Improving Indoor Air Quality

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Ceiling fans are great for circulating air, especially when clean!

    Poor indoor air quality can attribute to physical health concerns, with minor symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, fatigue, and headaches. In more severe cases it can increase the risk of heart disease, respiratory infections, stroke, and lung cancer. Affecting those with existing illness much more severely than those who are not ill.

It has become widely recognized that the virus that causes COVID is majorly carried and transmitted by airborne droplets that hang around in the air indoors and do so for extended periods of time. Aside from wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) all the time and/or isolating from our social lives, there is progressive action that we can take to create safe spots inside and gradually reduce the risk of exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. There is a tremendous amount of people that do not often allow fresh air inside of their homes and place of work or keep proper ventilation. Despite fresh air and proper ventilation, without PPE, you are still at risk until the air and surfaces have been properly disinfected.

The mitigation of airborne disease transmission is not provided by the current minimum ventilation rates. Common standards aim to limit the harmful pollutants such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and formaldehyde, yet not pathogens. For those of us with allergic asthma, we don’t always benefit from allowing fresh air indoors, when allergens are prevalent in our area. While we know that fully opening a window or door is more effective, opening a window even slightly, still helps. You can turn on your “whole house fan” to aid in better ventilation and if you do not have a “whole house fan” you can place a fan in or nearby a window, blowing outwards, to help increase ventilation. To better draw in fresh air, you can crack a window placed opposite of the fan. Another effective way to disinfect the air indoors is by running an air purifier that is specified for the total amount of space you’re looking to purify, with the filters being a vital role in its’ success. When it comes to the surfaces indoors, it is commonly overlooked just how many there are. Surfaces that receive high traffic should be often disinfected, while other areas benefit from daily cleaning with products containing a soap or detergent.

Whether you clean more often or choose to disinfect a space should be decided by the amount of traffic it receives, if it has proper ventilation, or if there has been anyone sick present.

    

- Written 07/31/2022 by Isabella Johnson -

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