted but i would very much like to be sure to get the best effect possible. Do you know of any studies that answer this?
That's amazing! How did you put it together? I couldn't find anything concrete online but I have passed on your question to a scientist we know to see if we can get to the bottom of it.
@@HubbubFoundation It was very simple to build. Buy an active carbon filter for any car that you like the shape and size of (the filter not the car) build a box around it and put an inline extractor fan with a pipe to blow the filtered air where you like. Be sure to keep the velocity of particles low enough to allow carbon to do it's job. All in it cost about 45€. My autoimmune flares have decreased by about 95% it has changed my life. I do have a second machine identical in my car as well.
@@robinhood4640 Hi there! I'm glad to hear that it's helped you so much that's incredible. We heard back from Andrew the air pollution expert and he said "Interesting. If it’s inside really there’s not going to be much difference between floor and ceiling but I’d go for ceiling anyway as there will be less dust resuspended from walking around on the floor."
@@HubbubFoundation Thankyou for getting back on this. Forgive me for being frank,but i was hoping for a bit more than an educated guess. I find very hard to believe that nobody has mesured air pollution levels at different hieghts within a room with multiple air flow/ventilation systems to understand the behaviour of particles and gasses. I do think that the difference between filtering from floor to ceiling or ceiling to floor is probably negligible but when you have a systemic autoimmune disease which affects multiple vital organs every step in the right direction is a good step no matter how tiny.