Indoor Air Quality Impacts Child Asthma
Humidex Reduces Contaminates that Trigger Asthma Attacks
According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) controlling the air quality in your home can reduce allergy and asthma symptoms. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports that fewer than 30 percent of people with asthma are taking simple steps to reduce exposure triggers, such as dust mites and mold that can set off an asthma attack. Humidex, a home ventilation system, improves indoor air quality by constantly expelling moist, musty and contaminated air and replacing it with drier, warmer and fresher air. This process reduces humidity, which decreases dust mite and mold growth.
(I-Newswire) - Oceanside, New York – July 2005 – According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America ( AAFA ) controlling the air quality in your home can reduce allergy and asthma symptoms. The Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) reports that fewer than 30 percent of people with asthma are taking simple steps to reduce exposure triggers, such as dust mites and mold that can set off an asthma attack. Humidex, a home ventilation system, improves indoor air quality by constantly expelling moist, musty and contaminated air and replacing it with drier, warmer and fresher air. This process reduces humidity, which decreases dust mite and mold growth.
“Our newborn son [was] having severe asthma, and it seemed that nothing provided him with relief,” said customers Denise and Bill Kaiser. “Our son has not been hospitalized since Humidex was installed. Before the installation of the system we were in the hospital every month.”
With Americans spending more than 90 percent of their time indoors, the air quality within homes and buildings has been ranked among the top five environmental dangers to the public, according to the EPA. Indoor pollutants such as dust, mold spores, fungi spores and dust mites all contribute to poor indoor air quality and exacerbate severe allergies and asthma, especially among children.
Humidex, which monitors and reduces relative humidity year round, pulls the moisture from where it accumulates, maximizing the airflow by expelling the moist air to the outside and replenishing it with drier air. As a result of the airflow created, indoor air quality significantly improves thus reducing indoor pollutants that cause allergens and respiratory ailments, such as asthma.
“As more homes are built tightly sealed and heavily insulated, allergens, toxins and moisture are locked-in. The Humidex unit provides a maintenance free, energy efficient, year-round solution,” said Phil Konigsberg, President of Humidex Atlantic. “From million dollar to mobile homes, Humidex creates a healthier home environment.”
About Asthma According to The University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital, asthma is a chronic, inflammatory lung disease characterized by recurrent breathing problems usually triggered by allergens. The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America ( AAFA ) estimates that asthma effects more than 20 million Americans. For more information on asthma treatment and prevention visit www.aafa.org. The following information is from AAFA’s website:
 An estimated 20 million Americans suffer from asthma ( 1 in 15 Americans ) and 50 percent of asthma cases are “allergic-asthma.” The prevalence of asthma has been increasing since the early 1980s across all age, sex and racial groups.
 Among children ages 5 to 17, asthma is the leading cause of school absences from a chronic illness. It accounts for an annual loss of more than 14 million school days per year ( approximately 8 days for each student with asthma ) and more hospitalizations than any other childhood disease. It is estimated that children with asthma spend nearly 8 million days per year restricted to bed.
 Each day 14 Americans die from asthma. There are more than 5,000 deaths due to asthma each year, many of which are avoidable with proper treatment and care.
 Nearly 5 million asthma sufferers are under age 18. It is the most common chronic childhood disease, affecting more than one child in 20.
 Asthma is the third-ranking cause of hospitalization of children.
About Humidex Atlantic Humidex Atlantic, headquartered in Oceanside, NY, is the exclusive U.S. distributor of Humidex, a home ventilation and humidity control unit. This cutting-edge, patented ventilation device solves the moisture problem by constantly expelling moist, musty and contaminated air from homes and replacing it with drier, warmer and fresher air. Humidex ventilation systems include a wide variety of units for basements, crawl spaces, slab homes and units for condos for property managers. For more information, visit www.humidexatlantic.com or call ( 800 ) 283-9577. # # #
Sources: American Lung Association, Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Environmental Protection Agency
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