Ionic air purification - ozone - and health
Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 4:24 pm
here is the skinny...
Due to my allergies I bought the Ionic Pro from Outpost. I used it for the first time yesterday and I woke up feeling much better than usual.
No large lump of crud in my throat
No watery eyes
no stuffy tired feeling
All in all I think it works, but that was only 1 night.
Now my dad was saying they just bashed most of the ionic air purifiers for letting out "lung damaging levels of ozone" > Related article But most of the articles close with "but in normal application a well ventilated room at 3 feet away is perfectly safe"
Now I understand running it on high in a tiny unventilated room could be not so good, but I run it on medium in my bedroom, which is fairly well ventilated (open door and window) I have not smelled the "ozone smell" supposedly like fresh air after a thunderstorm. I do smell it when the unit is on high and I shove my nose in the vents but I don't do that all the time, :icon32:
So is this another FOX exagerated special "When air purifiers attac" or is this something to actually worry about?
Due to my allergies I bought the Ionic Pro from Outpost. I used it for the first time yesterday and I woke up feeling much better than usual.
No large lump of crud in my throat
No watery eyes
no stuffy tired feeling
All in all I think it works, but that was only 1 night.
Now my dad was saying they just bashed most of the ionic air purifiers for letting out "lung damaging levels of ozone" > Related article But most of the articles close with "but in normal application a well ventilated room at 3 feet away is perfectly safe"
Now I understand running it on high in a tiny unventilated room could be not so good, but I run it on medium in my bedroom, which is fairly well ventilated (open door and window) I have not smelled the "ozone smell" supposedly like fresh air after a thunderstorm. I do smell it when the unit is on high and I shove my nose in the vents but I don't do that all the time, :icon32:
So is this another FOX exagerated special "When air purifiers attac" or is this something to actually worry about?