Let's Clear the Air

Take a Deep Breath

The Environmental Protection Agency has identified indoor air quality as one of the TOP FIVE most urgent environmental risks to public health – and, if that didn’t make you gasp,  it has revealed that levels of air pollution inside the home can be TWO TO FIVE TIMES HIGHER — and occasionally up to A HUNDRED times higher — than outdoor levels. Read here.

Ozone producing air purifiers are bad, and banned in some states.

So, to save you time, if you don’t want to do hours of your own research, just buy a no-ozone producing  Austin Air air purifier. Gosh, get several. You can buy them in Pink and Blue (among other colours), and you won’t need to change the filter for 5 years.  

(Off topic: I placed a few vintage luggage stickers on my Austin, to blend it into the baby room.)

Even if you have an air filter, it is CRITICAL that even in the dead of winter (and being from Chicago, I know from the dead of winter), that you AIR OUT your baby room at LEAST once a day.  Make like Queen Victoria at Balmoral and VENTILATE. (Obviously, take your wee one to a warm room whilst this regal process is going on.) More from the exciting EPA on ventilation, health and indoor air quality here.

Can’t sleep? Read the full report.

Lesson #4: The air in your home is polluted, (unless you are reading this from the Alps). Get a no-ozone producing air purifier. Stickers will make it cuter.