What is the importance of Air Quality and why is Osage Air so excited about clean air?
Clean air in your home is important for many reasons. Below are some essential reasons why maintaining clean air inside your home is so important:
- Your Health and over all Well-being: Unpolluted air is extremely important for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.. Indoor air pollution can make you feel very unwell. Items you might find in your air that are harmful to you and your family include allergens, dust, pet dander, mold spores, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), can cause or exacerbate respiratory problems, allergies, asthma, and other health issues. Knowing you are breathing clean air can help prevent these problems.
- Improved Indoor Air Quality (IAQ): Indoor air quality refers to the level of pollutants present in the air inside a building. Poor IAQ can have both short-term and long-term effects on health. Clean air minimizes the concentration of harmful pollutants and creates a healthier living environment for occupants. Osage offer several IAQ products that help poor indoor air quality.
- Enhanced Cognitive Function: Quality air has been proved to improve mental and cognitive function. Some studies have shown that exposure to pollutants can impair cognitive abilities, attention span, and memory. Breathing clean air promotes brain function, brain fog, productivity, and overall mental performance.
- Quality Sleep: The air you breathe while you are asleep can severely impact your how well you sleep. Bad air quality in your home, especially if it has irritants or allergens from pets or dust, can lead to a poor night of sleep. Issues some people face with air that is polluted in their home include snoring, and sleep apnea. Clean air in your home deeply affects your sleep, health, and well being.
- Odor Reduction: Clean air helps remove poor odors and smells from the home. These odors may be caused by cooking, smoking, pets, or other sources. Foul odors can make you uncomfortable in your own home and removing those odors can be as simple as having your ductwork cleaned, an UV light places in your system, or a Tune up to wash your equipment and maintain it in the fall and winter.
- Allergy and Asthma Management: For people with asthma and allergies, high quality air is crucial. Allergens in the air such as pollen, dust mites, and pet dander often trigger allergic reactions and asthma symptoms. Removing these allergens through proper ventilation, air filtration, and clean HVAC systems can greatly reduce this problem, I have 2 sons that struggle with allergies, and 1 son with asthma. The quality of our air for our home was vital to their health and over all well being.