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What is Your Air Change Rate?

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Submitted By Catalytic PURE AIR LLC | There are many toxic indoor air environments needing our attention. Indoor air quality can be affected by microbial contaminants (mold, bacteria), gases (including carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds) and particulates (dust, dirt, pollen). With all of these pollutants, it’s no wonder indoor air is becoming more of a health hazard than outdoor air. These toxic environments affect our health with headaches, coughing, sneezing and trigger … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Allergies, Current Issue, Family Health Tagged With: air quality, Allergies, breathing, toxic

Poor Indoor Air Quality Affects Children

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Submitted By Catalytic PURE AIR LLC | Good indoor air quality is essential, especially for young children who breathe faster than adults--inhaling 50 percent more air per pound of body weight. Children and pets have many needs--food, water, exercise and love. But how often do you stop to think about what exactly your children and pets are breathing? Like children, pets also suffer from allergies, asthma and other respiratory problems. Even though indoor air is typically two to five times … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Allergies, Current Issue, Pets Tagged With: air quality, Allergies, kids, Pets

What you can’t see, can harm you.

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Submitted By Catalytic PURE AIR LLC | On average, we take 24,000 breaths each day. That is close to 3,000 gallons of air, per day. Since we spend about 80 percent of our time indoors, it is important to know the contaminants that affect our indoor air quality, and health. These contaminants include: particulates: solid and liquid substances light enough to float in air such as dust, dirt, smoke and pollen, etc; biological contaminants: bacteria, viruses and molds; and, chemical pollutants: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Current Issue, Healthy Tips Tagged With: air quality, Allergies

Allergy Relief: Maximum Prevention – Minimal Medicine

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Submitted By Jim Kenney | Allergy aggravating pollen is tough this time of year. With the strong winds of the Sierra Nevada and high desert, pollen is spread far and wide with pollen counts varying throughout the day. Weed, tree and grass particles can get in the air and easily travel into the home. Allergies and asthma can flair up, causing discomfort, which sends us reaching for a solution from the pharmacy or medicine cabinet. Consumers spend nearly $18 billion annually on asthma and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Allergies, Current Issue, Natural Solutions Tagged With: air quality, Allergies, allergy relief

Health & Quality of Indoor Enviornments

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•A Six-Part Series• By Kimberly A. Phipps-Nichol Most people, including those of us living in the Northern Nevada/Reno/Tahoe region, spend 50 – 70% of their time indoors and yet are not aware of the various impacts that buildings have on our wellbeing. Sure, buildings can be as simple as shelter from inclement weather or as audacious as statement piece museums designed by super-star Architects, but the definition of good design for any structure should be contingent on whether the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Health, Green Living Tagged With: air quality, green

Where’s There’s Fire, There’s Smoke…

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By Lauren Birtwhistle and Carole Bucher Reno Sparks Air Quality Hot Line:       775-785-4110 All-Area Air Quality Online Info: www.airquality.org                        www.wunderground.com The smoky haze in our part of the world has been a formidable challenge this summer, and we’ve all been a little choked up by it. Lightning storms have sparked hundreds of fires throughout California. Now, smoke is pouring along the west coast. In some places, the smoke has been so bad … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Conscious Health, Family Health, Healthy Tips Tagged With: air quality
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