{"id":7451,"date":"2016-11-14T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trotec-blog.com\/en\/?p=7451"},"modified":"2016-11-14T16:09:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T15:09:59","slug":"poor-air-quality-and-dry-air-are-a-health-hazard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trotec-blog.com\/en\/trotec\/poor-air-quality-and-dry-air-are-a-health-hazard\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor air quality and dry air are a health hazard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dry air in a room is referred to as when the air does not have enough moisture. Sure, people and animals breathe out moisture into the air and plants also create a valuable regulating factor; however the dry heating air in winter directly causes humidity levels to become too low. This situation then creates threatening health risks such as respiratory problems, runny eyes as well as making it difficult to concentrate and the risk of infections also increases.<\/h2>\n

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This is not only because the heating is powering all the time, rather that the incorrect air ratio often leads to a lower humidity level. When a room is ventilated too often, the humid air which has been warmed up by the heating system and enriched with moisture from respiration is exchanged with cold winter air. As cold air cannot absorb as much moisture as warm air, the critical lower level of 40 percent humidity is reached very quickly. This then means that the immune defence system is weakened due to dryer nasal mucous membranes and the risk of catching a cold increases. In particular, babies and children react very sensitively to dry air because their skin and noses dry out more quickly and their airways are more vulnerable.<\/p>\n

Dry air also affects wooden floors and furniture \u2013 they shrink more rapidly and tend to develop cracks more often. Action should be taken when the humidity values are permanently under 30 percent and appropriate counter measures considered before it is too late. It always makes sense to initially measure the humidity in the room, with the BZ05 indoor thermohygrometer<\/a> by Trotec for example.<\/p>\n

The main thing is to stay healthy through the winter heating period<\/h3>\n

From house plants to small water bowls or even automatic air humidifiers, which, depending on the model, vaporise, obfuscate or evaporate, they all offer numerous options. You should also make sure that the moist air created doesn\u2019t also introduce microbes harmful to health into your residential or working rooms. Trotec therefore provides vaporising air humidifiers such as the B 400<\/a> and the B 25 E <\/a>\u2013 two devices with comparably low energy consumption levels. These provide you with moisture for the air in the room via filter mats or plates on which the water is extensively evaporated. This process ensures that microbes remain in the device and will then be disposed of when the unit is cleaned. Also air washers, such as the AW\u00a010\u00a0S<\/a> and the AW\u00a020\u00a0S<\/a> with HEPA filters from Trotec, moisten the air just like the cold evaporation method. Furthermore both devices wash the air regularly and therefore filter out animal hair, house dust and pollen as well as nasty odours.<\/p>\n

Trotec provides solutions \u2013 from air humidifiers to air washing<\/h3>\n