Air Cleaner for Asthma Week

Clean living and breathing

National Asthma Week is coming (October 12 to 18) making now the ideal time to spring clean your home to improve your health.

Keeping your home clean and healthy can be a challenge. With pollution seeping in from outside combined with chemicals from cleaning fluids, pet hair, cigarette smoke and dust-mites, it's no wonder Australia shares the highest asthma rate in the world with three other countries*.

It's not just floors, windows and shelves that need to be vacuumed and dusted regularly - indoor air also needs to be cleaned to help reduce allergy and asthma triggers.

Clean air means healthier living for everyone, whether you suffer from respiratory allergies or not. Being pro-active about keeping your living or work environment healthy is simple and can make a huge difference.

A few ideas that may help make life less sneezy include:

• introducing indoor plants
• dusting with a damp cloth
• reducing the use of chemical cleaning products
• vacuuming regularly
• using an air cleaner like the Sunbeam Therapeutics Air Cleaner with HEPA Filter

The Sunbeam Therapeutics Air Cleaner with HEPA Filter uses a three-stage cleaning process to clean and freshen indoor air quietly, efficiently and economically. The hospital grade HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Air Cleaning) filter captures up to 99.97% of particles as small as 0.3 microns including dust, pollen, cigarette smoke and bacteria.

Available in two sizes the Air Cleaner is designed to filter the air in a 3 x 4 metre room, for example a bedroom, five times per hour, and six times per hour in a larger living room that is 4 x 4.5 metres.

The Sunbeam Therapeutics collection is available from department stores and electrical retailers nationally.

Model No. AC7500 - RRP $159.95
Model No. AC8800 - RRP $199.95

Consumer enquiries: 1 800 025 059

Another option is to tackle Asthma from the inside with chiropractic help: CLICK HERE!

"Antibiotics link to allergies, asthma"
Schoolchildren are more likely to have allergies and asthma if treated with antibiotics as babies, a US study presented at the European Respiratory Society conference in Vienna said.
If children were given antibiotics in their first six months, their chances of having allergies by school age increased 1.5 times, rising by 2.5 times for asthma, according to research by Christine Cole Johnson, of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital.
Asthma experts in Australia said the research added credence to the idea that babies' immune systems needed germ contact for proper development.
"There is evidence that exposure to infections in the early years of life may be protective for the development of allergic diseases." said the head of The Alfred hospital's asthma and allergy service Jo Douglass..........

Extracted from: Beaumont L. Antibiotics link to allergies, asthma. The Age, Melbourne 1st Oct 2003, pp8.