Are you sure you are breathing good indoor air?

“Go out and get some fresh air” - My mum used to tell me that when I was growing up. And now I know what she said was right. A recent study shows that indoor air is 2-5x more polluted than outdoor. The same walls, doors and windows that protect buildings from the harmful elements could be an entryway for unwanted air pollutants and eventually affect your health. Moreover, we spend more than 90% of our time indoors.

What causes poor indoor air quality?
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, one of the primary causes of indoor air problems are volatile organic compounds (VOCs) which are emitted as gases from common household products. For instance, paints and coatings, glue, dishwashing liquid and so on. All of these products can release organic compounds while you are using them, and when they are stored. In addition, inadequate ventilation can aggravate the situation by not bringing enough fresh air in or by not carrying pollutants out.

With these pollutants lingering around your house, it may affect you and your family health including eye, nose and throat irritation, headaches and the risk of damage to liver and kidney. The impact to our health can be immediate or slowly developed over the span of years.

Let’s take a look at a common scenario in our daily life. Everyday, there are endless activities going on in an indoor environment at home. As a family, we have meals together, we have daily conversations with one another, and sometimes when one of us gets sick, we’ll call it a day and rest at home. All these activities include the simple act of breathing, talking, coughing or sneezing, and will easily emit pathogens in tiny droplets into the air. These pathogens do not evaporate in the air and disappear but they can land on surfaces or be inhaled by other family members or guests in the same enclosed space or crowded places without good ventilation and so on. Hence, the transmission of airborne particles could affect more than one person.

What are the benefits of having good indoor air quality?
There is no doubt that the air quality that we breathe in daily can have a real impact on our health and wellbeing. Hence, by addressing the bad indoor air quality, you may reap the benefits such as:

1. Reduction of the risk of airborne transmission
2. Improves quality of sleep
3. Removes unpleasant smell

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This content is provided by Rentokil Initial (M) Sdn Bhd.

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