How to Prevent a Cold and Reduce the Spread of Colds and Flu Inside Your Home
Humidity Control and Air Filters
While cold and flu season coincides with cold weather, the proliferation of these airborne viruses has more to do with humidity than temperature. As the air cools outside, we turn our heaters on, which pulls moisture from the air making it drier.
This dry air neutralizes our body's first line of defense against airborne viruses like the cold and flu and can slow our immune response. In properly balanced humidity, our nose's mucous membranes are moistened making it easier for our body to stop airborne viruses from getting into our lungs and making us sick.
Keeping our home's humidity optimally balanced can help in combatting these airborne viruses by improving our body's natural defenses. While balanced humidity exists between 40 and 60%, it's important to remember that outdoor temperature and other home factors will impact what relative humidity level is attainable and recommended for your house. Talk with your AprilAire Healthy Air Professional to learn more.
Using whole-house solutions from AprilAire can help keep your family better protected from cold and flu season especially if you have children since the beginning of flu and cold season also lines up with back-to-school season.
AprilAire Whole-House Solutions Can Help Against Colds and Flu
Airborne viruses, like colds and flu, are transmitted through droplets. These droplets get into the air through sneezing, talking, coughing, singing, crying, and breathing. There's no way of preventing these colds and flu droplets from getting into the air. It's more about what you do with them once they are there.
The AprilAire Healthy Air System® helps prevent colds and flu droplets from infecting other people by controlling humidity, capturing droplets that flow through the air purifier, and adding fresh air ventilation.
- Keeping your home's humidity properly balanced is easy with an AprilAire Whole-House Humidifier thanks to an on-board sensor and digital controls.
- An AprilAire Whole-House Air Purifier outfitted with AprilAire MERV 16 Air Filters captures 98% of airborne viruses that flow through the system.
- An AprilAire Fresh Air Ventilation System exhales bad air filled with airborne contaminants and inhales good air.
Use AprilAire whole-house solutions to improve your body's natural defenses, capture airborne viruses, and inhale good air to keep your family healthy through cold and flu season.
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AprilAire Humidifier Benefits
Add moisture to your home’s air with a humidifier. Low humidity can cause dry eyes, dry throat, bloody noses, and other health problems. They can also save you money on your energy costs.
AprilAire Air Filter Benefits
Air filters are the backbone of every HVAC system. They capture airborne particulates to make sure your system lasts longer and runs more efficiently, and they ensure you're breathing Healthy Air at home.
AprilAire Ventilation Benefits
Dilute stale indoor air in your home. Ventilation systems bring in fresh air from the outside and push out unwanted airborne particulates to create cleaner, fresher, and healthier indoor air.
Related Health Topics to Colds and Flu
Allergies | Healthy Air System | Scratchy Throat | Airborne Bacteria | Airborne Viruses
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