Air ducts are supposed to maintain good indoor air quality. What if it does the total opposite and pollutes the indoor environment?
While your home is supposed to be a place where you feel safe and comfortable, did you know that it can become more polluted than the outdoor environment and actually make you sick? One reason for an unhealthy indoor environment is dirty air ducts.
Air ducts are like your home’s lungs that inhale the air around them and circulate it around your home. Procrastinating on cleaning the air ducts means dust and dirt will accumulate on them. On top of that, if exposed to moisture, the air ducts may develop mold growth. Also, unwanted insects and pests may infest the surfaces of your air ducts. If this happens, the air ducts will circulate dirty air, spoiling the indoor air quality that you and your family breathe in.
Here are some ways dirty air ducts can make you sick:
Make You Feel Unwell and Tired
When you’re exposed to unhealthy air released from dirty air ducts, your immune system fights the bacteria and creates anti-bodies for recovery. As a side-effect, you might feel tired and unwell at home.
Catch Flu
As the viruses and bacteria are floating through the air inside your home, you can easily catch a common cold or flu and experience all its symptoms.
Sinus Infection
The same bacteria that cause flu can also cause a sinus infection.
Mounting Stress
Dirty air ducts greatly obstruct the home cleaning process. Instead of regulating the indoor air quality, dirty air ducts only circulate the dust around different areas in your home. As a result, you’ll keep cleaning surfaces, only to find out that the dust settled again on those surfaces after some time. Repeated cleaning leads to mounting stress, which again affects your health.
Development of Respiratory Diseases
Poor indoor air quality can cause upper respiratory infections, which can lead to coughing, sore throat, a runny nose, sneezing, headaches, nasal congestion, and mild fever. If you don’t act to improve the indoor air quality by cleaning the air ducts, these problems can exacerbate into lower respiratory infections such as pneumonia or bronchitis.
Speeds Up the Aging Process
When you don’t clean air ducts for months, you and your family end up inhaling contaminated air. You might feel tired from to time. If you don’t address the problem, the poor air quality speeds up your aging process over time.
Worsens Certain Health Conditions
Allergens rising from dirty air ducts prove more dangerous for people with pre-existing medical conditions such as allergies or asthma. Polluted indoor air makes them vulnerable to increased attacks, deteriorating their health.
On the other hand, evidence suggests that people with pulmonary health conditions experienced improvements in their conditions when the air ducts in their living space were regularly cleaned.
To improve the quality of indoor air, seek professional help by contacting S.T.O.P, which serves in North Las Vegas, Henderson, Boulder City, Summerlin,and many other areas.
To request emergency cleaning services, dial now on 702-803-3094.
