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It might be a good idea to seek medical advice from your doctor
Last time I spoke with a doctor about sinus issues they just told me to grab some OTC remedy and that was mostly it
I have been monitoring my indoor house air for two years now, and attempting to keep my air as healthy as possible. I have found that: 1) If you are lucky enough to live in an area with clean air, opening a window is orders of magnitude quicker and more effective way to clean air. 2) Gas stoves are the worst thing you can do to your house air (a fume Hood can partially mitigate this) 3) You should be weary of using a…
Life is better if you can dust and vacuum on days when you can open the windows. I don't think people understand how much dust the vacuum cleaner doesn't pick up, not because it goes through the filter, but because it gets kicked up by the brush and never enters the fan at all. If you don't believe me, try vacuuming a particularly dirty carpet while barefoot. Exchanging the air before the dust settles out is a lot be…
Not having a particularly dirty carpet to vacuum handy, what happens? You feel the dirt pelting your feet?
The contrast indicates that regularly replacing the HEPA filters of APs could represent an effective method of avoiding increased endotoxins in the filtered air. That's a pretty clickbaity paper title. The lede was buried. A better title would have been: Regularly replacing HEPA filters may reduce endotoxins in filtered air I'm a high school drop out so what do I know.
It’s not that simple though, the study states that replacing the filters removes large endotoxins, but not small ones. The small ones are still present
Bit strange given that you've removed the alleged source of the problem (stuff caught in old filter).
I have been monitoring my indoor house air for two years now, and attempting to keep my air as healthy as possible. I have found that: 1) If you are lucky enough to live in an area with clean air, opening a window is orders of magnitude quicker and more effective way to clean air. 2) Gas stoves are the worst thing you can do to your house air (a fume Hood can partially mitigate this) 3) You should be weary of using a…
Life is better if you can dust and vacuum on days when you can open the windows. I don't think people understand how much dust the vacuum cleaner doesn't pick up, not because it goes through the filter, but because it gets kicked up by the brush and never enters the fan at all. If you don't believe me, try vacuuming a particularly dirty carpet while barefoot. Exchanging the air before the dust settles out is a lot be…
A relative of mine is a 70 year old widower. He's a huge slob and after his wife died 10 years ago, he really doesn't bother to ever clean his house or his kitchen. It's not depression, he's just never been a particularly neat or clean person and simply doesn't care beyond an extremely minimal level. He is in great health and never gets sick, whether from food poisoning or anything else.
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Have you compared gas stoves to electric stoves? With our induction hob we found cooking in general produces loads of pm10.
That's really interesting! I switched from electric to gas (I regret not doing induction) and I found the pm10 and 2.5 are very similar for both. It is Co2 and No2 and vocs that surprise me about the gas stove. I'm no expert, just a lay person trying to make sense of it all but maybe the PM is from the food and therefore pretty consistent for all types of cooking?
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Life is better if you can dust and vacuum on days when you can open the windows. I don't think people understand how much dust the vacuum cleaner doesn't pick up, not because it goes through the filter, but because it gets kicked up by the brush and never enters the fan at all. If you don't believe me, try vacuuming a particularly dirty carpet while barefoot. Exchanging the air before the dust settles out is a lot be…
What's the evidence that bacteria smeared around on an otherwise visibly "clean" kitchen counter, or dust kicked up from your carpet (which is largely human skin cells anyway) is actually harmful or "unsafe"? A relative of mine is a 70 year old widower. He's a huge slob and after his wife died 10 years ago, he really doesn't bother to ever clean his house or his kitchen. It's not depression, he's just never been a pa…
> counterintuitively the kitchen of a college student may be safer than the kitchen of a 40-something
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What's the evidence that bacteria smeared around on an otherwise visibly "clean" kitchen counter, or dust kicked up from your carpet (which is largely human skin cells anyway) is actually harmful or "unsafe"? A relative of mine is a 70 year old widower. He's a huge slob and after his wife died 10 years ago, he really doesn't bother to ever clean his house or his kitchen. It's not depression, he's just never been a pa…
But doesn't that support GP's statement? > counterintuitively the kitchen of a college student may be safer than the kitchen of a 40-something
Wait, so bateria that are in your home are getting sucked into the filter like they're supposed to do, die and release endotoxins. But they're going to die anyway and still release those endotoxins but it's just going to be all over my couch that I sit on every day. Ok, maybe that nasty filter you haven't changed in a year provided an environment for the bacteria to grow and the fan disperses it. Sure, I get it if it…
Regardless, I agree with you. If the filter prevents you from breathing X% bacteria and y% of bacteria produce endotoxins then your choices are
-Breathe in that extra x% bacteria and have them produce xy endotoxins directly in your lungs
-Kill the bacteria but breather in their xy endotoxins that are dispersed in the air.
Seems like a zero sum game when
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Have you compared gas stoves to electric stoves? With our induction hob we found cooking in general produces loads of pm10.
That's really interesting! I switched from electric to gas (I regret not doing induction) and I found the pm10 and 2.5 are very similar for both. It is Co2 and No2 and vocs that surprise me about the gas stove. I'm no expert, just a lay person trying to make sense of it all but maybe the PM is from the food and therefore pretty consistent for all types of cooking?
Did you mean induction? Convection just means "An oven with an internal fan to circulate hot air" (so actually not convection in the sense of a temperature difference driven air current).
Induction is using oscillating magnetic fields to heat a ferromagnetic cooking vessel.
> It is Co2 and No2 and vocs that surprise me about the gas stove.
Those are always the byproduct of low temperature open combustion of hydrocarbons, which is what a gas stove is doing.
> I'm no expert, just a lay person trying to make sense of it all but maybe the PM is from the food and therefore pretty consistent for all types of cooking?
I have an induction stove in a house whose baseline PM2.5, CO2, VOCs are very low (by design). I monitor PM2.5, C02 and VOCs during cooking, and the food itself definitely produces PM2.5, since that's the only measure that increases very much when I'm cooking (and only if I forget to turn on the stove extractor fan).
However, studies have shown that cooking on gas emits many times the amount of PM2.5 as electric. The difference is mostly in the energy delivery method, not the food cooked.
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Life is better if you can dust and vacuum on days when you can open the windows. I don't think people understand how much dust the vacuum cleaner doesn't pick up, not because it goes through the filter, but because it gets kicked up by the brush and never enters the fan at all. If you don't believe me, try vacuuming a particularly dirty carpet while barefoot. Exchanging the air before the dust settles out is a lot be…
What's the evidence that bacteria smeared around on an otherwise visibly "clean" kitchen counter, or dust kicked up from your carpet (which is largely human skin cells anyway) is actually harmful or "unsafe"? A relative of mine is a 70 year old widower. He's a huge slob and after his wife died 10 years ago, he really doesn't bother to ever clean his house or his kitchen. It's not depression, he's just never been a pa…
vinegar and a squeegee > water and sponge > spray cleaner